Richie Patterson

Today Richie Patterson came in to our school to talk to us about his life. He is a weightlifter he was born in Manukau NZ on a farm. He went to high school at Auckland Grammar school. In high school he played rugby and he said to him self 'I need to get stronger' so at the age of 14 he started doing weightlifting. He went to four Commonwealth games and three Olympics. He got a gold and one silver in the commonwealth games.  The main point that he came is to tell us that it is okay to fail but you have to learn from it and not make that mistake again.