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Madeleine Elsie Chapman (born 16 March 1994)[2] is a New Zealand editor, journalist and author, and the current editor of The Spinoff and former editor of North & South. Chapman co-wrote the autobiography of New Zealand professional basketball player Steven Adams, and in 2020 a biography of the Prime Minister of New Zealand, Jacinda Ardern.

Madeleine Chapman
Chapman in 2021
Born	(1994-03-16) 16 March 1994 (age 28)[1] Wellington, New Zealand[2]
Occupation	Editor, author, journalist, cricketer, javelin thrower
Organisation(s)	The Spinoff, North & South
Sports career
Event(s)	Javelin throw
Sports achievements and titles
National finals	Javelin champion (2013, 2017)
Personal best(s)	50.98 m (2017)
Cricket information
Batting	Right-handed
Bowling	Right-arm medium[3]
Role	Batter
International information
National side	Samoa (2012–2014)
Domestic team information
Years	Team
2010/11–2012/13	Wellington Blaze

Chapman is a former athlete, competing as a member of the Samoa women's national cricket team and as a New Zealand domestic champion javelin thrower.[4]

Biography

Early life

Chapman grew up in the Wellington Region.[5] Her father was born and raised in Lincoln, Nebraska, while her mother grew up on Upolu in Samoa.[6] Chapman has Tuvaluan heritage through her maternal grandfather, and Chinese heritage through her great-grandfather.[6] Chapman has nine siblings, and was an avid reader as a child.[6][7]

Chapman received a scholarship to attend Samuel Marsden Collegiate School in Wellington, where she competed in basketball, athletics and cricket events.[7][8][9] In 2011 she won the Norwood Award for Outstanding Girls Under 20 player of the year,[10] and was also named the College Sport Wellington women's Cricket Player of the Year.[11]

Sporting career

From 2010 to 2013, Chapman played cricket professionally for the Wellington Blaze.[12][13][14][2] In 2012, Chapman joined the Samoa women's national cricket team, playing seven rounds in the 2012 Pepsi ICC East Asia Pacific Women's Trophy and topping the batting leader board for the competition.[15][16] Chapman continued to compete for Samoa until 2014.[17]

Representing Auckland-based North Harbour Bays Athletics, Chapman first competed in New Zealand athletics competitions as a javelin thrower in 2013.[1][18] She attended the New Zealand Athletics Championships in 2013, winning two gold medals for the javelin throw.[1] In 2014, Chapman quit athletics due to an injury.[19]

Chapman returned to athletics competitions in late 2016 and 2017.[1] At the Porritt Classic in 2017, Chapman was the champion women's javelin thrower (49.18 m).[20] At the 2017 New Zealand national championships, Chapman won a gold medal with a career best javelin throw of 50.98 metres,[1] outcompeting national champion Tori Peeters at the competition.[21] As of 2022, this ranks Chapman fourth in the list of record holders for New Zealand Women's javelin throw.[22]

Media career

Chapman received a scholarship to attend the University of Auckland, where she studied education.[6][7] While at university, Chapman wrote as a film critic for Craccum, the Auckland University Students' Association magazine.[23][24]

In 2016, Chapman became a staff writer for online magazine The Spinoff,[7] beginning as an intern.[25] In the same year, Chapman was asked to ghostwrite New Zealand professional basketball player Steven Adams' autobiography, which was published in 2018.[26] Chapman had known Adams since childhood, as both had played in Wellington regional high school basketball competitions.[26]

While at The Spinoff, Chapman appeared on Three infotainment television programme The Spinoff TV (2018),[6] and has written and directed Scratched: Aotearoa’s Lost Sporting Legends (2019 onwards), an NZ On Air-funded documentary webseries.[27] In 2018, Chapman won the Young Business Journalist of the Year award at the New Zealand Shareholders' Association's 2018 Business Journalism Awards,[28] and the best opinion writer (humour/satire) award at the 2019 Voyager Media Awards.[29] Some of Chapman's most known works include pieces on housing unaffordability,[30] sleep inertia aiding lamps,[31] and ranking lists of snack foods such as biscuits and lollies.[32] Her 2018 article exposing false country of origin practices by Denise L'Estrange-Corbet's fashion label World won the award for best (single) news story / scoop at the 2019 Voyager Media Awards.[33]

Chapman left The Spinoff as a writer in early 2020, taking a break from journalism.[25] During the same year, Chapman released A New Kind of Leader, a biography of New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern she was commissioned to write in 2019.[34][35] When print magazine North & South was relaunched in late 2020, Chapman became the publication's senior editor.[36] In late 2021, Chapman became the co-editor of The Spinoff, alongside long time Spinoff staff writer Alex Casey.[37][38]

Bibliography

• Adams, Steven; Chapman, Madeleine (2018). My Life, My Fight. Auckland: Penguin. ISBN 9781525285318. OCLC 1057771816.
• Chapman, Madeleine (2020). Jacinda Ardern: A New Kind of Leader. Black Inc. ISBN 9781760641818. OCLC 1222806027.

Achievements

Javelin throw

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Notes
2013	New Zealand Athletics Championships - Senior Women	Auckland, New Zealand	1st	47.63 m
2013	New Zealand Athletics Championships - Women Under 20	Auckland, New Zealand	1st	45.89 m
2017	New Zealand Athletics Championships – Open Women	Hamilton, New Zealand	1st	50.98 m

References

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