Alex Rose made his first global championship in 2013. Alex Rose made his first global final in 2022. Alex Rose won his first global medal in 2025. In those 12 years, there were times he was close to retirement, especially when he picked up a full-time job in 2018 and couldn't see a way to balance his two careers. But he stayed the course, getting closer and closer to this ultimate goal in 2022, 2023 and 2024.

Coming back from a knee surgery last fall, this season wasn't supposed to be anything special. And then he got the World standard in July. And then he had one of the best training blocks of his life leading into the World Championships. And then he threw 65 meters in qualifying. And then, in a rainy, dangerous, random World final, he threw 66.96 meters in Round 5. He won Samoa's first ever global medal in track and field, reaching a global podium that seemed out of reach for so long.

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