Personal information | |
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Birth name | Oluwafunmilola Oduwaiye |
Nationality | British |
Sport | |
Sport | Athletics |
Disability class | F64 |
Event(s) | Shot put, Discus |
Achievements and titles | |
Personal best(s) | Shot put: 11.03m (Paris, 2023) Discus: 33.23m (Cardiff, 2022) |
Oluwafunmilola Oduwaiye is a British para-athlete who competes in the Shot put and Discus.[1]
From Cardiff,[2] she was 11 years old when she joined Cardiff Met Archers basketball side. In 2019, she represented Wales at the Under-18 European Basketball Championships in Moldova and was named one of the players of the tournament.[3]
She took up para-athletics in 2022, following multiple surgeries to her legs. An initial surgery to try to correct Genu valgum resulted in a damaged artery, with subsequent surgeries unsuccessful.[4][5] She was left paralysed in her right leg from the knee down.[6]
Competing at the Welsh Athletics Championships, she threw a new personal best in the shot put of 11.03 metres. That day, she also threw 32.26 metres in the discus.[7] In July 2023, she made her World Para Athletics Championships debut in Paris.[8] She finished sixth in the F64 discus and fourth in the F64 shot put.[9][10]
In March 2024, she was announced as a subject of a Channel 4 documentary detailing athletes in the run-up to the 2024 Paris Olympics, along with other athletes and para-athletes such as Keely Hodgkinson, Hannah Cockroft and Jake Wightman.[11]