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Sade Olatoye threw a massive lifetime best over the 70m mark, joining an elite club in the women's hammer throw event.
African champion in the women's hammer throw Sade Olatoye has joined an elite league of world throwers to go beyond the 70m mark in the event.
Olatoye launched her implement to a massive Personal Best (PB) of 70.86m for a memorable win at the Oklahoma Throws Series this past Saturday.
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By doing this, the newly crowned Nigerian champion obliterated her previous lifetime best of 69.89m and became the second female thrower from the country to go over the 70m mark.
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16:30 - 18.07.2023
Chioma Onyekwere rediscovers 60m form as Nigerian throwers dominate Canada meets
Nigeria's trio of Chioma Onyekwere, Obiageri Amaechi, Ashley Anumba, and Sade Olatoye gave impressive performances in their Canada meets, recording their best performances this season.
Her new record would have been a national record but for Annette Echikunwoke's 75.49m set while still representing Nigeria in 2022, before she switched allegiance to the USA.
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19:57 - 11.07.2023
E choke! 2 athletes who abandoned Nigeria for USA fail to qualify for World Championships
Annette Echikunwoke and Ezinne Abba dumped Nigeria to represent USA internationally, but now have failed to make the US team to the World Championships in Budapest.
Notwithstanding, Olatoye will cherish her performance as it puts her in a good position and builds her confidence of peaking at the right time ahead of the World Championships in Budapest next month.
There she'll hope to replicate a better 70m throw, which may guarantee her a spot in the final and become the first Nigerian athlete in history to achieve such a feat.
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Meanwhile, in the women's Discus Obiageri Amaechi finished in second place with a throw of 56.76m at the same meet.
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