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| Born | March 3, 1999 Westlake, Ohio, U.S. | ||||||||||||||
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| Country | United States | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
| Event | Shot put | ||||||||||||||
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| Personal best(s) | Shot put: 19.64m (Eugene, 2022) | ||||||||||||||
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Adelaide Aquilla (pronounced ah-quill-ah, born March 3, 1999) is an American athlete who specialises in the shot put. [1]
From Westlake, Ohio, she attended Magnificat High School before attending Ohio State University where she was coached by Ashley Kovacs, wife of Olympian shot putter Joe Kovacs. [2]
Aquilla was a 2019 NCAA outdoor qualifier in the shot put and finished 12th with a personal best outdoor toss of 16.59m to earn second-team All-America honors. In 2021 she was successful in defending the title of Big Ten Conference indoor shot put champion, winning at the 2020 meet with a personal best toss of 17.82 meters, and in 2021 she set another personal best with a throw of 19.12m. She was a 2020 NCAA indoor All-American in the shot with the nation’s third-longest throw. In 2021 Aquilla won both indoor and outdoor NCAA titles and she was named Ohio State’s female athlete of the year alongside Justin Fields as her male counterpart. [3] [4] [5]
On June 24, 2021 Aquilla finished in third place at the US Olympic trails to secure a place at the delayed 2020 Summer Olympics with a throw of 18.95m in Eugene, Oregon behind Raven Saunders and Jessica Ramsey. [6]
Aquilla won additional NCAA championships at the Outdoor Track and Field Championships in 2022 and the Indoor Track and Field Championships in 2023, setting a collegiate record with a throw of 19.64 meters in the former. [7]
In November 2023, Aquila won a bronze medal in the shot put at the Pan American games held in Santiago, Chile. [8]
She finished sixth in the shot put at the 2024 Diamond League event 2024 Meeting International Mohammed VI d'Athlétisme in Rabat. [9]
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