Funmi Oduwaiye

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Funmi Oduwaiye
Personal information
Birth nameOluwafunmilola Oduwaiye
NationalityBritish
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]

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Early life

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]

Career

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]

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