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| Born | 22 December 2003 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event | Hammer throw | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Personal best(s) | Hammer: 71.71m (Lahti, 2025) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Nicola Tuthill (born 22 December 2003) is an Irish hammer thrower. She is a multiple-time national champion and world finalist. [1]
She is from Kilbrittain, near Bandon, County Cork, where her parents Norman and Collette run a dairy farm. She has an older sister, Olivia. Her father built her a throwing cage and circle on their farm in 2019. She studies biological, biomedical and biomolecular science at University College Dublin. [2] [3] [4]
She won her first Irish senior hammer title in 2020 with a best of 60.04m, aged just 16 years-old, a new Irish U18 record. [2] [4]
She qualified for the final at the World Athletics U20 Championships in Cali, Colombia, finishing in eighth place. [2] [4]
Competing at her first senior international contortion for Ireland, she finished second in the 2023 European Team Championships in Silesia in Poland, throwing a lifetime best of 67.85m. This placed her second on the Irish senior all-time list behind national record holder Eileen O'Keeffe. She won the Irish under-23 title in Tullamore, Co Offaly, setting a championship record 64.89m. [2] She was the 2023 Athletics Ireland University Athlete of the Year. [4]
Competing at the Irish Universities Track and Field Championships in April 2024, Tuthill took victory with a new Irish U23 record throw of 68.65m. [5] She threw a new personal best of 70.32 metres in Banská Bystrica in May 2024. [6] [7] She finished ninth in her first major final at the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome, having thrown a distance of 69.85 to rank seventh best qualifier for the final. [3]
In July 2024, she qualified by ranking and competed in the hammer throw at the 2024 Paris Olympics. [8] [9]
In March 2025, she won the gold medal in the U23 hammer throw at the European Throwing Cup in Nicosia. [10] She was selected for the 2025 European Athletics Team Championships Second Division in Maribor in June 2025, finishing third overall with a throw of 70.50 metres. [11] [12] That month, she threw an Irish U-23 record of 71.71m in Finland and the following month backed that up by throwing 70.65 metres in Cork. [13] She won a silver medal at the 2025 European Athletics U23 Championships in Bergen, Norway on 18 July. [14] The following week, she won another silver medal with a throw of 69.98 metres at the 2025 World University Games in Germany. [15] She was named in the Irish team for the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan. [16]
