Nicola Tuthill

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Nicola Tuthill
Personal information
Born (2003-12-22) 22 December 2003 (age 21)
Sport
Sport Athletics
Event Hammer throw
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)Hammer: 71.71m (Lahti, 2025)
Medal record
Women's athletics
Representing Flag of Ireland.svg  Ireland
European U23 Championships
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2025 Bergen Hammer throw
European Throwing Cup
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2025 Nicosia U23 Hammer throw
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2023 Leiria U23 Hammer throw
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2024 Leiria U23 Hammer throw
Summer World University Games
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2025 Bochum Hammer throw

Nicola Tuthill (born 22 December 2003) is an Irish hammer thrower. She is a multiple-time national champion. [1]

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Early life

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]

Career

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]

References

  1. "Nicola Tuthill". World Athletics.
  2. 1 2 3 4 O'Riordan, Ian (7 July 2023). "Nicola Tuthill: following in famous throwing steps from inside the hammer cage". The Irish Times . Retrieved 10 July 2024.
  3. 1 2 "Cork hammer thrower Nicola Tuthill impresses in first senior final at European Championships". Echo Live. 10 June 2024. Retrieved 10 July 2024.
  4. 1 2 3 4 McCarthy, Kieran (10 June 2024). "Getting to know European hammer throw finalist Nicola Tuthill". Southernstar. Retrieved 10 July 2024.
  5. Fisher, Grace (6 April 2024). "NICOLA TUTHILL EXTENDS OWN IRISH U23 HAMMER THROW RECORD". Her Sport. Retrieved 10 July 2024.
  6. McCarthy, Kieran (30 May 2024). "Nicola Tuthill's new hammer PB opens door to Europeans and, possibly, Olympic Games". Southernstar. Retrieved 10 July 2024.
  7. "P-T-S Meet". World Athletics. 24 May 2024. Retrieved 10 July 2024.
  8. "Women's Hammer Throw Results - Paris Olympic Games 2024 Athletics". Watch Athletics. 6 August 2024. Retrieved 28 December 2024.
  9. "Cork City Sports: Nicola Tuthill showcases Olympic quality, Phil Healy records season's best". Irish Examiner. 9 July 2024. Retrieved 10 July 2024.
  10. Dennehy, Cathal (16 March 2025). "Nicola Tuthill lands U-23 gold at European Throwing Cup while Mark English and Cian McPhillips ruled out of World Indoors". Independent.ie. Retrieved 16 March 2025.
  11. "Eurorpean Athletics Team Championships". World Athletics. 28 June 2025. Retrieved 17 July 2025.
  12. Dennehy, Cathal (27 June 2025). "Ireland gear up for European Athletics Team Championships in Slovenia". Independent.ie. Retrieved 28 June 2025.
  13. Dennehy, Cathal (9 July 2025). "Nicola Tuthill throws career second, and Reece Ademola 'delighted' with long jump display at Cork City Sports". Independent.ie. Retrieved 17 July 2025.
  14. Dennehy, Cathal (18 July 2025). "Anika Thompson strikes gold as Nicola Tuthill wins silver at European U-23 Championships". Independent.ie. Retrieved 19 July 2025.
  15. Dennehy, Cathal. "Another Irish medal at World University Games as 'delighted' Nicola Tuthill takes silver in hammer". Independent.ie. Retrieved 27 July 2025.