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Nickname | Sade | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | American, Nigerian | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Cleveland, Ohio, U.S. | 25 January 1997||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Education | Ohio State University | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in) [1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | Nigeria | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event(s) | Shot put, hammer throw | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
College team | Ohio State Buckeyes [2] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Oyesade "Sade" Olatoye (born 25 January 1997) is an athlete competing in the shot put and hammer throw. [3] Born in the United States, she represents Nigeria internationally. She competed for her country of birth in 2016 at the IAAF World U20 Championships in Bydgoszcz, Poland. She switched allegiance from the United States to Nigeria in 2019. She represented Nigeria in the shot put at the 2019 World Championships in Doha, Qatar. Earlier that year, she won two medals at the 2019 African Games. [4]
Outdoor
Indoor
Event | Time/Mark | Venue | Date | Notes |
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Weight throw | 24.46 m | Birmingham, Alabama, U.S. | 9 March 2019 | NCAA Champion, #3 All-time in the NCAA Weight list |
Weight throw | 25.32 m | Birmingham, Alabama, U.S. | 10 February 2023 | NR, #1 All-time |
Shot Put (ind) | 17.88 m | Big Ten Ch., Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S. | 23 February 2019 | 1st place, B1G Champion |
Hammer throw | 69.89 m | Jesse Owens Invitational, Jesse Owens Stadium, Columbus, Ohio, U.S. | 30 April 2021 | NR |
Shot put (out) | 17.88 m | NCAA Div. I Outdoor Championships, Austin, Texas,U.S. | 6 June 2019 | |
Discus throw | 56.68 m | Big Ten Invite #3, Billy Hayes T& F Complex, Bloomington, Indiana, U.S. | 16 April 2021 |
Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Event | Notes |
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Representing the United States | |||||
2016 | World U20 Championships | Bydgoszcz, Poland | 15th (q) | Hammer throw | 58.52 m |
Representing Nigeria | |||||
2019 | African Games | Rabat, Morocco | DQ | Shot put | |
DQ | Hammer throw | | |||
World Championships | Doha, Qatar | 26th (q) | Shot put | 16.97 m | |
2022 | African Championships | Port Louis, Mauritius | 1st | Hammer throw | 63.67 m |
World Championships | Eugene, United States | 27th (q) | Hammer throw | 65.71 m | |
2023 | World Championships | Budapest, Hungary | 30th (q) | Hammer throw | 66.92 m |
2024 | African Games | Accra, Ghana | 2nd | Shot put | 16.61 m |
3rd | Hammer throw | 68.92 m | |||
African Championships | Douala, Cameroon | 2nd | Hammer throw | 67.72 m | |
2024 | Olympic Games | Paris, France | 29th (q) | Hammer throw | 66.41 m |
Born to Oye and Ade Olatoye. Her parents are Nigerians from Ekiti State. She has three older siblings, Bisi, Femi And Deji Olatoye. Sade grew up in Ohio but visited Nigeria very frequently, during her childhood, to see her family. Coming from an athletically and academically gifted family, Olatoye excelled throughout her entire collegiate career on and off the field. She graduated from the School of Health and Rehabilitation sciences at the Ohio State University in Spring 2020 with a BSc in health and rehabilitation sciences. She pursued her master's degree at Ohio State during her last collegiate year of athletics, with a degree in bioethics through the College of Medicine. She completed her master's degree in the spring of 2023.
Olatoye grew up in University Heights, Ohio a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio, concentrating mainly on basketball, only starting to participate in track and field in the seventh grade. She starred in both sports at Dublin Coffman High School. Though sidelined for 1/2 of her senior year by a torn ACL, she was an all-state basketball player while scoring and having over 1000 points and rebounds in her career. She holds her high school records in the shot put and discus and won 4 state individual championships in track and field. Olatoye was a scholarship athlete at the Ohio State University (OSU), starting her college career in 2016 as a track and field athlete.
Olatoye attended Dublin Coffman High School in Dublin, Ohio. Olatoye was district champion several times and a three-time OHSAA Division I state outdoor champion (shot put, 2014–15 and discus, 2014), 2015 state runner-up in the discus, runner-up in the shot put at the 2013 OHSAA Championships and third as a freshman in 2012, fourth place in the discus and 14th in the shot put at the 2015 New Balance Outdoor Nationals, Ranked No. 7 in US in the girl's discus and No. 8 in the shot put as a senior in 2015.
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