Oyesade Olatoye

Oyesade Olatoye

Oyesade wins bronze at African Games
Personal information
Nickname	Sade
Nationality	American, Nigerian
Born	(1997-01-25) 25 January 1997 (age 28) Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.
Education	Ohio State University
Height	1.82 m (6 ft 0 in) [1]
Sport
Country	Nigeria
Sport	Athletics
Event(s)	Shot put, hammer throw
College team	Ohio State Buckeyes [2]
Medal record Women's athletics Representing   Nigeria African Games 2023 Accra Shot put 2023 Accra Hammer throw African Championships 2022 Saint Pierre Hammer throw 2024 Douala Hammer throw

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]

Oyesade pose with the Nigerian flag at the 2023 African Games in Accra, Ghana.

Personal bests

Outdoor

• Shot put – 17.88 (Austin 2019)
• Discus throw – 56.68 (Bloomington 2021)
• Hammer throw – 69.89 (Columbus 2021)
• Weight throw – 25.32 (Nashville 2023)

Indoor

• Shot put – 17.88 (Ann Arbor 2019)

Event	Time/Mark	Venue	Date	Notes
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

International competition

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Notes
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	16.61 m
			DQ	Hammer throw	63.97 m
	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
2025	World Championships	Tokyo, Japan	21st (q)	Hammer throw	68.82 m

Personal

Born to Oye and Ade Olatoye. Her parents are Nigerians from Ekiti State. She has three older siblings, Bisi, Femi And Deji Olatoye. ^[5] 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.

Early life and development

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.

Career

Pre-collegiate

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.

References

1. "OLATOYE Oyesade".
2. "College bio" . Retrieved 8 October 2019.
3. Oyesade Olatoye at World Athletics
4. "2019 African Games – Athletics – Results Book" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 September 2019. Retrieved 7 September 2019.
5. Ekpenyong, Okon (23 August 2024). "Olympian Sade Olatoye: A Story of Resilience and Faith".