Oyesade Olatoye

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Oyesade Olatoye
Personal information
Full nameOyesade Olatoye
NicknameSade
Born (1997-01-25) 25 January 1997 (age 27)
Cleveland, Ohio
Education Ohio State University
Height6 ft (182.88 cm)
Sport
Sport Athletics
Event(s) Shot put, hammer throw
College team Ohio State Buckeyes [1]
Medal record
Women's athletics
Representing Flag of Nigeria.svg  Nigeria
African Games
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2023 Accra Shot put
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg2023 Accra Hammer throw
African Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2022 Saint Pierre Hammer throw

Oyesade "Sade" Olatoye (born 25 January 1997) is a Nigerian athlete competing in the shot put and hammer throw. [2] She represented the United States in 2016 at the IAAF World U20 Championships ion 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. [3]

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Personal bests

Outdoor

Indoor

EventTime/MarkVenueDateNotes
Weight throw24.46 m Birmingham, AL, U.S.March 9, 2019NCAA Champion, #3 All-time in the NCAA Weight list
Weight throw25.32 m Birmingham, AL, U.S.February 10, 2023 NR, #1 All-time
Shot Put (ind)17.88 m Big Ten Ch., Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.February 23, 20191st place, B1G Champion
Hammer throw69.89 m Jesse Owens Invitational, Jesse Owens Stadium, Columbus, OH, U.S.April 30, 2021 NR
Shot put (out)17.88 m NCAA Div. I Outdoor Championships, Austin, TX,U.S.June 6, 2019
Discus throw56.68 m Big Ten Invite #3, Billy Hayes T& F Complex, Bloomington, IN, U.S.April 16, 2021

International competition

YearCompetitionVenuePositionEventNotes
Representing the Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States
2016 World U20 Championships Bydgoszcz, Poland 15th (q)Hammer throw 58.52 m
Representing Flag of Nigeria.svg  Nigeria
2019 African Games Rabat, Morocco DQShot put 16.61 m
DQHammer throw 63.97 m
World Championships Doha, Qatar 26th (q)Shot put 16.97 m
2022 African Championships Port Louis, Mauritius 1stHammer 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 2ndShot put 16.61 m
3rdHammer throw 68.92 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. 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 Bachelor of Science degree 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 the Columbus suburb of Dublin, 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, OH. Olatoye was not only District Champion several times but she is also 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 U.S. in the girl's discus and No. 8 in the shot put as a senior in 2015.

The Ohio State University

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References

  1. "College bio" . Retrieved 8 October 2019.
  2. Oyesade Olatoye at World Athletics OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
  3. "2019 African Games – Athletics – Results Book" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 September 2019. Retrieved 7 September 2019.