Rhema Otabor

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Rhema Otabor
Rhema Otabor Paris2024.jpg
Personal information
Nationality Bahamas
Born (2002-12-03) 3 December 2002 (age 21)
Sport
Sport Athletics
Event Javelin
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)Javelin: 64.19 (Eugene, 2024)
Medal record
Women's Athletics
Representing Flag of the Bahamas.svg  Bahamas
Pan American Games
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2023 Santiago Javelin throw
NACAC Championships
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2022 Freeport Javelin throw
NACAC U23 Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2023 San Jose Javelin
NACAC U20 Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2021 San Jose Javelin

Rhema Otabor (born 3 December 2002) is a javelin thrower from the Bahamas. [1]

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Early life

From Nassau, Bahamas, she attended Florida International University and University of Nebraska in the United States. [2] [3]

Career

She won gold representing Bahamas at the 2021 NACAC U20 Championships in San Jose, Costa Rica with a personal best of 55.06m. in August 2021, she finished fourth at the 2021 World Athletics U20 Championships in Nairobi, where set a new Bahamian junior national record and a personal best with a throw of 55.08 metres. [3]

She won bronze at the senior 2022 NACAC Championships in Freeport, Bahamas in August 2022 with a throw of 57.91 metres. [4] In June 2023, she won the NCAA Championship Division 1 javelin competition in Austin, Texas. [5]

She won gold at the 2023 NACAC U23 Championships in San Jose, Costa Rica in July 2023, and threw a personal best 59.75m at the Bahamas National Championships. She competed at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest but did not qualify for the final. [6] [7] She was a silver medalist at the 2023 Pan American Games in Santiago in October 2023. [8]

She set a new personal best of 64.19 to win the 2024 NCAA Championships in Eugene, Oregon. [9] It also broke the collegiate javelin record of 62.19m set in 2016 by Maggie Malone. [10] She competed in the javelin at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris in August 2024. [11]

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References

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