Princess Kara
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| Born | 2 June 2000 | ||||||||
| Education | Central Arizona College | ||||||||
| Sport | |||||||||
| Country | Nigeria | ||||||||
| Sport | Discus throwing | ||||||||
| Achievements and titles | |||||||||
| Regional finals | 2019 African Under 20 Champion | ||||||||
| Personal best | 50.07 m (164 ft 3+1⁄4 in) | ||||||||
Medal record
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Princess Kara (born 2000) is a Nigerian discus thrower. She won both the National Championships and the African Under 20 Championships in 2019. Her personal best is 50.07 m (164 ft 3+1⁄4 in).
Career
[edit]Kara participated in the 2016 National Youth Games and has also competed in the triple jump and shot put.[1]
Kara won gold in discus throwing at the 2018 National Sports Festival (NSF) in Abuja.[2] In 2019, she won both the national Under 20 Championships and the African Under 20 Championships, starting to challenge Chinwe Okoro and Chioma Onyekwere for the number one position in Nigeria.[1][3] At the Under 20 African Championships (held in Abidjan), she recorded a personal best of 50.04 m (164 ft 2 in), which beat her previous highest score by over five metres.[4] She then set a new personal best of 50.07 m (164 ft 3+1⁄4 in) at the qualifying trials for the 2019 All Africa Games, later coming fifth at the games with a throw of 49.85 m (163 ft 6+1⁄2 in). She also won the 2019 National Championships.[1]
She competed for Central Arizona College, where she won consecutive NJCAA Division I Outdoor discus titles in 2021 and 2022.[5][6]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Princess Kara at World Athletics
- ^ Modupe, Oremule (26 June 2019). "I'm aiming for World Championship standards in discus – Kara". NNN NEWS NIGERIA. Retrieved 10 May 2020.
- ^ Maduewesi, Christopher (29 December 2018). "Nigeria's 10 Breakout Athletes in 2018 (Part 1)". MAKING OF CHAMPIONS. Retrieved 10 May 2020.
- ^ Ayodeji, Ayodeji (19 April 2019). "Princess Kara clocks PB to claim Discus Gold as Team Nigeria win five medals on Day 3 of CAA U18 & U20 Champs". Save Nigeria Sport. Retrieved 10 May 2020.
- ^ Petruska, Ed (14 May 2021). "Discus Princess: CAC's Kara wins national title". Casa Grande Dispatch. Retrieved 16 June 2022.
- ^ Petruska, Ed (23 May 2022). "Kara has record breaking showing at nationals for CAC". Casa Grande Dispatch. Retrieved 16 June 2022.
