Meet world record holder, Onye Lauritta (age 40), a Nigerian Paralympian athlete s
hot-putter.
Onye Lauritta is a two-time world championships medalist and two-time paralympic medalist.
Her world opened up in 2011 when her event was included at the All Africa Games in Maputo, this time for real. She attended and finished with silver in shot put.
Fired on from there, she trained for the 2015 African Championships where she hit gold in shot put, with a world record of 7.59 metres, and silver in discus throw.
Matching on, she proceeded to the Doha 2015 International Paralympic Championships to win Gold (the only medal for Nigeria and also increased her world record to 7.72 metres).
In 2016, she handed team Nigeria it’s first medal in the athletes event, clinching gold in the women’s shot put f40 on day-four of the Rio2016 in Brazil. Her first throw of 8.40m which stands as a world record till today.
Lauritta Onye settled for the bronze
in the F40 shot put with a throw of 8.29m at the Tokyo2022 Paralympic Games in Japan.
She also won Silver at the 2023 World Para Athletics Championships in Paris, France.
Happiest and Iconic moment
In the celebration of her victory (Gold medal) at the Rio2016 Paralympic Games in Brazil, Lauritta left an unforgettable excitement in the games with her dance steps, catwalks, summersaults and friendly gestures as she flew the Nigerian green-white-green right in the centre of the world stage.
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