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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).
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]