| Laulauga Tausaga | |
| Nickname: | Lagi Tausaga[1] |
| Sport: | Athletics |
| Event: | Discus throw Shot Put Hammer |
| Club: | Chula Vista Elite Athlete Training Center |
| Collegeteam: | University of Iowa |
| Birth Date: | 1998 5, df=yes |
| Birth Place: | Hawaii, U.S. |
| Hometown: | Spring Valley, San Diego County, California, United States |
| Show-Medals: | yes |
Laulauga Tausaga-Collins (born 22 May 1998 in Hawaii) is an American discus thrower. With a personal best throw of 69.49 m, she won the gold medal at the 2023 World Athletics Championships.[2] She also won the gold medal at the 2022 NACAC Championships.
Tausaga made the women's discus final at 2019 and 2022 world championships, won silver medals in discus at the 2019 match and 2019 NACAC U-23 Championships. Tausaga won discus at 2017 Pan American U20 Athletics Championships.
She won the gold medal at the 2023 World Championships in Budapest with a fifth throw of 69.49 m that raised her personal best by more than four metres, after finishing 12 and last in the discus final at the previous two world athletics championships.
She failed to qualify for the 2024 US Olympic team by fouling all three of her attempts.[2]
| Representing | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | World Championships | Budapest, Hungary | bgcolor=gold | 1st | Discus | |
| 2022 | 2022 NACAC Championships | Freeport, Bahamas | bgcolor=gold | 1st | Discus | |
| World Championships | Eugene, United States | 12th | Discus | |||
| 2019 | World Championships | Doha, Qatar | 12th | Discus | ||
| The Match Europe v USA | Minsk, Belarus | bgcolor=silver | 2nd | Discus | ||
| 2019 NACAC U23 Championships in Athletics | Queretaro, Mexico | bgcolor=silver | 2nd | Discus | ||
| 2017 | 2017 Pan American U20 Athletics Championships | Trujillo, Peru | bgcolor=gold | 1st | Discus | |
| 2017 | USATF U20 Outdoor Championships | Sacramento, California | bgcolor=gold | 1st | Discus | |
| USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships | 17th | Discus | Foul | |||
| 2018 | USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships | Des Moines, Iowa | 15th | Shot put | ||
| 3rd | Discus | |||||
| 2019 | USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships | Des Moines, Iowa | 3rd | Discus | ||
| 2021 | United States Olympic trials | Eugene, Oregon | 24th | Discus | Foul | |
| 2022 | USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships | Eugene, Oregon | bgcolor=silver | 2nd | Discus | |
| 2024 | United States Olympic trials | Eugene, Oregon | 24th | Discus | Foul | |
Laulauga Tausaga-Collins is a 2019 NCAA Discus champion, 8-time NCAA Division 1 All-American, 6-time Big Ten Conference champion, & 12-time All-Big Ten Conference scorer.
[4]Tausaga won 2014 CIF San Diego Section Shot put title in and 2015 CIF San Diego Section Shot put title in while representing Mount Miguel High School.At the 2015 CIF California State Meet, she placed 3rd in the shot put .