| Nicola Tuthill | |
| Sport: | Athletics |
| Event: | Hammer throw |
| Birth Date: | 22 December 2003 |
| Pb: | Hammer: 70.32m (Banská Bystrica, 2024) |
Nicola Tuthill (born 22 December 2003) is an Irish hammer thrower. She is a multiple-time national champion.[1]
She is from Kilbrittain, near Bandon, County Cork, where her parents Norman and Collette run a dairy farm. She has an older sister, Olivia. Her father built her a throwing cage and circle on their farm in 2019. She studies biological, biomedical and biomolecular science at University College Dublin.[2]
She won her first Irish senior hammer title in 2020 with a best of 60.04m, aged just 16 years-old, a new Irish U18 record.[3] [2]
She qualified for the final at the World Athletics U20 Championships in Cali, Colombia, finishing in eighth place.[3] [2]
Competing at her first senior international contortion for Ireland, she finished second in the 2023 European Team Championships in Silesia in Poland, throwing a lifetime best of 67.85m. This placed her second on the Irish senior all-time list behind national record holder Eileen O'Keeffe. She won the Irish under-23 title in Tullamore, Co Offaly, setting a championship record 64.89m. [3] She was the 2023 Athletics Ireland University Athlete of the Year.[2]
Competing at the Irish Universities Track and Field Championships in April 2024, Tuthill took victory with a new Irish U23 record throw of 68.65m.[4] She threw a new personal best of 70.32 metres in Banská Bystrica in May 2024.[5] [6] She finished ninth in her first major final at the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome, having thrown a distance of 69.85 to rank seventh best qualifier for the final.[7]
In July 2024, she qualified by ranking for the 2024 Paris Olympics.[8]