Princess Kara | |
Birth Date: | 2 June 2000 |
Education: | Central Arizona College |
Country: | Nigeria |
Sport: | Discus throwing |
Regionals: | 2019 African Under 20 Champion |
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 .
Kara participated in the 2016 National Youth Games and has also competed in the triple jump and shot put.
Kara won gold in discus throwing at the 2018 National Sports Festival (NSF) in Abuja.[1] 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.[2] At the Under 20 African Championships (held in Abidjan), she recorded a personal best of, which beat her previous highest score by over five metres.[3] She then set a new personal best of at the qualifying trials for the 2019 All Africa Games, later coming fifth at the games with a throw of . She also won the 2019 National Championships.
She competed for Central Arizona College, where she won consecutive NJCAA Division I Outdoor discus titles in 2021 and 2022.[4] [5]