Princess Kara Explained

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 .

Career

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]

Notes and References

  1. News: Modupe . Oremule . I’m aiming for World Championship standards in discus – Kara . 10 May 2020 . NNN NEWS NIGERIA . 26 June 2019 . en.
  2. Web site: Maduewesi . Christopher . Nigeria's 10 Breakout Athletes in 2018 (Part 1) . MAKING OF CHAMPIONS . 10 May 2020 . 29 December 2018.
  3. Web site: Ayodeji . Ayodeji . Princess Kara clocks PB to claim Discus Gold as Team Nigeria win five medals on Day 3 of CAA U18 & U20 Champs . Save Nigeria Sport . 10 May 2020 . 19 April 2019.
  4. News: Discus Princess: CAC's Kara wins national title. Casa Grande Dispatch. Ed. Petruska. 14 May 2021. 16 June 2022.
  5. News: Kara has record breaking showing at nationals for CAC. Casa Grande Dispatch. Ed. Petruska. 23 May 2022. 16 June 2022.