| Rhema Otabor | |
| Nationality: | Bahamas |
| Sport: | Athletics |
| Event: | Javelin |
| Birth Date: | 3 December 2002 |
| Pb: | Javelin: 64.19 (Eugene, 2024) |
Rhema Otabor (born 3 December 2002) is a javelin thrower from the Bahamas.[1]
From Nassau, Bahamas, she attended Florida International University and University of Nebraska in the United States.[2]
She won gold representing Bahamas at the 2021 NACAC U20 Championships in San Jose, Costa Rica with a personal best of 55.06m. in August 2021, she finished fourth at the 2021 World Athletics U20 Championships in Nairobi, where set a new Bahamian junior national record and a personal best with a throw of 55.08 metres.[3]
She won bronze at the senior 2022 NACAC Championships in Freeport, Bahamas in August 2022 with a throw of 57.91 metres.[4] In June 2023, she won the NCAA Championship Division 1 javelin competition in Austin, Texas.[5]
She won gold at the 2023 NACAC U23 Championships in San Jose, Costa Rica in July 2023, and threw a personal best 59.75m at the Bahamas National Championships. She competed at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest but did not qualify for the final.[6] [7] She was a silver medalist at the 2023 Pan American Games in Santiago in October 2023.[8]
She set a new personal best of 64.19 to win the 2024 NCAA Championships in Eugene, Oregon.[9] It also broke the collegiate javelin record of 62.19m set in 2016 by Maggie Malone.[10] She competed in the javelin at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris in August 2024.[11]