Nicola Tuthill
Irish athlete (born 2003)
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Nicola Tuthill (born 22 December 2003) is an Irish hammer thrower. She is a multiple-time national champion and world finalist.[1]
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| Born | 22 December 2003 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event | Hammer throw | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Personal bests | Hammer: 72.48m (Nicosia, 2026) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Early life
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][3][4]
Career
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.[2][4] She qualified for the final at the World Athletics U20 Championships in Cali, Colombia, finishing in eighth place.[2][4]
2023
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, County Offaly, setting a championship record 64.89m.[2] She was the 2023 Athletics Ireland University Athlete of the Year.[4]
2024
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.[5] She threw a new personal best of 70.32 metres in Banská Bystrica in May 2024.[6][7] 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.[3]
In July 2024, she qualified by ranking and competed in the hammer throw at the 2024 Paris Olympics.[8][9]
2025
In March 2025, she won the gold medal in the U23 hammer throw at the European Throwing Cup in Nicosia.[10] She was selected for the 2025 European Athletics Team Championships Second Division in Maribor in June 2025, finishing third overall with a throw of 70.50 metres.[11][12] That month, she threw an Irish U-23 record of 71.71m in Finland and the following month backed that up by throwing 70.65 metres in Cork.[13] She won a silver medal at the 2025 European Athletics U23 Championships in Bergen, Norway on 18 July.[14] The following week, she won another silver medal with a throw of 69.98 metres at the 2025 World University Games in Germany.[15] In September 2025, she competed in the hammer throw at the 2025 World Championships in Tokyo, Japan, qualifying for the final and placing eleventh overall.[16][17]
2026
Tuthill won the silver medal at the 2026 European Throwing Cup in Nicosia, throwing a personal best 72.48 metres.[18] In July, she had a best of 72.35m to finish second to Camryn Rogers at the Cork City Sports in Ireland. She also placed runner-up to Rogers in the same week at the Morton Games in Dublin.[19][20] On 26 July, Tuthill won her fifth national title in the hammer at the 2026 Irish Championships, with a best throw of 70.16 metres.[21]
