Divine Oladipo

Divine Oladipo
nation	United Kingdom of England
birthday	5th October 1998 (age 21)
place of birth	London , UK
Career
discipline	Shot put
Best performance	17.37 m
society	Blackheath & Bromley
Trainer	John Hillier
status	active
last change: May 15, 2020

Divine Oladipo (born October 5, 1998 ) is a British athlete who specializes in the shot put and discus throw .

Athletic career

Divine Oladipo gained first international experience in 2015 when she finished ninth in the shot put at the Commonwealth Youth Games in Apia with a width of 12.71 m, while she came fourth in the discus competition with 42.44 m. Two years later she took part in the U20 European Championships in Grosseto , Italy , where she started both in the shot put and in the discus throw . While she failed in the qualification in the discus throw with 46.11 m, she qualified for the shot put final and missed a medal there with a width of 16.03 meters in fourth. A year later, she started for the first time at the British Athletics Championships, where she took fourth place in the shot put with a width of 16.16 meters. She took seventh place in the discus throw. In the shot put, the British qualified for the European Athletics Championships in Berlin in 2018 . In the qualification she only reached a width of 15.78 meters and could not qualify for the final. In 2019 she was fourth in the shot put at the U23 European Championships in Gävle with 16.79 m.

Personal best

• Shot put: 17.37 m on May 24, 2018 in Tampa
  • Shot put (hall): 16.88 m, February 2, 2019 in Boston
• Discus throw: 54.23 m, April 26, 2018 in Philadelphia

Web links

• Divine Oladipo in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Profile at British Athletics