Grace Anigbata gained her first international experience at the Junior African Championships 2015 in Addis Ababa , where she finished eighth in the high jump with 1.60 m. In 2018 she surprisingly won the triple jump at the African Championships in Asaba with 14.02 m . The following year she won the gold medal in the triple jump at the African Games in Rabat with 13.75 m and reached 13th place in the long jump with 5.77 m.
In 2016, Anigbata became the Nigerian high jump champion.