Nicola Tuthill
Athletics
BIOGRAPHY
Nicola Tuthill achieved a throw of 69.90 meters at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, narrowly missing advancement to the final by just over a metre.
In May 2024, she recorded a personal best throw of 70.32 meters in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia, becoming only the second Irish woman to surpass the 70-meter mark, following Eileen O’Keeffe. The following month, she finished ninth in her first major senior final at the European Athletics Championships in Rome, with a throw of 69.09 meters. In March 2025, Tuthill secured the gold medal in the Under-23 hammer throw at the European Throwing Cup in Nicosia.
Raised on her family’s dairy farm, Tuthill’s father constructed a throwing cage on their property in 2019 to support her training.
She is only the third female Irish thrower to become an Olympian, following Patricia ‘Pat’ Walsh (ninth in discus in 1984), and world finalist Eileen O’Keeffe who competed in the hammer in 2008.
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