Funmi Oduwaiye

Oluwafunmilola Oduwaiye is a British para-athlete who competes in the Shot put and Discus.

Early life
From Cardiff, she was 11 years old when she joined Cardiff Met Archers basketball side. In 2019, she represented Wales at the Under-18 European Basketball Championships in Moldova and was named one of the players of the tournament.

Career
She took up para-athletics in 2022, following multiple surgeries to her legs. An initial surgery to try to correct Genu valgum resulted in a damaged artery, with subsequent surgeries unsuccessful. She was left paralysed in her right leg from the knee down.

Competing at the Welsh Athletics Championships, she threw a new personal best in the shot put of 11.03 metres. That day, she also threw 32.26 metres in the discus. In July 2023, she made her World Para Athletics Championships debut in Paris. She finished sixth in the F64 discus and fourth in the F64 shot put.

In March 2024, she was announced as a subject of a Channel 4 documentary detailing athletes in the run-up to the 2024 Paris Olympics, along with other athletes and para-athletes such as Keely Hodgkinson, Hannah Cockroft and Jake Wightman.