Yemisi Ogunleye

Yemisi Ogunleye (born 3 October 1998) is a German shot putter.

She won the gold medal in the shot put at the 2024 Paris Olympics with 20.00 metres in the last round.

Ogunleye was born in Germersheim, Germany and grew up in the village of Bellheim.

[2][3] She has a German mother and a Yoruba Nigerian father.

At the 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships, Ogunleye led the field after the first throw, and despite only throwing one more valid attempt she won the silver medal.