Lauritta Onye

Quick Facts

Full Name	Lauritta Onye
Occupation	Actor
Date Of Birth	Jan 4, 1984(1984-01-04)
Age	40
Birthplace	Owerri
Country	Nigeria
Birth City	Imo State
Horoscope	Capricorn

Lauritta Onye Biography

Lauritta Onye is one of the most popular and richest Actor who was born on January 4, 1984 in Owerri, Imo State, Nigeria. Lauritta Onye (born on January 4, 1984) is an Paralympian sportsperson who participates in F40 throwing events that are classified. She was a participant at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro winning gold in the F40 shot throw. Onye can also be seen as an actor who performs as Laury White.

Despite the financial challenges Onye did not fail to represent Nigeria in the 2015 Summer Paralympics and competed in the shot-put (T40). Onye was the best in her field and beat Tunisia’s Rima Abdelli to take silver. On being the very first T40 athletes to leap more than eight meters, Onye reacted excitedly by dancing and cartwheeling before crowds of Brazilian crowd.

One of the very first major international events to host a throwing competition specifically for F40 class athletes took place at the 2015 IPC Athletics World Championships held in Doha. Onye took part in the sole event specifically for F40 athletes, which was the shot throw. Onye was entered into the World Championships as one of the top contenders after achieving an international record of 7.59 meters in Tunisia in March of the year. In Doha Onye did better than her previous record, throws a record-breaking distance of 7.72 in her first try. Her closest competitor, Lara Baars of the Netherlands had a throw of 6.80 which was an European record but was one metre less than Onye. This represented the Nigerian team’s only medal from the Championships.

Lauritta Onye Net Worth

Lauritta Onye is one of the richest Actor from Nigeria. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Lauritta Onye 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Onye is born in Owerri, Nigeria in 1999. She hails from Ikeduru. Onye has been born to a type of achondroplasia and stands 1.25 meters (4.1 feet) tall. In addition to athletics, Onye hopes to be an actress. In 2015, she appeared as a character in The Nollywood movie Lords of Money, appearing as Laury White.

Onye began her athletic career in 2008, however she didn’t make a splash internationally until the introduction of a change to the law of the classification of Para-athletics in athletics in the year 2012. Before 2012, those with smaller stature were categorized under the F40 rule, which was applicable to all female competitors who were less than 140 centimeters. To ensure that there was a balance in the field, the 2012 ruling divided the F40 classification into F40 and F41 which means that F40 currently being reserved only for female athletes who are less than 125 centimeters which places Onye in the category of most tall athletes in her category.

On returning to Nigeria, the country’s top Olympic and Paralympic athletes were received by President Buhari and awarded funding to aid in the athletes’ training for the 2016 Games in Rio de Janeiro. Despite Onye claiming the funding was forthcoming, neither she, not her coach received the money leading to a negative impact on Onye’s preparations for Rio. She believed that it was due to her being a disabled athlete that the money was not allocated to her. In response she threatened to pull out of the Games.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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Facts & Trivia

Lauritta Ranked on the list of most popular Actor. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Nigeria. Lauritta Onye celebrates birthday on January 4 of every year.