Yemisi Mabry (née 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 final round. She also won the silver medal at the 2024 World Indoor Championships and the 2025 European Indoor Championships, and the bronze medal at the 2024 European Championships.
Early life Yemisi Ogunleye was born in Germersheim, Germany and grew up in the village of Bellheim. She has a German mother and a Yoruba Nigerian father.
Career As Yemisi Ogunleye she trained with the club MTG Mannheim in Mannheim, Germany. She finished 10th at the 2023 World Athletics Championships. 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. In June, she won the bronze medal at the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome with a best mark of 18.62 metres. In August, she won the gold medal at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, taking the lead with her final throw of the competition, a personal best 20.00 metres which put ahead of New Zealand's Maddison-Lee Wesche, who herself had thrown a personal best of 19.86 m.
Having set a new personal best at the 2025 German Indoor Championships, in March 2025, she won the silver medal at the 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships in Apeldoorn, Netherlands, behind Jessica Schilder. In June, she was also runner-up to Schilder at the 2025 European Athletics Team Championships First Division in Madrid. She went on to represent Germany at the 2025 World Championships in Tokyo, Japan, where she placed sixth in the final.
In March 2026, she set a personal best 20.37 metres to win the German Indoor Championships in Dortmund. Later that month, she placed fifth at the 2026 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Toruń. In May 2026, she competed as Yemisi Mabry at the 2026 Shanghai Diamond League, throwing 18.55 m.
Personal life Ogunleye is a gospel singer. She is married to American football player Tyler Mabry.
Statistics
Personal best progression + Shot Put progression # Mark Competition Venue Date 1 12.50 m 13th German U20 Indoor Championships Sindelfingen, Germany 2 13.23 m Coupe de L'amitié Sarreguemines, France 3 13.73 m Nationales Hallensportfest der LG Eintracht Frankfurt Frankfurt, Germany 4 13.81 m Baden-Württembergische Hallenmeisterschaften Karlsruhe, Germany 5 14.08 m 4th Süddeutsche Hallenmeisterschaften, Glaspalast Sindelfingen, Germany 6 14.34 m Mannheim, Germany 7 14.77 m Mannheim, Germany 8 15.23 m German U20 Indoor Championships Sindelfingen, Germany 9 15.43 m France-Germany-Italy U20 Indoor Match Halle, Germany 10 15.65 m Mannheim, Germany 11 16.04 m Heilbronn, Germany 12 16.50 m 6th Hallesche Werfertage, Sportzentrum Brandberge Halle, Germany 13 16.63 m Süddeutsche Meisterschaften Aktive / U18 St. Wendel, Germany 14 17.06 m Abendsportfest Mannheim, Germany 15 17.34 m MTG Wurfmeeting Mannheim, Germany 16 17.36 m Wurf-Gala U23 Halle, Germany 17 17.65 m Renault Schmid Werfertag 2021 Teil 2 Bad Boll, Germany 18 18.13 m German Athletics Championships Braunschweig, Germany 19 18.14 m LO Kugelstoßen im Kurpark Bad Liebenzell Bad Liebenzell, Germany 20 18.20 m Deutsche Hochschulmeisterschaft Darmstadt, Germany 21 18.53 m 5th HALPLUS Werfertage Halle, Germany 22 19.31 m 58th International Pentecost Sport Meeting Rehlingen, Germany 23 19.44 m World Athletics Championships Budapest, Hungary 24 19.57 m Nordhausen-Indoor Kugelstoßen Nordhausen, Germany 25 20.19 m World Athletics Indoor Championships Glasgow, Scotland
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