Nayoka Clunis

Nayoka Clunis (born 7 October 1995) is a Jamaican hammer thrower. She is Jamaican national record holder and multiple-time national champion.

Early life Clunis moved to the United States to pursue academic qualification in conjunction with her sporting career. She attended the University of Minnesota before transferring to the University of Tennessee in 2020.

Career In 2023 she won her fourth Jamaican national championship title in the hammer throw. That year, she set a lifetime best mark of 71.18 metres in Canada. She became the first Jamaican to compete in the Hammer Throw competition at the World Athletics Championships (man or woman) at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest. At the event she was hampered by discomfort in her back and did not throw 60 metres.

In May 2024, Clunis set a new national record with a 71.83m throw at the USATF Throws Festival in Tucson, Arizona breaking the previous national record of 71.48m set in 2016 by Daina Levy. That month, she was announced as one of five athletes to benefit from sponsorship by the Jamaica Olympic Association.

Although Clunis met the qualification standard for entry to the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, due to an administrative error by the Jamaica Athletic Administrative Association her name was omitted from the country's entry list to the games. Clunis was unsuccessful in an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport to be allowed entry to the event.

She won the hammer throw at the 2025 Jamaican Athletics Championships in Kingston in June 2025 with a throw of 69.05 metres. She won the silver medal competing for the Jamaica at the 2025 NACAC Championships in Freeport, The Bahamas. In September 2025, she competed in the hammer throw at the 2025 World Championships in Tokyo, Japan.

In July 2026, she represented Jamaica in the hammer throw at the 2026 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland.