Olympics: Nigeria’s Blessing Okagbare wins her 100m heat; qualifies for semi finals
0UPDATE: Blesing just qualified for the Olympics finals! Read more here
Nigeria’s Blessing Okagbere won her 100m heat thus securing her spot in the 100m Olympics semi finals. She set a personal best of 10.93 seconds to win her first-round heat in London.
That time is reported to be the second fastest of the round, just behind by about 10 seconds to America’s Carmelita Jeter’s 10.83 seconds.
Though Okagbare’s start was not as quick (she was one of the latter runners out of the block in the fourth heat), she quickly caught up, eventually winning the heat.
She is really excited about her win.
“I’m really excited about this, with the way I ran and a personal best already,” she said.
Twenty four runners qualified to the semi finals. All eyes in Africa are on Okagbare. We wish her the best of luck!
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