Nigeria’s medal hopeful at the on-going IAAF World Championships in Beijing, Blessing Okagbare, will on Monday afternoon file out for the semi-finals of the women’s 100m. The final will also take place on Monday.
Okagbare qualified for the semi-finals on Sunday after finishing first in her heat returning in 11.07secs.
She will be running in lane four of heat one alongside Jamaican Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, who will be running from lane 6, and American sprinter, English Gardner, who will be running from lane 8.
Fraser-Pryce finished top of her heat in 10.88secs while Gardner finished second in her heat in 11.16secs to make it to the semis.
In 2008, Okagbare won her first Olympic medal inside the ‘Bird’s Nest’, the venue for the World Championships, winning a bronze medal in the long jump. And she will be hoping for another success story on Monday.
“The stadium in Beijing means a lot to me, Okagbare said ahead of the semifinals. “That was the track I won my first and most priceless medal.
“Before the 2008 Olympics, I never understood what it meant to be an Olympian and a medallist, but I was able to achieve that at the age of 19 which makes it a very great memory.”
A medal finish for Okagbare will secure her third medal at the World Championship after winning silver and bronze in the long jump and 200m respectively at the last championships two years ago in Moscow, Russia.
Okagbare qualified for the semi-finals on Sunday after finishing first in her heat returning in 11.07secs.
She will be running in lane four of heat one alongside Jamaican Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, who will be running from lane 6, and American sprinter, English Gardner, who will be running from lane 8.
Fraser-Pryce finished top of her heat in 10.88secs while Gardner finished second in her heat in 11.16secs to make it to the semis.
In 2008, Okagbare won her first Olympic medal inside the ‘Bird’s Nest’, the venue for the World Championships, winning a bronze medal in the long jump. And she will be hoping for another success story on Monday.
“The stadium in Beijing means a lot to me, Okagbare said ahead of the semifinals. “That was the track I won my first and most priceless medal.
“Before the 2008 Olympics, I never understood what it meant to be an Olympian and a medallist, but I was able to achieve that at the age of 19 which makes it a very great memory.”
A medal finish for Okagbare will secure her third medal at the World Championship after winning silver and bronze in the long jump and 200m respectively at the last championships two years ago in Moscow, Russia.
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