2020 Tokyo: Okagbare, Nwokocha Break 9-year Jinx, Qualify For 100m Semifinal

Team Nigeria's sprinters Blessing Okagbare and Nzubechi Grace Nwokocha broke a 9-year jinx as they qualified for the women's 100m semifinals from their

Team Nigeria’s sprinters Blessing Okagbare and Nzubechi Grace Nwokocha broke a 9-year jinx as they qualified for the women’s 100m semifinals from their respective heats early hours of Friday at the ongoing Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games in Japan.

Nwokocha had to run a new personal best of 11.00 seconds to secure her qualification to the semifinals in her debut at the Games. The home-based athlete who ran 11.09 seconds to secure her qualification for the Olympics in March at the MOC Grand Prix in Lagos will however need to make further history by breaking the 11 seconds barrier as the fifth Nigerian woman to do so to stand a chance of joining Onyali and Okagbare as debutants who ran all the way to the final of the event.

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