Reigning Nigeria sprint queen, Blessing Okagbare, tops the list of 12 athletes the Athletics Integrity Unit has cleared to compete in the athletics event of the ongoing Tokyo Olympics which gets underway on Friday. Okagbare, who is making her fourth appearance at the Olympic Games, and who is Nigeria’s record holder in the 100m and […]
Nigerian gold medallists Tobi Amusan, Blessing Okagbare, Joy Udo-Gabriel and Rosemary Chukwuma celebrate after winning the women’s 4x100m relay during the 2018 African Senior Athletics Championship in Asaba. Photo: PIUS UTOMI EKPEI/AFP.
Others are the trio of Divine Oduduru, Enoch Adegoke and Ushoritse Itshekiri who will be competing in the men’s 100m. Oduduru will also race in the 200m, an event he holds the national record of 19.73 seconds; a time he set two years ago in Austin, Texas, in the USA, to win the NCAA gold. Prince Adeniyi Adisa Beyioku, Secretary-General of the Athletics Federation of Nigeria, says the athletes are in good spirits as they are determined to return Nigeria to the podium for the first time since 2008 when Okagbare and the women’s 4x100m won Nigeria’s last Olympic medals in track and field.
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