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Last Friday , the world celebrated the International Women’s Day – a day set aside to draw attention to the common plights of women, as well as an avenue to applaud the strides and achievements of women across various spheres of influence, and women in Sport are not left out.
The quartet of Beatrice Utondu, Christy Opara-Thompson, Mary Onyali Omagbemi and Faith Idehen won a Bronze medal in the women’s 4x100m at the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona, a medal that was celebrated as though it were Gold. At the Sydney 2000 Games, Glory Alozie overcame the trauma of losing her fiancé to win a Silver medal in the 100m Hurdles. She remains Nigeria’s only Olympic medallist in the hurdles and the last Nigerian to win an individual Olympic medal on the track.
She entered the history books by becoming the first Nigerian to win the 100m/200m at the Commonwealth Games, a feat she achieved at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. To put things into perspective, a Nigerian male sprinter is yet to win either the 100m or 200m at the Commonwealth Games, whereas Onyali-Omagbemi won the 100m and placed 2nd in the 200m at the 1994 edition of the Games in Victoria, Canada.
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