Blessing Okagbare once again took Nigeria to the podium at the on-going IAAF World Athletics Championship in Moscow.
The African record holder put up a strong fight to win the bronze medal in the women’s 200m event.
Okagbare clocked 22.32 seconds to finish behind 100m champion shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce of Jamaica who picked the gold medal with a time of 22.17 seconds.
Murielle Ahoure of Cote d’Ivoire posted a time of 22.32 seconds to clinch silver medal even though she and Okagbare crossed the finish line the same time.
Meanwhile Nigeria is in for another medal haul as its 4×400 women’s relay team qualified for the final of the event.
The quartet of Reginal George, Omolara Omotoso, Patience Okon and Josephine Ehihie clocked a season’s best time of 3 minutes 27.39 seconds to finish second behind Great Britain.
The performance of the women quartet has raised expectations that Nigeria might pick a medal when the final takes place on Saturday.
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