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Blessing Okagbare wins gold at Diamond league event

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Last weekend, Nigerian athlete Blessing Okagbare beat 8 other athletes to win the Women’s 200m race at an   International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Diamond League event at Stanford University.

Okagbare, who had a time of 22.05, finished ahead of Jamaica’s Elaine Thompson(22.21) and Britain’s Dina Asher-Smith (22.42) who came in second and third respectively.

She had also booked her place in the Tokyo 2020 Olympics at the Shanghai Diamond League meeting in May, where she stormed to an impressive season’s best of 11.07sec to finish 2nd in the 100m.

Okagbare is now on course to compete in her fourth Olympics for Nigeria, having made her first appearance 11 years ago at the Beijing Olympics, where she won bronze in the women’s long jump event.

Watch the video of the race below;

http://https://youtu.be/vZQcw-OQQOk

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