
The fastest woman in Africa is now the fastest woman in the Commonwealth.
Blessing Okagbare backed up a series of scintillating runs at Hampden Park
to claim a stunning Commonwealth
Games 100 metres title ahead of Jamaica’s Veronica Campbell-Brown
and Kerron Stewart on Monday night.
The Nigerian, who had gone in as the pre-race favourite, stormed away from the field at the gun and beat off a dogged effort from Campbell-Brown to prevail in a Commonwealth Games record of time of 10.85 sec, almost two-tenths of a second ahead of the Jamaicans.
The final had long been earmarked as a battle between Okagbare and the
Jamaican trio of Campbell-Brown, Stewart and Schillonie Calvert.
Sandwiched between the three of them in lane five, Okagbare’s bright dyed blonde hair seemed to be boldly taunting her rivals on the startline, acting as a beacon for them to chase. Catch me if you can.
The Nigerian had already marked herself out as an inconspicuous target earlier
in the evening with an utterly dominant semi-final performance.Congrats Blessing Okagbare.
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