Blessing
Okagbare has qualified for the London 2017 World Athletics Championships with
her first outing of the season at the Texas Tech Red Raider Shoot-Out.
Okagbare,
competing in the women’s Olympic Development 200m dash, clocked 22.87secs to
qualify for the event in London.
According
to reports her time surpassed the World Championships qualifying mark of
23.10secs and stands as the leading time in the country in the event.
Former
national champion Ugonna Ndu also qualified for London 2017 after racing
to a personal best of 56.01secs in the 400m hurdles at the Tom Jones Memorial
Invitational to erase her former mark of 56.12secs set in 2013.
Ndu
represented Nigeria at the World Relays last week where she ran in the 4x100m,
4x200m and 4x400m heats and got to the
final of the last two events and qualifying for an automatic slot in the 4x400m
ahead of the World Championships.
The
25-year-old’s new time surpasses the qualifying time of 56.10secs in the event.
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