Thursday, 6 July 2017

Okagbare qualifies for London 2017 World Athletic Championship





   Blessing Okagbare has qualified   for the London 2017 World Athletics  Championships  after  jumping   6.77m to finish in the  second place  at the Gyulai Istvan Memorial Athletics Grand Prix meet in Hungary .

   The 2008 Olympics bronze medallist   secured qualification for  the 100m and 200m  races of for next month’s London 2017 World Athletic Championship in August.

  Okagbare  also won the 100m event  with a time of  11.11 seconds, her second fastest time of the season., She won ahead of Remona Burchell of Jamaica  and Nigerian-born American Morolake Akinosun ,  who came second and third respectively

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