We are so proud of Nigerian athlete, Blessing Okagbare who has once again qualified for the next round of the women’s 100m race.
She won her semi-finals heat in 10.92 seconds, surpassing her earlier best record of 10.93 seconds to qualify for the finals.
The semi-finals race was once agian won by American world champion Carmelita Jeter. She finished the race in 10.83 seconds, outrunning the powerful Jamaican pair of Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, the defending champion, and Veronica Campbell-Brown, who won the 200m in Beijing in 2008.
Blessing is heading on to the finals tonight and as she forges on, we are very proud of her and wish her the very best!
All the best Blessing!
Wishing her the best!! xoxo
I love how BN and other naija blogs are showing our olympians love. Disappointing performances so far, still wetin man go do?
hi baby just like your names goes, thanks for bringing ur name favour to 8jar, keep it up in case d’tigers are failing try to keep ur head up and delivery 9jar from shame. cheers
Blessing you will make it. A medal ofcourse.
Good job gurl. Keep it up and make us proud. All the very best. 🙂
Proud of u blessing……..wishing u the best
Pity, she came last in the 100 metres final.
God plssssss Gold
YoU re a blessing indeed to nigeria,u go girl,best of luck
I watched it last night and was gutted she came last in the final but she still performed well,they were all really fast the whole thing was like a flash of lighting,wish Blessing more success in future.
As someone who dabbles a little in athetics I can see that she has a LOT of natural talent, but is in need of some coaching; her starts are what hold her back! If it was possible for Nigerian athletes to get proper funding and coaching I don’t see why they shouldn’t excel. After all, look at half of the athletes representing GB and the USA; so many of them are technically Nigerian.
So true. I was a collegiate athlete myself and I see so much potential in Blessing Okagbare. Her starting techniques and some other what’s holding her. If she can get a hold of a good running and strength coach she would be blistering.
Go Blessing!!!
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Thanks for taking us this far.
She fell at the finals, well she tried her best!
blessing u are too much go for gold God is with u
Best of lick Blessing ,yoyu have made us proud!
Congratulations Blessing! Sad you didn’t make it all the way but we are extremely proud of you!