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Blessing Okagbare is the Commonwealth Games Champion

7/28/2014

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From start to finish she would not be denied as she took off from the blocks in the 100 meters finals at the Commonwealth games in Scotland.

 Blessing Okagbare crossed the line ahead of Veronica Campbell Brown and Kerron Stewart both of Jamaica and with an emphatic pump of the fist etched a notch for herself in the annals of the history of Track and Field winning the Gold Medal in spectacular fashion with a Games record time of 10.85 seconds.

Following in the heels of her performance in the semi-finals earlier where she left nothing to chance and took care of business, winning in a eye popping time of 10.93 seconds Blessing came to the finals with the ultimate intent to win and that she did as she got challenged in the mid part of the race by Veronica Campbell Brown of Jamaica but would not be hauled in pushing further out ahead of her challengers to win with a significant margin.


With this win she brings back to memory the hey days of sprinting and track and field dominance by Nigeria in the 1980’s and 90’s when the likes of Mary Onyali and Falilat Ogunkoya and many more used to be household names around the globe in the sport.  Blessing is sure to inspire many young Nigerian and African girls who would now want to emulate her.  Congratulations to Blessing Okagbare in winning the 100 meters Gold Medal at the Commonwealth Games.

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