Blessing Okagbare: The Nigerian Queen of Tracks and Milestone Ahead
Fresh from her audacious performance at the IAAF Diamond League in Shanghai, the Nigerian queen of the tracks is in a world of her own. Beating Shelly Ann Fraser-Pryce with almost a meter, she arrived at a time of 10.98 seconds to win the race. Given the star studded line-up, it gives the queen more […]
Nigeria Wins World Relays Gold
Nigerian quartet of Blessing Okagbare, Regina George, Dominique Duncan and Christy Udoh on Saturday night set a new national record of 1:30.52 seconds to emerge as the 4×200 metres World Relays champions. The team went into the race as underdogs with the Allyson Felix-led USA and Veronica Campbell-Brown-led Jamaican teams being tipped to take the […]
Blessing Okagbare and Others Get Olympic Scholarship
Yesterday, the Nigeria Olympic Committee (NOC) received the approval of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to award The Rio 2016 Scholarships to 12 outstanding Nigerian athletes. Accoding to ThisdayLive, the Secretary General of NOC, Hon. Tunde Popoola explained that the scholarship programme was introduced to support and enable the athletes prepare – under good conditions […]
Okagbare Finishes 2014 as World’s Best Sprinter
Blessing Okagbare capped off a tremendous year as she emerged World’s best sprinter in 2014 according to an online review of the world top 10 sprinters in 2014. Okagbare was picked ahead of US sprinter and five-time Olympic medalist, Justin Gatlin; Kaliese Spencer, Dafne Schippers and Kirani James. Okagbare, who won the Long Jump Bronze […]
Blessing Okagbare Wins 100 Meters Gold African Athletic Championship
On Monday night, Nigeria’s Blessing Okagbare continued with her Commonwealth Games form as she won gold in the women’s 100m event in a record time of 11.00 secs at the ongoing 19th Edition of the African Athletic Championships in Marrakech, Morocco. Okagbare, who won a double in sprint at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, set […]
Okagbare Leads Team Nigeria to African Athletics Competition
Team Nigeria comprising of 30 athletes, led by Commonwealth Games track double Gold medalist, Blessing Okagbare has touched down in Marrakech, Morocco for the 19th edition of the African Athletics Championship (AAC). The team is hoping to produce the performance that saw them crowned African Champions at the 2012 edition in Porto Novo, Benin Republic […]
Okagbare Delivers Another Gold in 200meters as Ese Wins Long Jump Event
Yesterday, Nigeria’s sprint queen, Blessing Okagbare won the women’s 200m gold at the on-going Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland. She clocked 22.25 seconds to confirm forecasts that the sprints medals were hers for the taking. Earlier on Monday, she won the gold in the women’s 100m with 10.85 seconds, setting a record while beating […]
Blessing Okagbare Wins Gold at 200m Sprint
Nigeria’s athlete, Blessing Okagbare, has won another gold medal at the ongoing Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland. Okagbare won gold in the 200m sprint, finishing in 22.25secs. She had earlier won a gold medal on Tuesday in the 100m, making it two gold medals in the tournament holding in Glasgow. Okagbare is now the 10th person […]
Blessing Okagbare Leads Nigerian Team to Glasgow
Fresh from her awesome outing in the Prefontaine Classics in the USA, sprinter Blessing Okagbare, along with quarter-miler, Regina George and triple jumper Tosin Oke, has been confirmed for the ninth meeting of the 2014 season of the IAAF Diamond League on 11-12 July in Glasgow, Scotland. While Okagbare will compete in the women’s […]
Blessing Okagbare, Christy Udo, Others, Make Nigeria Commonwealth Team List
Track and field queen, Blessing Okagbare will lead Nigeria’s team at the forthcoming Commonwealth Games billed to hold in Glasgow, Scotland from July 23 to August 3. The athletes’ list was released by the Athletic Federation of Nigeria, AFN, Technical/Commonwealth Games Selection Committee at a meeting held immediately after the AFN/CRS All-Nigeria Athletics Championships held […]
The Golden Girl of Nigeria, Blessing Okagbare
Nigeria has been blessed with talented female athletes such as the likes of Mary Onyali, Gloria Alozie, and Falilat Ogunkoya. However, the latest queen of the track and Golden Girl of Nigeria is undoubtedly Blessing Okagbare. Blessing Okagbare (born 9 October 1988) is a Nigerian track and field athlete who specializes in long jumping […]
Nigeria’s Blessing Okagbare Breaks Records in China
Nigerian Sprinter and long jump star, Blessing Okagbare emerged at the top in both the long jump and 200m events at the Shanghai Diamond League meet, breaking two records at the championship. The Nigerian set a new meeting record in the long jump taking the first position with a 6.86 metres leap. Okagbare equally followed it […]
Blessing Okagbare Receives N3m Reward from Presidency
Long Jump Silver Medal winner at the IAAF World Athletic Champion, held in Russia in August, Blessing Okagbare, was hosted on Wednesday by President Goodluck Jonathan, at the Presidential Villa in Abuja. Okagbare, who also came third in the Women’s 200m in the same competition and holds the African 100m record, was invited by the […]
Okagbare Fails to Live Up to Expectation
Nigeria’s hopes of seeing one of their own ascend the winner’s podium in the World Athletics Championships in Moscow was dealt a huge blow on Monday when medal hopeful, Blessing Okagbare finished a disappointing sixth in the women’s 100metres final. The 24 year-old finished with a time of 11.04 secs, enough to settle in sixth […]
Okagbare sets new African record in London
Blessing Okagbare was in the form of her life as she inked her name in Africa’s athletics history books at the IAAF Diamond League meeting in London on Saturday. The reigning Nigeria 100m champion ran 10.79 seconds to set a new Nigerian and African record. Okagbare erased Glory Alozie’s 2000 African record of 10.90 seconds […]
What Did We Learn From London 2012 Olympics?
Nigerian athletes participated in 13 games and came back with no medals. Many questions are already hitting headlines, but the big question is “what have we learned from this Olympic Games?”