Archives Tag: IAAF Diamond League

SPORTS

April 19, 2022

  Nigerian sprinter, Blessing Okagbare, has been on a record-breaking spree recently. After achieving a double personal best in the American Track League on Sunday, February 7, 2021, the fastest Nigerian woman is in the headlines again for receiving the Guinness World Record certificate for the athlete with the highest appearances in the Diamond League. … Continue reading Blessing Okagbare Breaks Usain Bolt’s Diamond League Record

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SPORTS

April 19, 2022

Nigeria sprint queen, Blessing Okagbare, confirmed her place in the final of the 200m in the Diamond League after finishing fifth in Birmingham to gather four points, increasing her total haul to 18 points, which was good enough to seal her place in Zurich cum August 29, 2019. Okagbare will now fight to be the … Continue reading Okagbare and Amusan Qualify for Zurich Finals

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SPORTS

April 19, 2022

Nigerian sprint queen, Blessing Okagbare, is the new women’s 100m champion at the IAAF Diamond League in Rabat, Morocco. Okagbare, who is also the African 200m record holder, took a giant leap in her rivalry with continental foe Cote d’ Ivoire’s Marie-Josee Ta Lou. The Ivorian and current African champion led the race in its … Continue reading Okagbare Wins Diamond League In Rabat

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SPORTS

April 19, 2022

Blessing Okagbare set two meeting records in the women’s Long Jump and 200m events at the 2014 IAAF Diamond League in Shanghai, China. Okagbare made an impressive leap of 6.86m (+0.1) in round 1, ahead of national record holder, Ivana Spanovic of Serbia (6.85m, +0.3), to move second on the 2014 world list. Germany’s Sosthene … Continue reading Golden Moments In Sports: Okagbare’s 2014 Two Meet Records Showdown

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CAREER SPORTS

April 19, 2022

  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 … Continue reading Blessing Okagbare Leads Nigerian Team to Glasgow

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Entertainment SPORTS

April 19, 2022

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 … Continue reading Okagbare sets new African record in London

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SPORTS

April 19, 2022

Nigeria’s Blessing Okagbare has won the long jump event at the International Amateur Athletic Federation (IAAF)  Diamond League in Monaco. Okagbare, who’s one of Nigeria’s medal hopefuls at the Moscow 2013 IAAF World Championship, cleared 7.04m to record her personal best of the season. She left Russia’s Darya Klishina and Britain’s Proctor Shara in her … Continue reading Okagbare Wins IAAF Diamond League

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