Nigeria's medal hopeful at the IAAF World Championships in Moscow, Russia, Blessing Okagbare yesterday put herself in a good position to land the women long jump gold after she recorded the second best jump in the qualifying rounds.
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Okagbare jumped 6.83m to book an automatic qualification for the final billed for this evening, she was second best to British Shara Procter who leapt 6.85m. Volha Sudarava (6.71m) from Belarus and Darya Klishina (6.70m) of Russia are the top women from the group B qualifier.
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For defending champion, Brittney Reese of the USA, it was a struggle to make startlist of the final as she could only manage 6.57m to earn the last spot in the list of 12 finalists. Okagbare who will run in the heats of the women 100m along side Stephanie Kalu this morning only needs to hold her nerves leading to the final show down. It was good that she didn't have to do much work on the pit yesterday.
She is a role model to so many Nigerian ladies right now cos she's made a mark for herself. I pray she gets the GOLD....