Blessing Okagbare sets new Commonwealth record as she clinches 100 metres gold

Blowing away a field of top class opposition that included Jamaican Veronica Campbell-Brown, the Olympic bronze medallist and World Athletics Championships silver medallist, the Delta-State born athlete was simply too hot to handle.
Kerron Stewart, another world class Jamaican, who won silver at the 2011 Daegu World Athletics Championships, came third.




BLESSING Okagbare took Nigeria's participation at the ongoing Glasgow Commonwealth Games to new heights last night with an emphatic win in the women's 100 metres race setting a new championship record of 10.85 seconds in the process.
Blessing, 25, who had a disappointing London 2012 Olympics, is now looking forward to winning the World Athletics Championship next year. This will put her in good stead for the 2016 Olympics coming up in Rio de Janeiro in 2018, where she will now be one of the main contenders for the gold medal.

Yesterday, Itohan Ebireguesele added to Team Nigeria's medal haul when she won silver in the women's 69kg weightlifting tournament. She lifted a total of 222kg, lifting 100kg in the snatch and 122kg in the clean and jerk to take second place behind Cameroon's Marie Fegue, who claimed gold with a combined lift of 234kg.