Blessing Okagbare produced double African Records on her way to claiming a well deserved victory in the 100m Final at the Sainsbury’s Anniversary Games in the Olympic Stadium, London, on Saturday.
A 10.86secs finish time in the semi-final was bettered by another 10.79secs in the final as the Delta-born athlete recovered from an average start to power to victory ahead of Barbara Pierre of United States, who came 2nd with a joint personal best of 10.85secs.
Trinidad and Tobago’s Kelly-Ann Baptiste came 3rd in 10.93secs, while Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce failed to recover from a poor start to finish 4th in 10.94secs.
“I just wanted to put up a good race and I’m so excited,” Okagbare said after the race. “For me, I just want to do my best and I’ve been working hard and have tried to stay on top of my recovery.”
Looking on to next month’s IAAF World Championships, Okagbare has successfully put behind her the poor memories of London 2012 by producing a wind assisted (+1.1mps) personal and season best of 10.79secs at the London IAAF Diamond League meeting and she hopes to get better than that.
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