Okagbare qualifies for 2017 World Championships

 

Nigeria’s Blessing Okagbare has qualified for the long jump event of the London 2017 16th IAAF World Athletics Championships.



This was after she leaped to a 6.77m second place finish in the long jump at the Istvan Gyulai Memorial in the Hungarian city of Székesfehérvár on Tuesday.
Only last month, the 2008 Olympics bronze medallist (long jump) had already secured qualification for the 100m and 200m races for the next month’s Championships.
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Okagbare also won the 100m event on Tuesday with a time of 11.11 seconds, her second fastest time of the season.
She won ahead of Remona Burchell of Jamaica (11.15) and Nigerian-born American Morolake Akinosun (11.19), who came second and third respectively
Meanwhile, 2014 Commonwealth Games long jump gold medalist Brume and Africa’s undisputed sprint hurdles queen Tobi Amusan failed to make the list of confirmed athletes for the eighth leg of the Diamond League in Lausanne, Switzerland, on Thursday.