Blessing Okagbare’s impressive Diamond League season showed more signs
of improvement in Birmingham at the Sainsbury’s Grand Prix where she
raced a wind assisted (+0.9) to emerge first ahead of Shelly-Ann
Fraser-Pryce and Lalova Ivet of Bulgaria.
From start to finish,
the 24-year-old Nigerian defied all predictions and carried on moving
away from the rest athletes. Worthy of credit was the manner with which
she took to the bend, blazing hot with vigour and determination as she
went on to finish first in 22.55secs ahead of London Olympic silver
medalist Fraser-Pryce 22.72secs and Ivet 23.02secs.
Ryemyen
Mariya (23.07secs) of Bulgaria and Onuora Anyika (23.13secs), racing for
Team GB came 4th and 5th respectively, as Jeters (23.36secs) seems not
to have recovered fully from his hamstring injury, finishing 7.
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