IAAF ranks Okagbare 4th, Egwero 62nd

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Blessing Okagbare

Blessing Okagbare’s excellent start to the athletics season has earned her a recognition by the International Association of Athletics Federations as her 10.98secs dash in the 100m event of the Shanghai Diamond League is ranked fourth in the latest 2015 Top List.


Okagbare, who won the Shanghai race ahead of fierce rivals, Shelley Ann Fraser-Pryce and Veronica Campbell-Brown, also has her 11.04secs silver-winning run at the Jamaican International Invitational meet earlier on May 9 ranked as eighth.

The 26-year-old was tied on the fourth spot with Trinidad and Tobago’s Kelly-Ann Baptiste, who had run 10.98 in April. They are behind Jamaica’s Elaine Thompson and USA’s Jenna Prandini, who both ran 10.92secs in April, and Michelle-Lee Ahye, who ran 10.97secs in April.

The Nigerians in the Top 100 of the Women’s 100m rankings are Peace Uko, whose 11.27secs at the Clermont meet on May 16, earned a 38th place along with Gabon’s Ruddy Zang Milama and Bahamas’ Tynia Gaither, and Gloria Asumnu, who is in the 83rd position after clocking 11.44secs at the Lake Charles meet in April.

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