Team Nigeria’s Grace Nwokocha on Monday in Tokyo advanced to the semi-finals in the women’s 200 meters event.
Nwokocha ran a personal best of 22.47 seconds to finish third in heat 1 of the event to gain one of the automatic tickets to the semi-finals.
Cote d’Ivoire’s Marie-Josee Ta Lou won the heat with 22.30, while the Bahamas’ Shaunae Miller-Uibo was second with 22.40.
In the same vein Blessing, Oborodudu is in the finals and about to open the floodgates of medal blessings for Nigeria
Earlier, she defeated Azerbaijan’s Elis Manolova 13-2 in the quarter-finals.
Blessing Oborodudu is now guaranteed a medal, while Nwokocha is also a prospective medal hopeful.
