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Favour Ofili threatened Blessing Okagbare's Nigerian Record, as well as winning the 200m and 4x100m events at the LSU Invitational.
Another meet and more great performances from Nigeria's rising track star Favour Ofili, who stormed to a world-leading, all-conditions time of 10.78s (+2.2), stadium record in the 200m, and an impressive 4x100m anchor leg run at the LSU Invitational.
Her time would have broken Blessing Okagbare's National Record of 10.79s but for the slightly excessive wind reading, thus making it illegal.
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Notwithstanding, it is the second-fastest by a Nigerian female sprinter after the legendary Okagbare's 10.72s (+2.7) and ahead of Rosemary Chukwuma's 10.82s (+2.6).
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12:07 - 14.04.2024
Paris Olympics: X-raying Favour Ofili as Nigeria's next chosen sprints star after Blessing Okagbare
Usually it takes a while for a country to find another talent that can take over from a legendary athlete. But with Favor Ofili, Nigeria is favoured to have a next track star after Blessiing Okagbare.
The former Louisiana State University (LSU) standout college athlete matched world-renowned sprinter Aleia Hobbs stride for stride until the finish line. However, the American was given the win for a faster reaction time of 0.002s, despite both clocking the same time.
Her performance came just a few minutes after a brilliant anchor leg run in the women's 4x100m event, where she ran down the top two leading runners to claim victory for Tiger Olympians in 43.26s.
Then coming back for her third race at the same meet, the 21-year-old clocked an effortless Stadium Record of 22.34s (-0.2) to win the 200m event.
Ofili has been in impeccable form this season, starting the year with a 300m African Record (AR) of 35.99s to smash Amantle Montsho's 14-year-old previous time of 36.33s.
A few weeks later, she stormed to the second-fastest 100m season opener by a Nigerian athlete in history behind Okagbare, with a then-all conditions world lead of 10.85s - all these in her first season as a professional athlete.
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21:34 - 30.03.2024
Favour Ofili: Star girl storms to second-fastest season opener by a Nigerian athlete in history behind Blessing Okagbare
Nigeria's speedster Favour Ofili is back and better as she blazed to her fastest 100m time ever for an impressive win in Louisiana.
And then the icing on the cake this season so far was blazing to a legal 22.33s to win the women's 200m elite event at the Tom Jones Invitational - a time fast enough to punch her automatic ticket to the Paris Olympic Games.
By doing this, she became Nigeria's first female qualifier in the sprints, and definitely in that form to qualify in the 100m as well.
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20:19 - 23.04.2024
African Games champions and NCAA athletes dominate Team Nigeria list to World Relays in Bahamas
Check out the full list of Team Nigeria to the World Relays in Bahamas.
Ofili is a star sprinter on a mission this season and with the progress she has been making in each of her races, she's primed for more success, which can include a Diamond League debut win to announce herself among the world's best sprinters.
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