Team Nigeria’s Grace Nwokocha advanced to the semi-finals of the women’s 200m event on Monday, while Blessing Oborodudu qualified for the semi-finals in the 68kg wrestling event at the ongoing 2020 Tokyo Olympics in Japan.
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 in a time of 22.40.
The women’s 200m semi-finals are due for later on Monday, while the final is slated for Tuesday.
In the same vein, Nigeria’s Blessing Oborodudu advanced to the semi-finals in the 68kg wrestling event after a hard-fought 3-2 win against Meerim Zhumanazarova.
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.
