Okagbare wins 200m race in Paris

Nigeria’s Blessing Okagbare won the women’s 200m at the Paris Diamond League Saturday after trailing American Allyson Felix off the bend.

A savage dip at the line saw the 25-year old Nigerian finish in 22.32sec, with three-time world champion and current Olympic gold medallist Felix in second at just two-hundredths of a second.

Reigning double Olympic 100m champion, Jamaican Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, laboured in fifth (22.63) in a boost for Okagbare’s sprint intentions come Glasgow.

“I think I now want to be seen more in sprints, these are the events followed most by the public,” insisted Okagbare, who stumbled out of the blocks in the 100m in Lausanne on Thursday and failed to finish.

“I’m not sure about my plan for the Commonwealths, the sprints for sure and also the relay, but it’s not clear with the jumping.”

Okagbare won 200m bronze and long jump silver at the Moscow world championships last year.