Blessing Okagbare
Okagbare is a Nigerian athlete whose area of concentration is based on long jump and short sprints. She has been making herself and the country proud both home and abroad with her sporting skills.
She's definitely a name to reckon with in the Nigeria sports industry.
She recently announced on all her social media platform about her "Guinness World Record" achievement for the 'Most Appearances at the Diamond League meetings'
- She was born in Sapele Delta State on the 9th of October 1988.
- Blessing was a football player during his high school days before she finally ventured into track and field interest in 2004.
- She earned a bronze medalist at the Nigerian Sports festival in 2004.
- She qualified for the long and triple jump competition at the 2006 world Junior Championship Athletics and this happened to be her first international outing.
- She took part in 100m race at the London Anniversary games on the 27th of July 2013 and set a brand new record of 10.86 seconds by an African.
- Blessing broke the record of 10.91 seconds set by Ferguson Mckenzie at the 2002 Commonwealth games in Manchester with a winning timing of 10.85 seconds.
- She enjoyed listening to music and got married to a Nigerian football striker "Igho Otegheri" in September 2014.
Writer: AdekunleMichealT
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