A Nigerian teenage athlete, Favour Ofili, has broken Blessing Okagbare\u2019s 200 metres National Record at the Tom Jones Memoria.<\/p>\n
Okagbare previously held the National Record since 2018 with a time of 22.04 seconds.<\/span><\/p>\n Ofili ran a blistering 21.96 secs to also become to become the first collegian athlete to ever go sub 22 secs.<\/span><\/p>\n With the time, she also emerged as the first Nigerian female to break 22secs in the women\u2019s 200m.<\/span><\/p>\n She has set a new National Record, NCAA Record. <\/span><\/p>\n Her time is also the fastest in the world this year, the fastest ever in the NCAA and a new School Record.<\/span><\/p>\n On Friday, Favour Ofili powered to World Lead of 21.96s (1.3) to take the women\u2019s 200m at the Tom Jones Invitational in Florida, ahead of Kamaya Debose-Epps who ran 22.81secs and Jonah Ross in 22.91secs.<\/span><\/p>\n She is a Nigerian track and field athlete specialising in the 200 metres and 400 metres sprints.<\/span><\/p>\n She is the 2019 African Games silver medalist in the 400 metres. <\/span><\/p>\n She is also the 2019 African Youth Champion in the 200 and 400 metres.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A Nigerian teenage athlete, Favour Ofili, has broken Blessing Okagbare\u2019s 200 metres National Record at the Tom Jones Memoria. Okagbare previously held the National Record since 2018 with a time of 22.04 seconds. Ofili ran a blistering 21.96 secs to also become to become the first collegian athlete to ever go sub 22 secs. With […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7083,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4239,4238,4237,4240,4241],"class_list":["post-7082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-200m-record","tag-blessing-okagbare","tag-favour-ofili","tag-national-record","tag-tom-jones-memoria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7082"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7082"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7084,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7082\/revisions\/7084"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}