World hurdles champion Tobi Amusan powered Nigeria\u2019s 4x100m women\u2019s team to gold at the Alexander Stadium in Birmingham, as Nigeria claimed a first-ever Commonwealth Games title in the event.<\/p>\n
The men\u2019s 4x400m team made up of Udodi Onwuzurike, Favour Ashe, Alaba Akintola and Raymond Ekevwo also made history with a bronze medal win. <\/span><\/p>\n It\u2019s the first medal by the men\u2019s 4x100m relay team since 1982.<\/span><\/p>\n The women\u2019s 4x100m quartet, which also has Favour Ofili, Rosemary Chukwuma and Grace Nwokocha, claimed gold in record-breaking fashion, finishing in 42.10secs to break the 42.22secs African record they set at last month\u2019s World Athletics Championships in Oregon, USA.<\/span><\/p>\n World and Commonwealth Games 100m hurdles champion and record holder, Amusan started the historic run with a brilliant first leg, before handing over to Ofili, who ensured Nigeria maintained the advantage, before giving Chukwuma, the individual 100m finalist the baton.<\/span><\/p>\n Chukwuma ran the curve perfectly and handed over to reigning Nigerian 100m queen, Nwokocha in the first position.<\/span><\/p>\n The 21-year Nwokocha maintained the advantage despite the threat of Great Britain\u2019s anchor leg Darly Neita to bring home Nigeria\u2019s first women\u2019s relay gold.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" World hurdles champion Tobi Amusan powered Nigeria\u2019s 4x100m women\u2019s team to gold at the Alexander Stadium in Birmingham, as Nigeria claimed a first-ever Commonwealth Games title in the event. The men\u2019s 4x400m team made up of Udodi Onwuzurike, Favour Ashe, Alaba Akintola and Raymond Ekevwo also made history with a bronze medal win. It\u2019s the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9861,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[5597,5595,92,5596],"class_list":["post-9860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-4x100m-gold","tag-cwg","tag-nigeria","tag-toni-amusan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9860"}],"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=9860"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9862,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9860\/revisions\/9862"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}