BIRMINGHAM 2022 : Nigeria Wins Gold In Women’s 4x100m Relay Final, Men Picks Up Bronze Medal – National

Nigeria has received the Commonwealth Video games Ladies’s 4x100m Relay remaining, ending forward of England and Jamaica.

Tobi Amusan, who had defended her Ladies’s 100m hurdles title on the Video games earlier on with a brand new report of 12.30 seconds time, was drafted in to interchange Pleasure Udo-Gabriel for the ultimate of the Ladies’s 4x100m race.

She teamed up with the trio of Favour Ofili, Rosemary Chukwuma, and Grace Nwokocha to win gold within the occasion on Sunday with a time of 42.10 seconds, setting a brand new African report.

Amusan began the historic race earlier than handing over to Ofili, who ensured Nigeria stored the benefit earlier than handing over to Chukwuma, who ran flawlessly and handed the baton over to reigning Nigerian 100m queen, Nwokocha, in first place.

Regardless of risk from Nice Britain’s Darly Neita, Nwokocha maintained Staff Nigeria’s benefit to win the nation’s first girls’s relay gold on the Video games.

Elsewhere, the boys’s workforce of Udodi Onwuzurike, Favour Ashe, Alaba Akintola, and Raymond Ekevwo additionally made historical past by successful bronze. The medal is the primary by the boys’s 4x100m relay workforce since 1982.

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