{"id":802,"date":"2012-06-21T16:24:22","date_gmt":"2012-06-21T16:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?p=802"},"modified":"2012-06-21T16:24:22","modified_gmt":"2012-06-21T16:24:22","slug":"okagbare-rewrites-ngerias-sprint-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?p=802","title":{"rendered":"OKAGBARE REWRITES NGERIA\u2019S SPRINT HISTORY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/bleeeh.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-803\" title=\"bleeeh\" src=\"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/bleeeh.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"357\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/bleeeh.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/bleeeh-300x178.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A<strong><em>s Metu reclaims 100 metres men<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<p>Blessing Okagbare on Tuesday rewrote the Nigeria\u2019s track and field history, emerging the first woman to win for the fourth consecutive times the 100m event of the All Nigeria\/Cross River State Athletics Championships at the U. J Esuene Stadium, Calabar.<\/p>\n<p>She snatched the tittle from the USA based Gloria Asumnu in a photo finish.<\/p>\n<p>Okagbare clocked 11.12 seconds as against the 11.13 recorded by Asumnu, and expressed her happiness after emerging the first Nigerian lady to win the tittle four times.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m really happy defending the tittle here in Calabar. It was not an easy race considering those who were in the line up. It is something that I need to celebrate\u201d Okagbare said immediately after the race.<\/p>\n<p>Although she admitted that the 11.12 seconds she clocked was not what she expected.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut when you look at the weather condition today and the lack of enough time to loosen up, you will agree that the time is not altogether a bad one\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFirst, I will go to the Senior African Championships in Port Novo, Benin Republic to see if I can improve on it and also defend successfully the tittle I won in Kenya two years ago\u201d\u00a0 she added.<\/p>\n<p>On why she had not been doing the long jump event where she won bronze at Beijin 2008 olympics, Okagbare insisted the surgery she had sometime ago slowed down her progression in the event.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am going to do the long jump on Thursday. I need the speed of the spirit to help me in the jump. Now that I am getting real good in the spirit. I think it is time I go full blast inot the long jump. Lets see how I fare in it\u201d stressed the Sapele \u2013 born sprinter.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile in the male category, three time champion Obinna Metu has reclaimed the 100m from the grip of Ogho Oghene Egwero in a hotly contested race at the just concluded All Nigeria\/Cross Rivers Athletics championship.<\/p>\n<p>Peter Emelueze who came into Nigeria\u2019s London Olympic trials here in Calabar as a contender, posted the most disappointing time of 10.39 to place sixth despite wining his semi \u2013 final earlier in 10.21.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking shortly after the race, Metu insisted that his best was yet to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 As Metu reclaims 100 metres men Blessing Okagbare on Tuesday rewrote the Nigeria\u2019s track<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports-news"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","elegant-magazine-featured":"","elegant-magazine-medium":"","elegant-magazine-medium-small":"","elegant-magazine-thumbnail-small":""},"author_info":{"info":["Imo Trumpeta"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?cat=13\" rel=\"category\">Sports<\/a>","tag_info":"Sports","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=802"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":805,"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802\/revisions\/805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}