Favour Ofili has usurped veteran sprinter Blessing Okagbare as the fastest 200m female runner in Nigeria, following her impressive 21.96 secs finish at the just concluded Tom Jones Invitational in Gainsville, Florida.
Okagbare who set her record of 22.04 secs in 2018 and is currently serving a possible career-ending 10-year doping ban, will have a worthy successor in 19-year-old Ofili who suffered the heartbreak of missing the Tokyo 2020 Olympics due to her inability to complete the three Out-Of-Competition tests.
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She was the youngest Nigeria athlete at the 2019 WA World Championships in Doha where she represented the country at 16.
The Louisiana State University undergraduate was also at the African Games in Morocco, the same year she won a silver medal in the 400m. Apart from breaking Okagbare’s record, Ofili also broke Dawn Sowell’s school record of 22.04secs.
She is just the second African woman to go under 22secs in the half-lap event and her winning time is also a world leader for 2022 (the fastest in the event so far this year).
The only African woman to run faster than Ofili is the 2020 Olympic silver medalist Christine Mboma of Namibia, who has a personal-best time of 21.78sec.
