Nigeria’s 4 x 400m relay team made history on Saturday morning in the first semi-final of the day at the IAAF World Championships in Beijing.

The team, led by 400m open finalist Patience Okon-George, ran 3:23.27 seconds, the fastest time run in the history of the championship by a Nigerian team since the quartet of Fatimah Yusuf, Mary Onyali, Airat Bakare and Charity Opara with a 49.97 anchor ran 3:24.45 to place fifth in the final at the Tokyo 1991 third edition of the championship.

The 2015 history-making team was led off by 2013 400m open semi-finalist Regina George who handed over with a marginal advantage to Foluke Oladoye who improved the advantage marginally before Ekiti-born, Tosin Adeloye increased the advantage significantly before finally handing over to Okon-George, the only one in the team who has broken 51 seconds this year, to race home first and qualify for Sunday’s final.

The team has been drawn in lane 7 for Sunday’s final and will hope to win Nigeria’s women’s first relay medal at the championship.

They will however have to battle it out with hot favourites, the USA, who won the other semi-final; Jamaica who are second on the 2015 top list behind USA and just ahead of Nigeria, as well as Great Britain who may likely bring in 400m open finalist and former world champion, Nigeria-born Christine Ohuruogu.

http://www.metronaija.com/2015/08/nigerias-female-4-x-400m-relay-team-set.html

Woooowww this is good thumbs up to the team

I rep naija

9ja is leplesenting
#team9ja

Why historic?

Proud of you. We ar en in ehoed voice

Good one

Historical ke

Thanks God for the Improvement

not that historic for my Jamaican distorts....my Lititle sister Shelley-Ann is still there.

Higerian girl chop norku

K,historical indeed! Mak dem sha no b lik okagbare wey cari last 4 final o...

Nigeria my beloved country

Wow!!! Fantastic.

BabaO2:
Why historic?

.. Lets just encourage them.. Its not that hard at all...

i can run

still folding my hands.......



call me when they win the medal

Is not abt reaching finals alone, u must win at least bronze to show for all ur efforts. Wish u luck. And congratulations for reaching finals.

adedayourt:
i can run

buh cnt evn enta mushin final not to talk of beijing!

Give us a picture...

We thank God!
May God lift them higher for His glory and glory alone.

Adatob:
buh cnt evn enta mushin final not to talk of beijing!

broda iwaju ile o'okan, ati ri yin

olillywales:



Nigeria’s 4 x 400m relay team made history on Saturday morning in the first semi-final of the day at the IAAF World Championships in Beijing.

The team, led by 400m open finalist Patience Okon-George, ran 3:23.27 seconds, the fastest time run in the history of the championship by a Nigerian team since the quartet of Fatimah Yusuf, Mary Onyali, Airat Bakare and Charity Opara with a 49.97 anchor ran 3:24.45 to place fifth in the final at the Tokyo 1991 third edition of the championship.

The 2015 history-making team was led off by 2013 400m open semi-finalist Regina George who handed over with a marginal advantage to Foluke Oladoye who improved the advantage marginally before Ekiti-born, Tosin Adeloye increased the advantage significantly before finally handing over to Okon-George, the only one in the team who has broken 51 seconds this year, to race home first and qualify for Sunday’s final.

what is historic about this...that they broke Nigerian own record
when others are breaking world re?cord ??

The team has been drawn in lane 7 for Sunday’s final and will hope to win Nigeria’s women’s first relay medal at the championship.

They will however have to battle it out with hot favourites, the USA, who won the other semi-final; Jamaica who are second on the 2015 top list behind USA and just ahead of Nigeria, as well as Great Britain who may likely bring in 400m open finalist and former world champion, Nigeria-born Christine Ohuruogu.

http://www.metronaija.com/2015/08/nigerias-female-4-x-400m-relay-team-set.html

what is historic about this...that they broke Nigerian own record,when others breaking world record
silver or gold we have not,what we have we give to you....our historic record
mediocrity of the highest order
the tragedy of life is not that our dream is too big and we failed,but it is too small and we achieved it

Historic wetin! ...we broke our own record n they r celebrating ..mscheww. Una mates dey shatter world records (rubbish)

I hope Buhari's bad luck will not affect them this time,..just my thought

Buhari is a darkness

adedayourt:


broda iwaju ile o'okan, ati ri yin

oshey,at least ur eye stil dy function

Bring back the Gold

Hope they won't choke like Warri(Okagbare) wey carry last

Hmm good... lovely. am proud of them.

Good luck to our girls. God bless Enefiok Udo-obong: the anchorman of the our finest performance in a relay race of all time during the Sydney and Athens Olympics men 4X400m relay. Akwa Ibom State has a lot of talented athletes(secondary schools, tertiary and streets) but our sports ministry is a mere political nest. Truth be told, we should stop sending athletes blinding to competitions like we don't have the records. For example, If Bolt, Gatlin and others run 9.74 seconds or less to win the 100m events, can't we comb the country looking for one who can beat the clock 1st before coming face to face with these men?

Good improvement



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God help Muhammed Bihari.
God help Nigeria.
God help me.
God help you.
(Amen)

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