BEAKING: Favour Ofili qualifies for women’s 200m final at Olympics

Nigerian sprinter, Favour Ofili has qualified for the final of women’s 200m at the ongoing 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, France.

TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports Ofili executed a good race plan to grab the second automatic spot.

Ofili finished 2nd with a Season’s Best of 22.05s, just behind Julien Alfred who won the race, crossing the line in a time of 21.98s.

Favour Ofili is the first Nigerian woman to qualify for the final of the 200m at the Olympics in 28 years.

The last time a Nigerian made the final of women’s 200m was in Atlanta 1996 when Mary Onyali won a Bronze medal. Ofili was not even born then.