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Rio Athletics: Oke, Lamigoke, Ukaoma crash out

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8 years ago

August 15, 2016

Nigeria continued her bad run in track and field as the duo of Olu Olamigoke and Tosin Oke failed to qualify for the finals of the triple jump event.

Olamigoke expectedly failed to make his Olympics debut a memorable one after he could not hop, step and jump beyond 16.10m, 85cm short of the 16.95m qualifying standard set for the event.

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Oke on his part did not fulfill expectations after he too could only jump 16.47m to place 16th in his qualifying group.

Also out of the Olympics is quarter-mile barrier runner Miles Ukaoma who failed to hurdle past the first round.

The USA-based Nigerian came in fifth (49.84s) in the very first heat of the 400m hurdles to wave bye to the Rio Games.

In the early hours of Tuesday another 400m hurdler, Ogoegbunam Amaka will attempt to see if she could qualify for the semi-final in her first appearance at the Games and possibly go a step further by equaling national record holder, Ajoke Muizat Odumosu’s final placing four years ago in London.

Also bidding to make her debut an unforgettable one is discus thrower Chinwe Okoro who will be aiming to improve the 61.58m national record she set early this year to 62m, the qualifying standard set by the IAAF for the event.

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