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Rio: Oduduru, Amusan through to 200m semifinal

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8 years ago

August 16, 2016

Nigeria’s teenage star, Divine Oduduru, qualified for the semifinal of the men’s 200m coming behind Jamaican superstar Usain Bolt at the ongoing Olympic Games in Rio.

The national champion raced to the finishing line in a personal best of 20.34secs behind Bolt who jogged across the line in 20.28sec to keep alive his dream of winning an unprecedented ‘triple-triple’ of sprint titles in Rio.

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Bolt began to ease down 50m from the line but still did enough to win easily, a marked contrast to Oduduru who was eyeballs out just to finish in Bolt’s wake in a personal best time.

Also on Tuesday, University of Texas at El-Paso’s freshman, Oluwatobiloba Amusan, made it to the women’s 100m hurdles semifinal despite finishing fifth in her heat as her time of 12.99secs was enough as one of the best four losers.

She will however hope to do better in the semifinal to be able to qualify for the final when she files out in lane two of semifinal two later on Wednesday.

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