Nigeria’s Blessing Okagbare has posted the best women’s 200m time of 2013 of 22.31 (wind +1.3m\/sec) at the Mount SAC Relays on Saturday in Los Angeles, California.<\/p>\n
The 25 year old Blessing was a Nike ambassador at the elite invitation race, which saw fellow Nike representative, Candyce McGrone coming second with a time of 22.85 (wind + 1.3\/sec) and Natasha Hastings came third in 22.90 seconds.<\/p>\n
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Blessing Okagbare: cheers another good outing<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
The race which held on the Mount San Antonio College campus east of Los Angeles, also saw Mike Rodgers notching the fastest 100m in the world this year.<\/p>\n
Rodgers, the US national champion in 2009, won the Mount SAC 100m in 10.04sec — in an unfavorable wind of 0.4m\/sec — ahead of compatriot Ryan Bailey.<\/p>\n
Bailey, a member of the US silver medal-winning 4x100m relay team at the London Olympics, clocked 10.18sec.<\/p>\n
American English Gardner notched a world-leading women’s 100m time with a victory in 11.00sec in a wind of 1.8m\/sec.<\/p>\n
At the Kansas Relays in Lawrence, Kansas, Michael Tinsley won the 400m hurdles in a world-leading 48.77 seconds, heading a field that included 2005 world champion Bershawn Jackson.<\/p>\n
At Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Olympic champion and world record-holder Aries Merritt won the 110m hurdles in 13.37sec — five-hundredths of a second outside the season’s best.<\/p>\n
At the same meeting on the campus of Louisiana State University, Jamaican Natoya Goule won the 800m in 2:00.76, the fastest in the world this year.<\/p>\n
At Gainesville, Florida, Gay clocked 45.95sec in a runner-up finish to Tony McQuay (45.88) in a 400m.<\/p>\n
Gatlin, who denied Gay the 100m bronze at the London Games by one-hundredth of a second, won the 100m in Gainesville in 10.06sec.<\/p>\n
At the Michael Johnson Classic in Waco, Texas, former world and Olympic 400m champion Jeremy Wariner raced his first 400m of the season, clocking 45.72sec to finish runner-up to American university stand-out David Verburg (45.56).<\/p>\n