Izuchukwu OkosiNigeria’s U20 record holder in the Athletics Women’s 100m, Tima Godbless will on Wednesday night (early Thursday morning in Nigeria) seek to secure a place in the final of the World Athletics Championship in Cali, Colombia reports Prime Business Africa.
Godbless ran a new 11.09 seconds lifetime best in the first round which has become the fastest time ever ran by a Nigerian in the competition and the fastest opening round heats in the history of the championships.
Godless will run in lane four of the semifinals race and her ultimate aim will be to break the record held by Twanisha Terry who ran a time of 11.03 seconds when the Championship was held in Tampere, Finland in 2018.
Godbless scorched to a Personal Best and National Junior Record of 11.08s (0.1), to win the fourth heat of the Women’s 100m event in Cali.
In doing so, she broke the record set by Jfoemer trackster Joan Uduak Ekah which had stood for 23 years and was the fastest qualifier across all seven heats of the Women’s 100m.
The Championship began and will be closed at the Pascual Guerrero Olympic Stadium in Santiago de Cali, Colombia on Saturday, August 6.
Izuchukwu Okosi is a Nigerian sports and entertainment journalist with two decades of experience in the media industry having begun his media journey in 2002 as an intern at Mundial Sports International (MSI) and Africa Independent Television (AIT), owners of Daar Communications Plc.
In October 2004, Okosi joined Complete Communications Limited, publishers of Complete Sports newspaper and Complete Football magazine as a reporter and later script writer for the Complete Sports studio.
He worked there for 13 years until October 2017.
Okosi also worked various times as Correspondent, Content creator and Editor at Sports Market International Magazine, Opera News, All Nigeria Soccer Media and Iconic Media Watch.
He also undertook freelance writing gigs for some local and international organizations.
Okosi is a member of the Actors Guild of Nigeria (AGN), Association of Movie Producers (AMP), Association of Voiceover Artistes of Nigeria (AVOA), Sports Writers Association of Nigeria (SWAN) and Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ).
He has been part of cast in some Nollywood movies and radio dramas including Blood Money 2, Scores To Settle, Dead End 2, Another Campus Tale and Battle Line.
Aside mainstream media and the entertainment industry, he has interests in scouting/unearthing of talents in the sports and creative sectors, exports business and property development.
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