Team Nigeria made a blistering start in the athletics event of the Commonwealth Games on Tuesday with all of the six athletes in action qualifying for the semi-final of the 100m event.
Competing in the men’s 100m event, the trio to Favour Oghene Tejiri Ashe, Raymond Ekevwo and Godson Oghenebrume all breezed into semi-final at the Alexandria Stadium in Birmingham on Tuesday.
While Ashe and Ekevwo finished among the top 10 from the heats in times of 10.12s and 10.14s to get automatic qualification spots, Oghenebrume had to wait with his time of 10.36s to get passing as one of the non-automatic qualifiers.
Ashe who is reigning Nigeria’s fastest man won his heat, beating the likes of Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake.
For Oghenebrume, he was intially disqualified for a false start but later reinstated which somewhat affected his concentration as he finished third in the sixth heat.
In the women’s race, it was also a similar development with two of the Nigerian runners, Grace…
