Nigeria’s Blessing Okagbare on Sunday rose to the occasion to win the silver medal in the long jump event at the world championship.
Okagbare briefly led in the first round with 6.89 metros and later improved to 6.99 metros on her penultimate jump, with silver.
Brittney Reese became the first woman to win three long jump titles.
Reese, gold medallist in 2009 and 2011, had scraped into the final on countback after a below-par showing in Saturday’s qualifying but the American had no intention of losing her crown and, after opening with a foul, leapt 7.01 metres.
Serbia’s Ivana Spanovic was third with a national record of 6.82 metres on countback from Belarussian Volha Sudarava.
Before celebrating, Olympic champion, Reese, put on a t-shirt bearing the words: “unleash the beast”, hugged Okagbare and then holding the Stars and Stripes flag, posed for photographers.
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