. Comes 2nd
behind Usain Bolt
Nigeria’s
Divine Oduduru has qualified for the semi final of the 200m at the ongoing Rio
Olympic after finishing in 2nd behind Usain Bolt in the heats.
Oduduru who
was running from Lane 8, attacked the curve very fast and maintained his speed
down the home straight, to wade off at least 4 other athletes who had better
Personal Bests (PBs) and Season’s Bests (SBs).
Usain Bolt
ran a time of 20.28 seconds while Nigeria’s Oduduru ran 20.34 seconds. The
Nigerian has now qualified for the semi-finals.
Oduduru said
he is happy over his achievement as he expressed joy for having hand shake with
the world’s fastest man Usain Bolt.
“It was nice
to shake hands with the big man @usainbolt after the race. I am humbled,” Oduduru
twitted.
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