19-year-old Favour Ofili Breaks National Record

A Nigeria athlete,Favour Chukwuka Ofili has broken Blessing Okagbare's 200 metres National record,at the Jones Memorial Classic 2022.

Okagbare previously held the National record since 2018 with a time of 22:04 secs 

  Favour with the time of  21:96 secs, took the women 200m at the Tom Jones Invitational in Florida,ahead of Kamaya Debose-Epps, who ran 22.81secs and Jonah Ross who ran 22:91secs.

 Ofili ran a blistering 21.96 secs to become the first collegian athlete to ever go sub 22 secs. She has set a new National records, NCAA records. Her time was also the fastest ever in NCAA. She also emerged as the first Nigerian female to break 22 secs in the women's zoom.