By Ben Efe
Amata
ALL Africa Games high jump champion, Doreen Amata continued her excellent run of form this season with a 1.94m jump at the IAAF world challenge in Dakar, Senegal.
Also Patience Okon-George won the women 400m with a 52.12 seconds in the meet where only five Nigerian athletes showed their presence. In the men’s 100m American Nigerian import, Mark Jelks finished 10.20 seconds to place a joint fifth with Gambia’s Adama Jammeh in the race won by Ramon Gittens of Barbados with 10.08. South Africans Roscoe Engel and Henricho Bruintjies were second and third with 10.12 and 10.16 seconds respectively.
However, Jelks jerked up his performance in the 200m where he ran 20.88 seconds, but was placed third behind Bruintjies and Jammeh who returned at 20.71 and 20.75 in respective order.
The other two Nigerian athletes at the meet where Amaka Ogoegbunam who ran 54. 06 in the women 400m, and Nkem Ezeleah who ran 11. 54 seconds to finish third in the women 100m race that was won by Marie-Josee Ta Lou of Cote’d Ivoire with 11.08.
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