Grace Nwokocha misses out 200m final after finishing 4th in semifinal heat

Grace Nwokocha will not have the opportunity to compete in the final event of the Women’s 200m at the Tokyo Olympics.

The 20-year-old Nigerian failed to qualify for the medals event having finished fourth in the semifinal on Monday.

Nwokocha arrived at 22.47 seconds in fourth place as Arie-Josee Ta Lou of Ivory Coast came first in the Heat.

Nigerian athlete Grace Nwokocha will not take part in the medals event of the Women’s 200m at the ongoing Olympic Games in Tokyo, BBC reports.

Despite her set back in the Women’s 100m sprint, Nwokocha earlier ran her personal best of 22.47 seconds in Heat 1 of the event to finish third and picked up one of the automatic tickets to the semis.

Marie-Josee Ta Lou of Ivory Coast came first in that Heat after she arrived the finish line with 22.30 seconds, while the Bahamas’ Shaunae Miller-Uibo was second with 22.40 seconds, via Olympics.com.

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