Two Nigerian competitors will be running in the semifinals of the ladies' 100m subsequent to Blessing Okagbare and Nzubechi Grace Nwokocha qualified from their separate heats Friday in Tokyo, Japan. This is the first time since 2012.

Nwokocha needed to run another individual best of 11.00 seconds to qualify for the semifinal round in her introduction at the Games. 

The 20 year old has likewise moved into fifth in the Nigeria record-breaking list behind Okagbare (10.79), Glory Alozie (10.90) Mary Onyali (10.97) and Damola Osayomi (10.99). 

The Nigeria-based competitor who ran 11.09 seconds to get her qualification for the Olympics in March at the MOC Grand Prix in Lagos will anyway have to make further history by breaking the 11 seconds boundary as the fifth Nigerian lady to do so in order to join Onyali and Okagbare as debutants who ran right to the finals. 

She has been assigned to run from lane nine in the third semifinal round heat with the fastest woman alive, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce of Jamaica, Daryl Neita of Great Britain, Teahna Daniels of the USA and individual African, Muriel Ahoure of Ivory Coast. 

While Nwokocha qualified for her first semifinal round, Okagbare will be running in her third since she made her presentation in the occasion at the 2012 Olympics in London. The 32 year old ran 11.05 seconds to win her initially round heat. 

She has been assigned to the first semifinal heat alongside two heavyweights of the event, reigning champ Elaine Thompson-Herah of Jamaica who ran 10.82 seconds to win her initially round warmth and Great Britain's Dina Asher-Smith, the 200m best on the planet two years prior in Doha, Qatar who ran 11.07 seconds to come second in her first round heat. 

The 2008 Beijing Olympics Long Jump silver medalist will be in real life at precisely 11.15 am Nigerian time on Saturday.