CGames: Nigeria's Okagbare wins women's 100m

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Nigeria's Blessing Okagbare won women's 100m gold at the Commonwealth Games on Monday.
Okagbare, who won long jump silver and 200m bronze at the 2013 world championships, clocked a Games record of 10.85sec.
Jamaican duo Veronica Campbell-Brown and Kerron Stewart took silver and bronze at Hampden Park in 11.03 and 11.07sec respectively.

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