Joy Udo Gabriel won the 60m dash at the DII Indoor Championships to be crowned an NCAA Champion. She broke her DII record, set a Meet & School Record as well as now ranks 10th in Nigeria’s history.
Former Nigerian sprint queen Joy Udo-Gabriel bounced back to national reckoning after winning the 60m title in a record-breaking time at the NCAA DII Championships on Saturday.
The 25-year-old stormed to a new Personal Best (PB) of 7.11s to win the women’s 60m event at the NCAA Division II Indoor Championships with her time lowering her DII record of 7.13s set earlier this month.
Her outstanding run saw her easily see off Alexis Brown who ran 7.28s to finish second and E’lexis Hollis was third in 7.36s.
Udo-Gabriel’s brilliant mark is the second fastest time by a Nigerian this year behind Tima Godbless’ 7.08s and joint 10th in the Nigerian all-time list with 1999 World Athletics Championships’ 100m finalist, Mercy Nku.
The Missouri Southern State University student-athlete has now put the US collegiate circuit on notice and will be one of the favourites for an exceptional outdoor season.
In addition, she has unarguably blazed her way back in the Nigerian national team, as her last outing for the country was at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.
At international level, Udo-Gabriel won 100m bronze medal at the 2018 African Championships, a 4x100m bronze medal at the 2018 Commonwealth Games, as well as 4x100m relay gold medal at the 2019 African Games.
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