Earlier in the day, we brought you the full schedule of ALL Team Nigeria Athletes competing at the ongoing Rio 2016 Olympic Games. The exception was in the women’s 100m Heats as the startlist was yet to be determined when it was published because of the preliminary rounds.

Now that the Heats and startlist have been sorted, here’s a lowdown of the Top athletes competing and who they’ll be competing against. You can follow Making of Champions on any of our social media platforms for LIVE TWEETS on Twitter and POSTS on Facebook throughout the day.

Women’s 100m Heat 1

2:40am – African Champion, Murielle Ahoure vs. Great Britain’s Desiree Henry

Women’s 100m Heat 2

2:47am – Nigerian Bronze medallist, Gloria Asumnu vs. World 100m Silver medallist, Dafne Schippers of Netherlands and Ghana’s Flings Owusu-Agyapong.

Women’s 100m Heat 3

2:54am – Nigerian Champion, Blessing Okagbare vs. USA’s Tori Bowie and Norway’s Ezinne Okparaebo

Women’s 100m Heat 4

3:01am – African 200m Champion, Marie-Josee Ta Lou vs Olympic Champion, Shelly Ann Fraser-Pryce of Jamaica

Women’s 100m Heat 5

3:08am – Nigeria’s Jeannifer Madu vs. USA’s Tianna Bartoletta and Poland’s Ewa Swoboda

Women’s 100m Heat 7

3:22am – South Africa’s Alyssa Conley vs. Jamaica’s Elaine Thompson

Women’s 100m Heat 8

3:27am – South Africa’s Carina Horn vs. USA’s English Gardner and Bulgaria’s Ivet Lalova-Collio

NOTE: All events can be watched LIVE on SuperSport (SS4)

Fraser Pryce will be hoping to prove critics wrong when she tries to defend her 100m Olympic title
Fraser Pryce will be hoping to prove critics wrong when she tries to defend her 100m Olympic title

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Funmi Fameso is a Junior Sports Writer at Making of Champions. She is a 2012 Graduate of Lagos State University, where she obtained a BSc in Microbiology. She worked as a Health Centre Laboratory Assistant during her NYSC year and since then she has worked as a Junior Sports Writer for her church’s youth magazine, Kingsword Youth Club Magazine. It was watching the Sydney 2000 Olympics that ignited her passion of sports, most especially Athletics. Sports means three things to her: Passion, Hard Work and Dedication!

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