She ran her season's best timing of 22.84 seconds and finished 3rd position behind Dina Asher-Smith of Great Britain and Favour Ofili of Nigeria in heat 6 of round 1.
The country’s track queen will compete in the Women 200m semi-finals later today, Monday, and hope to secure her place in the finals to be held tomorrow, Tuesday.
The 29-year-old finished 3rd position in the Women 100m semi-finals on Saturday with a timing of 11.10 seconds. The finish was not enough to earn her a place in the finals.
Meanwhile, The Gambia’s hope of winning its first ever Olympics medal in athletics surely rest on Gina Mariam Bass Bittaye now following Ebrima Camara and Sanu Jallow’s failure to qualify to the semi-finals of their respective competitions.
Ebrima Camara, who emerged 1st position in his men 100m preliminary race with a timing of 10.29 seconds narrowly missed a chance to qualify for the semi-finals after finishing 4th position in his heat 6 race with an improved timing of 10.21 seconds. Both races took place within an hour apart on the same day, Saturday 3rd August 2024 at Stade De France.
Nesta, as he is fondly called was making his second Olympics appearance for The Gambia.
Ebrima currently holds the National Record in the 100m sprint with a best of 9.98. He is also the first Gambian sprinter to go under 10 seconds.
Sanu Jallow, on the other hand finished 7th position in her women 800m heat on Friday but was given a repechage (second chance) on Saturday. However, she failed to secure a semi-final spot after finishing 6th position with a timing of 2:04.44.
The results mean the end of the road for both Ebrima and Sanu in the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
Meanwhile, the Gambia’s track queen, Gina Mariam Bass Bittaye will take to the track later this evening when she competes in the women 200m semi-final race.
She will be hoping to qualify for the finals and possibly win The Gambia its first ever Olympic Games medal.
She currently holds national records in the women 100 and 200 metres.
The three times Olympian set a 100 metres national record of 11.12 seconds for The Gambia at the 2020 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, Japan.
