Nigeria-born British runner, Christine Ohuruogu, snatched victory from defending champion Amantle Montsho with a desperate lunge to the line in the women’s 400 metres at the world championships on Monday.
Ohuruogu, world champion in 2007, has a reputation as a big race performer and did not disappoint the British fans noisily screaming her on in the half-empty Luzhniki stadium, winning in a time of 49.41 seconds.
Botswana’s Montsho will despair the fact she did not dip at the end after being given the same time in second with Russian Antonina Krivoshapka taking bronze in 49.78.
Ohuruogu, notorious for leaving it late in races, was fourth coming off the final bend but charged down the home straight to catch Montsho on the line.
