Blessing Ibrahim gained her first international experience at the Junior African Championships 2009 in Bambous , where she won the gold medal in the three jump with 12.89 m and the bronze medal in the long jump with 5.75 m. The following year she finished seventh at the African Championships in Nairobi with 13.30 m and in 2011 she was sixth at the African Games in Maputo with 13.17 m. In 2012 she reached fifth place at the African Championships in Porto-Novo with 13.44 m and two years later she won the bronze medal at the championships in Marrakech with 13.35 m behind Cameroonian Joëlle Mbumi Nkouindjin and Nadia Eke from Ghana. At the 2015 African Games in Brazzaville , she won the silver medal behind Mbumi with 13.52 m and was ninth in the long jump with a distance of 5.84 m. In 2018 she took part in the Commonwealth Games in the Australian Gold Coast for the first time and finished fifth there with 13.48 m. In August she finished sixth at the African Championships in Asaba with 12.97 m.
From 2012 to 2017 and 2019, Ibrahim was the Nigerian triple jump champion every year.
Personal best
Long jump: 6.17 m (+1.0 m / s), July 11, 2015 in Akure
Triple jump: 13.82 m (+1.0 m / s), July 6, 2012 in Kumasi
Nigeria
