Tobi Amusan, Nigeria’s sprint queen, has qualified for the women’s 100m hurdles final at the Tokyo 2025 World Championships. This comes after Amusan won victory in her semifinal heat. The 27-year-old clocked an impressive 12.36 seconds (-0.2) to secure her spot in the final. The Nigerian finished ahead of the Netherlands’ Nadine Visser and Poland’s…
World champion Tobi Amusan qualified for the 100-meter hurdles semi-finals in the ongoing 2024 Olympics in Paris today. Amusan led the pack of eight athletes with 12.49 seconds, followed by America’s Alaysha Johnson with 12.61 and Jamaica’s Janeek Brown qualified with 12.84 seconds. Amusan is certainly among the favourites for the gold medal, but that…
Tobi Amusan has set new African women’s indoor record in 60 metres after running 7.75 seconds at the New Balance Indoor Gand Prix in Boston. Amusan’s 7.75 seconds performance at Boston means she retired the 7.77 record she earlier set in Kazakhstan at the Astana Indoor Meet in January. Though an African record, the 7.75…
Nigeria’s Tobi Amusan has qualified for the final of the 100m hurdles event at the ongoing World Championships in Budapest, Hungary. Amusan, running in lane seven, won the second semi-final with a time of 12:56 seconds despite having a slow start. Ackera Nugent enjoyed an early lead before Amusan snatched victory at the finishing line….
Nigerian track and field athlete, Tobi Amusan has expressed happiness after she qualified for the women’s 100 metres hurdles semi-finals yesterday, in Budapest. According to reports Amusan won her qualifying heat in the women’s 100 metres hurdles to secure a spot in the semi-finals. The 26-year-old, whose world record is 12.12, was slow out of…