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  • Amusan bounces back, wins Eugene Diamond League

    Amusan bounces back, wins Eugene Diamond League

    Nigeria’s Tobi Amusan won her third consecutive Diamond League title after winning the women’s 100m hurdles at the Eugene Diamond League on Sunday.

    Amusan bounced back to winning ways to beat strong contenders, including Jasmine Camacho-Quinn, Keni Harrison and Danielle Williams.

    Recall that she finished 6th in the 2023 World Athletic championship in Budapest, Hungary last month.

    However, the 26-year-old won the race in a season’s best time of 12.33s.

    Camacho-Quinn of Puerto Rico was second in 12.38s, while Harrison of the United States of America came third in 12.44s.

    Amusan is the second woman to win the 100m hurdles event in the Diamond League for three successive years, emulating Dawn Harper-Nelson, who won it in 2012, 2023 and 2014.

    Another Nigerian, Ese Brume came second in the Long Jump event.

    Brume finished second behind Serbia’s Ivana Vuleta.

  • Nigeria’s Tobi Amusan Sets New Record, Wins 100m Hurdles At Silesia Diamond League

    Nigeria’s Tobi Amusan Sets New Record, Wins 100m Hurdles At Silesia Diamond League

    World record holder, Tobi Amusan, on Sunday, set a meeting record to win the 100m women’s hurdles at the 2023 Silesia Diamond League.

    The Nigerian only caught American Kendra Harrison on the line in a thrilling race to set a meeting record with 12.34 seconds.

    Amusan had on 2 July, 2023, won the gold medal at the 100 metres hurdles at the at the  Stockholm Diamond League.

    The Nigerian hurdler who holds the World Record in the event, ran a time of 12.52 seconds to emerge winner of the race

    Speaking on the milestone, Amusan said, “It was not easy for me with injuries in my hamstring and my knee. But I trusted in my coach and my work. It’s all about the process. I just won this in a smooth style, I was just running. Honestly, I had no idea that I won when I crossed the finish line.”

  • Diamond League: Amusan dusts closest rivals, set another record

    Diamond League: Amusan dusts closest rivals, set another record

    The rave of the moment, Nigeria’s Tobi Amusan has recorded another golden feat by clinching the women’s 100 metres hurdles at the Diamond League in Zurich on Thursday.

    Amusan finished her race in  12.29 seconds to dust her closest rival, Camacho-Quin of Puerto-Rico to coast home to victory in Zurich.

    America’s Tia Jones finished second with 12.40secs  12.29 seconds came third with 12.42secs. Camacho-Quin finished in fourth place.

    The Nigerian had won the Diamond League title last year in 12.42 seconds. She also set an African record.

    “12.29! ”  “Tobi Amusan defends her #DiamondLeague title with a new meeting record in the women’s 100m hurdles!” the Diamond League wrote.

    Amusan has been blazing high in recent times after setting world record at the World Atletics championship in Oregon.

    During the semi-final of the event, Amusan clocked 12.12 seconds to smash the world record at Hayward Field.

    She also consolidated on her feats by winning a gold medal at the commonwealth games with games record of 12.30secs thereby defending the title she won four years ago at the same competition.

    That same month, she finished second in the women’s 100m hurdles at the Athletissima Diamond League meeting in Lausanne, Switzerland.

    The world champion and world record holder was beaten to the first spot by Puerto Rica’s Jasmine Camacho-Quinn who ran a meet record of 12.34 seconds at the event.

    With her 12.29secs feat in Zurich, Amusan broke the 22-year-old meeting record set by America’s Gail Dever in the 100m hurdles