American Kendra Harrison came a close second after Amusan caught up with her in a nail-biting race to the finish line.
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The restructuring was done due to travel restrictions and quarantine requirements.
Amusan did not just become the first Nigerian to win a Diamond League trophy, she did it in style on Thursday.
Diamond League action could return in the late summer and autumn, with a shortened, provisional calendar having been published by World Athletics.
The Diamond League athletics meeting due to be held at the London Stadium from July 4 to June 5 has been cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic, UK Athletics said on Tuesday.
The events in Eugene and Paris were due to take place on June 7 and June 13 respectively, while Oslo’s meet is scheduled for June 11
Blake, the second-fastest in the field this season behind Akani Simbine of South Africa, edged Great Britain’s Adam Gemili
It was Okagbare’s 60th appearance in the prestigious Diamond League and she marked it with her first-ever win in Rabat.
Caster Semenya has denied declining to race at Sunday’s Diamond League Meeting in Morocco, instead claiming organisers “made it impossible for her” to run.
Caster Semenya will compete in the 3,000 metres at the Diamond League’s Prefontaine Classic in Stanford, California on June 30, a distance she can race without reducing her testosterone levels.
The dates were scheduled for the top-tier outdoor and indoor competitions next year to give athletes more consistent competition as they prepare for the 2019 IAAF World Championships.
Kenya’s javelin star Julius Yego and world 5,000m champion Hellen Obiri are among the elite athletes eyeing a return to the African Athletics Championships, having missed out in the 2016 edition in Durban, South Africa
Bolt laboured to a 10.06 seconds 100 metres victory in the Czech Republic last month and immediately travelled to see his doctor, German Hans-Wilhelm Mueller-Wohlfahrt, for some treatment on the back issues that have troubled him for years.
Ujah, 23, achieved a season’s best of 9.98 seconds and beat the record of 10.12 held by American Justin Gatlin.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Okagbare is a World Championships silver medallist and is ranked 18th in the world in 200m
Drug-tainted sprinters, Justin Gatlin and Tyson Gay, will go head to head in an explosive 100m at Thursday’s Diamond League…