This performance in Boston replaces the previous record of 7.77 seconds set in Kazakhstan at the Astana Indoor Meet in January.
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In a statement signed by Tony Nezianya, Public Relations Officer, NOC and made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos, Habu Gumel, NOC’s President, described Amusan’s loss as a temporary setback.
Nigeria’s Tobi Amusan has lost the final of the 100m hurdles event at the ongoing World Championships in Budapest, Hungary.
Amusan, who ran in lane seven, returned in a time of 12.56 seconds to finish first in Heat 2 of the semi-final.
Globally celebrated hurdle champion, Tobi Amusan, tackled an Irish journalist at the World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary, for a question asked about the charges laid against her after the women’s 100-metre hurdle heats.
Nigeria’s athlete, Tobi Amusan has qualified for the semi-final of the women’s 100 meters hurdles at the 2023 World Athletics Championship.
Aliu made the appeal in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Friday in Lagos, urging Amusan to put behind her the suspension saga by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU).
Amusan lowered the world record from 12.20 seconds to 12.12 in the semifinals of last July’s worlds in Eugene, Oregon
The Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) has handed Nigeria’s Tobi Amusan a provisional suspension for allegedly missing drug tests.
Tobi Amusan, Nigeria’s queen of the tracks and Women’s hurdles world record-holder has dismissed a doping rule violation charge levelled on her by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU).
American Kendra Harrison came a close second after Amusan caught up with her in a nail-biting race to the finish line.
At the Lausanne Diamond League on Friday, Amusan finished in second position in the 100 metres hurdles event
The confirmation signaled the beginning of the voting process for the 2022 World Athletes of the Year ahead of the World Athletics Awards 2022.
This was made public in a statement issued by Governor Abiodun’s Chief Press Secretary, Kunle Somorin, indicating that the announcement was made when the Governor hosted Amusan Tuesday, at his Oke Mosan Office, Abeokuta, the state capital.
Okowa’s felicitation was contained in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Olisa Ifeajika, on Tuesday in Asaba.
The Nigerian speed star breasted the tape in 12.30 seconds to successfully defend the title she won in Tokyo
The quartet of Tobi Amusan, Favour Ofili, Rosemary Chukwuma and Grace Nwokocha ran fervently to clinch another gold in the 4x100m women’s relay event on Sunday with a time of 42.10s, thereby, setting another African Record.
Amusan knew where the gold was, and she fled towards it, dusting a field of champions to smash the 100-metre hurdles world record in the semifinal at 12:12, racing again 90 minutes after to snatch gold in the final. It was an unbelievable fairy tale. And Amusan wept!
A cocktail of other negative stories cascaded out. Police station attacked in Ondo, cop killed. Bandits kill many in Kaduna, Taraba, Plateau. Later in the day, we heard of bandits attacking troops of the Guards Brigade, with three soldiers dead. And the Nigerian Labour Congress, in the midst of it all, was threatening to shut down the country in sympathy protests with the striking academic staff of universities. It never rains, it pours.
Amusan’s feat set a new world record in the semifinals of the athletic event, as she becomes the first Nigerian to win a World Championship.