Tobi Amusan wins 100m hurdles at Stockholm Diamond League
Nigerian athlete, Tobi Amusan made it look easy as she breezed past the field in the women’s 100m hurdles at Stockholm Diamond League.
The Ogun-born athlete over the weekend, won the hurdles which took place at the Olympic Stadium in Stockholm with an impressive time of 12.52 seconds.
Tobi Amusan finished first in the 100m hurdles at the Stockholm Diamond League, ahead of Sarah Lavin of Ireland who finished second with a personal best time of 12.73s, and Pia Skrzyszowska of Poland who clocked 12.78s in 3rd place.
Amusan’s time was lower than what she returned on Friday, June 30, in Lausanne, Switzerland, where she made 12.45 seconds to finish second behind Puerto Rico’s Jasmine Camacho-Quinn, who ran a meet record of 12.40 seconds.
12:52!
World record holder Tobi Amusan takes her first win of the #DiamondLeague season in the 100m hurdles.#StockholmDL 🇸🇪´
📷 @matthewquine pic.twitter.com/xuF8FA8BvG— Wanda Diamond League (@Diamond_League) July 2, 2023
Amusan who had a stellar 2022 where she delivered brilliant performances at the Diamond League, Commonwealth Games, and World Athletics Championships, became the first Nigerian world champion after she clocked a wind-aided 12.06 seconds, ineligible as a world record because of +2.5 meters per second strong wind.
She also won the gold medal at the 2022 Commonwealth Games before retaining her Diamond League title to put a brilliant wrap on her season.
Also in the world of athletics, another Nigerian athlete, Emmanuel Bamidele won the silver medal at the Stockholm Diamond League’s 400m race. He finished in 45.48 seconds behind South Africa’s Zakhiti Nene, who won the gold in 45.30 seconds.
World Championships silver medallist, Ese Brume, had a poor run at the league as she finished fifth in the women’s long jump.
Amusan, Brume, Emmanuel, and other Nigerian athletes competing in the Diamond League are expected in Benin today, July 3, to compete in the Athletics Federation of Nigeria’s (AFN) national trials, which is the qualifier for this year’s World Athletics Championships billed to hold in Budapest, Hungary.
