Tobi Amusan Breaks World 100M Hurdles Record Of 12.12 Seconds In Oregon On Sunday 24 July

On Sunday, 24 July 2022, Nigerian track and field athlete, Tobi Amusan became the first Nigerian to win gold at a world athletics championship, when Amusan took a crown at the Womens 100 Meter Hurdle event in Oregon. EUGENE, Ore., USA (25th).

Tobi Amusan set the world record in a stunning time of 12.12 seconds (0.9 meters per second) during the semifinals of the womens 100m hurdles event of the 2022 World Athletics Championships at Hayward Field here in Eugene, Ore., on Sunday (24) and returned for an even faster time in the final. EUGENE, Ore. (AP) -- Nigeria's Tobi Amusan set a world record that almost no one saw coming, crossing the finish line in the womens 100m hurdles semi-final heat in the World Athletics Championships in Sunday's heat with a time of 12.12 seconds in the womens 100m hurdles on Sunday in the World Athletics Championships. EUGENE, Ore. -- Nigeria's Tobi Amusan set a world record in the semifinals, then ran a still-faster, wind-aided time in the final on Sunday to capture the 100-meter hurdles gold medal at the Track and Field World Championships.

Sprint hurdler Oluwatobi Amusan won Nigeria's first gold medal of the World Championships early Monday and set the world record with 12.12 seconds at Oregon 2022 in USA. Amusan, who ran 12.40 for an African record to win his heat Saturday, had the fastest opening-round time in World Championships history. Nigeria's Tobi Amusan has romped to victory in the final of the 100-metre hurdles event at the World Championships, held in Eugene, U.S., becoming the first Amusan-born athlete to win gold in such an event. Nigerian Tobi Amusan got the ball rolling in the first of three semifinal heats, running in 12.12 seconds to smash a world record and overshadowing attempts by the former 100 meters hurdles world record holders, the U.S.s Kendra Harrison, and Jamaica Danielle Williams.

Nigeria's Tobi Amusan exploded for the world record of 12.12 seconds to take top honors at the womens 100-metre hurdles semifinals, shaving 0.08% from the previous record, which was set by the U.S. Kendra Harrison in 2016. Nigerian track star Tobi Amusan ran a 12.12-second halftime time at Hayward Field Sunday, breaking American Keni Harrisons 12.20-second world record from 2016. Nigeria's Tobi Amusan broke the world record set by Keni Harrison at last year's Games, where she contested in the same semifinal heat and finished in second place. A day after breaking an African heat record, Tobi Amusan returned on the raucous track at Hayward Field in Eugene and broke a world record, then broke an incredible wind-aided time of 12.06 seconds (+2.5 meters per second) in the final, to claim gold just under two hours later.

Amusans semi-final run saw her claim a new world record time of 12.12 seconds, bettering the previous mark of 12.20 seconds set by U.S. Kendra Harrison in 2016. Less than two hours later, in the final, with Harrison lining up next to her, Amusan ran a better time (12.06), but a higher in-race wind gust was higher than allowed. Unfortunately, a faster time does not count for the record books, as the wind speed was above the allowable limit. The sprint hurdler, at last, lowered his time from 12.12 seconds, which he had recorded in the semi-finals, to 12.06 seconds, which was again the world record.

Running against a field comprising some of the biggest sprint hurdlers in the world, sprint hurdler broke out from the blocks just like in the semi-final, touching the finish line in 12.06secs. Even before the final event, she was guaranteed $100,000 bonus money to break her own 12.12secs world record. U.S. Olympic silver medalist Kendra Harrison, who broke the 2016 record in Amusan during a semifinal race at Hayward Field, was disqualified. Amusan had always shown promise, but the last hurdle had always seemed impassable -- until 2022 at Oregon, when she broke through for a world title, thus becoming Nigeria's first-ever world champ.

Nigeria's Tobi Amusan broke the world record for womens 100m hurdles with a blistering semi-final performance at the world athletics championships in Oregon, USA, and then went on to capture gold in the final. Womens 100m Hurdles World Championships The World Athletics Championships promises to be just as thrilling as its fielding suggests in its final days, as the world, national and individual records are broken everywhere in Hayward Field. The U.S. turned a tight 4x400-meter relay into a laughingstock Sunday in the anchor leg, giving America the ultimate World Championships seal of approval and earning the nation's 33rd-highest medal haul at the meet. The 25-year-old memorable, world-record-setting performance in the womens 100-meter hurdles helped earn her first-ever global gold medal, as well as the first-ever Nigerian gold medal in a World Championship.

The world title made Olympic champ Athing Mu the youngest female ever to hold both Olympic and world titles in a single athletics competition. American Olympic gold medalist Athing Mu extended her season-winning streak to one in the 800 meters, winning the world title in one minute, 56.30 seconds.

The 2.95-second blast past Jamaica was particularly sweet because it was also the 14th and final world gold of 36-year-old Allyson Felix, who came out of retirement to race the prelims in the 4x400 and, as such, earned a medal. The level of competition was record-setting, such that a time of 12.52 meant the competitors did not even get into the final, even though that was the time she would win world titles in six prior world titles. World Athletics has since clarified that the 2.5% tailwind nullified the final winning time of 12.06 as the world record, but Amoosan ran a 12.12 time in the semi-finals, breaking the world record for the 100m hurdles by Keny Harrison, 12.20.