All You Need To Know About Tobi Amusan, Winner Of World Athletics Championships

Nigerian Tobi Amusan has stormed to victory in the 100 metres hurdles final at the World Championships held in Eugene, United States, becoming the first athlete from her country to win gold at such an event.

The 25-year-old’s 12.06-second performance on Sunday was initially announced as a world record but was later ruled ineligible as the wind speed exceeded the legal limit.

Amusan had broken the world record earlier in the day by clocking 12.12 seconds in the semi-final at Hayward Field.

In the final, she recovered from a slightly slower start to put on a pristine performance over the barriers, 0.17 seconds clear of silver medallist Britany Anderson of Jamaica.

All You Need To Know About Tobi Amusan, Winner Of World Athletics Championships

 

Below Is All You Need To Know About Tobi Amusan;

Biography

Oluwatobiloba Ayomide “Tobi” Amusan (born 23 April 1997) is a Nigerian track and field athlete who specialises in the 100 metres hurdles and also competes as a sprinter.

She won the 2022 World Athletics Championships in the 100 metres hurdles, setting a new world record of 12.12 seconds in the semifinal, then a 12.06 in the final.

She was the 2018 Commonwealth and 2018 African champion and is also a two-time African Games champion in the event. She won the Diamond League Trophy in Zurich in 2021 in the 100m hurdles.

Early Life & Education

Oluwatobiloba Amusan was born on the 23rd of April, 1997, in Ijebu Ode, situated in Ogun State, Nigeria. She is a famous Nigerian athlete. After she completed her secondary school education, she started her early life as an athlete.

Career

Amusan showed a lot of athletic potential from an early age. She was a silver medallist at the 2013 African Youth Championships in Warri. She also claimed gold in the 100 metres hurdles at the 2015 African Junior Athletics Championships in Addis Ababa. In 2015, while making her All-Africa Games debut as an eighteen-year-old, she won the gold medal in the 100 metres hurdles.

2016

In 2016, as a freshman for The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP), Amusan became the second athlete for the university to be named C-USA Female Track athlete of the Year since UTEP joined C-USA. She was the gold medallist in both the 100 mH and the 200 m.

She also claimed a silver in the long jump at the C-USA Championships. Amusan first broke the 13 s barrier in the hurdles with a time of 12.83 s at the El Paso UTEP Invitational. This eclipsed Kim Turner’s 100 mH UTEP record which had stood for 33 years. She was runner-up at the 2016 NCAA Outdoor Championships in the 100 mH.

She ran a windy 12.79 s behind Kentucky’s Jasmine Camacho-Quinn. Amusan also competed at the 2016 World Junior Championships in Bydgoszcz. Despite running her second fastest time ever, she placed fifth in the final. She went on to represent Nigeria at the Rio Olympic Games, reaching the semifinals of the 100 mH.

2017

In her first outdoor race of 2017, she ran a then lifetime best and UTEP record of 12.63 s in the 100 metres hurdles. She was the C-USA champion in her specialist event and also the runner-up in the 200 metres.

At the 2017 NCAA Outdoor Championships, there was a reversal of finishes in the 100 metres hurdles. In a dramatic race, Amusan claimed the title ahead of Camacho-Quinn who was the champion the previous year.

She did this in a personal record time of 12.57 s. She also represented Nigeria at the World Championships in London later in the year.

2018

She ran a personal best of 7.89 s in the 60 metres hurdles at the start of her 2018 season. She went on to represent her country at the Birmingham World Indoor Championships reaching the final of the 60 metres hurdles.

At the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia, 2015 World Champion, Danielle Williams seemed to be the favourite to take the title in the absence of Sally Pearson.

In the final, however, Amusan moved ahead of her competitors and won the race by a clear metre ahead of Williams. She also won a bronze medal in the 4 x 100 m relay with her teammates, Joy Udo-Gabriel, Blessing Okagbare and Rosemary Chukwuma.

Later in the year, she won her first African Championships title in her specialist event at the Asaba African Championships. This fulfilled a Nigerian tradition as Judy Bell-Gam had won this race for Nigeria at the first African Championships. She also claimed a gold medal in the 4 x 100 m relay at the championships.

2021

Amusan finished fourth in the Tokyo Olympics with a time of 12.60s. She later competed in the Zurich Diamond League event, which she won in 12.42s, becoming the first Nigerian to win a Diamond League trophy.

International Competitions

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event
2022	African Championships	Port Louis, Mauritius	1st	100 m hurdles
2021	Olympic Games	Tokyo, Japan	4th	100 m hurdles
2021	Olympic Games	Tokyo, Japan	12th (h)	4 × 100 m relay
2019	African Games	Rabat, Morocco	1st	100 m hurdles
2019	World Championships	Doha, Qatar	4th	100 m hurdles
2018	World Indoor Championships	Birmingham, United Kingdom	7th	60 m hurdles
2018	Commonwealth Games	Gold Coast, Australia	1st	100 m hurdles
2018	Commonwealth Games	Gold Coast, Australia	3rd	4 × 100 m relay
2018	African Championships	Asaba, Nigeria	1st	100 m hurdles
2018	African Championships	Asaba, Nigeria	1st	4 × 100 m relay
2018	Continental Cup	Ostrava, Czech Republic	5th	100 m hurdles
2018	Continental Cup	Ostrava, Czech Republic	—	4 × 100 m relay
2017	World Championships	London, United Kingdom	14th (sf)	100 m hurdles
2016	World U20 Championships	Bydgoszcz, Poland	5th	100 m hurdles
2016	Olympic Games	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	11th (sf)	100 m hurdles
2015	African Junior Championships	Addis Ababa	1st	100 m hurdles
2015	African Games	Brazzaville, Republic of Congo	1st	100 m hurdles
2014	World Junior Championships	Eugene, United States	—	100 m hurdles
2014	African Youth Games	Gaborone, Botswana	2nd	100 m hurdles
2013	African Youth Championships	Warri, Nigeria	2nd	100 m hurdles
2013	African Youth Championships	Warri, Nigeria	3rd	Long jump

Personal bests

Outdoor

• 100 metres: 11.31 (2018)
• 150 metres: 18.68 (2014)
• 200 metres: 22.92 (2017)
• 300 metres: 40.90 (2014)
• 400 metres: 60.48 (2017)
• 100 metres hurdles: 12.12 (2022)
• Long jump: 6.07 m (2016)
• 4 × 100 metres relay: 42.75 (2018)
• 4 × 400 metres relay: 3:41.68 (2017)

Indoor

• 60 metres: 7.41 (2019)
• 200 metres: 23.35 (2017)
• 60 metres hurdles: 7.89 (2018)
• Long jump: 6.15 m (2017)

National titles

• NCAA Division I Women’s Outdoor Track and Field Championships
  • 100 m hurdles: 2017

Net Worth

Tobi Amusan is one of the richest and most renowned  Athletics in Nigeria. Many online sources have claimed that her net worth is estimated to be $1.5 million.

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