Nigeria’s Tobi Amusan has won the Women’s 100m hurdles at the Eugene Diamond League final to claim her third consecutive Diamond League trophy.
Amusan ran a time of 12:33 seconds to win the race ahead of Jasmine Camacho-Quinn, who came second with a time of 12.38 seconds while Kendra Harrison came third in a time of 12.44 seconds.
The World Record holder shook off her poor performance at the World Championship in Budapest to win the race by beating best.
Amusan is a Nigerian track and field athlete who specialises in the 100 metres hurdles and also competes as a sprinter.
She is the current World, Commonwealth and African champion in the 100 m hurdles, as well as the meet record holder in those three competitions.
Amusan became the first ever Nigerian world champion and world record holder in an athletics event when she won the 2022 World Championships 100 m hurdles gold medal, setting the current world record of 12.12 seconds (+0.9m/s) in the semi-final, followed up by a 12.06 seconds (+2.5m/s) in the final. She won back-to-back Commonwealth and African titles in 2018 and 2022 in the 100 m hurdles and is also a two-time African Games champion in the event
