World Athletics Ratifies Amusan’s 100m Hurdles Record
THE World Athletics, on Tuesday, September 20, ratified the women’s world 100m hurdles record set at this year’s World Championships in Oregon, United States (US) by Nigeria’s Tobiloba Amusan.
The governing body of World Athletics, in a statement confirming Amusan’s feat, alongside the world records of Mondo Duplantis and Sydney McLaughin, said: “The world records set by Tobi Amusan, Mondo Duplantis and Sydney McLaughlin at the World Athletics Championships Oregon 22 have been ratified.
Amusan’s 12.12 in the women’s 100m hurdles semi-finals, Duplantis’s 6.21m in the men’s pole vault final and McLaughlin’s 50.68 in the women’s 400m hurdles final are all now officially in the record books, as is the world U20 mark of 9.94 set by Letsile Tebogo in the men’s 100m heats.”
Amusan is also the current African, Commonwealth and world champion in the 100m hurdles and holds the race record in the three competitions.
On 15 September, this year, Amusan was conferred in Abuja with the Officer of the Order of the Niger (OON) by President Muhammadu Buhari, along with other medal winners, such as Ese Brume.
