Tag: Amusan
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Amusan misses Women’s Olympics 100m hurdles final spot
Amusan misses Women’s Olympics 100m hurdles final spot World record-holder Oluwatobiloba Amusan on Friday failed to fulfill her promise of a medal as she finished below the qualification range at the Paris Olympic Games. Amusan who has been Team Nigeria’s brightest hope for a medal, especially in the face of several losses in the contingent’s Paris 2024…
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Amusan sets new world record in 100m hurdles
Amusan sets new world record in 100m hurdles World record holder, Tobi Amusan is now the fastest woman in the women’s 100m hurdles this year after running a blistering 12.40s to win the inaugural Jamaica Athletics Invitational in Kingston, winning the race ahead of Jamaican and world champion, Danielle Williams. For most of the race, Amusan…
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Amusan sets new 60m hurdles record in Kazakhstan
Amusan sets new 60m hurdles record in Kazakhstan Tobi Amusan returned to the track for the time in 2024 with another blistering performance as the former World Champion set a new African record in the 60m hurdles after running 7.77secs to win the Astana Indoor Meet in Kazakhstan. Amusan, the 2022 100m hurdles World champion…
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Nigeria’s Sports Minister ‘intervenes’ in Osimhen, Amusan’s cases
Nigeria’s Sports Minister ‘intervenes’ in Osimhen, Amusan’s cases Minister of Sports Development, Sen John Enoh, said he has started making efforts to resolve the issue between Nigeria’s Super Eagles forward, Victor Osimhen and his Italian club side, Napoli. Recall that Osimhen was mocked in a TikTok video by Napoli’s official following his penalty miss against Bologna in…
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Despite losing 100m hurdles title, NOC expresses solidarity with Amusan
Despite losing 100m hurdles title, NOC expresses solidarity with Amusan The Board of the Nigeria Olympic Committee (NOC) has reached out to offer Tobi Amusan, some comforting words in the light of the race yesterday in Budapest where she lost out in the finals, placing 6th in 12.62 secs. The NOC in a statement by…
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World Sports Awards: Amusan, Messi, Mbappe listed for honours
Nigeria’s World and Commonwealth hurdles champion, Tobi Amusan has joined the league of all times great sports personalities shortlisted for the 2023 Laureus World Sports Awards. The nominations for the Awards were made public via Laureus twitter handle on Monday afternoon. Amusan,who broke the 100m hurdles world record on the way to claiming Nigeria’s first-ever…
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Amusan jumps to 5th in world athletics rankings
Nigeria’s track sensations Tobi Amusan and Ese Brume have made giant leaps in the World Athletics Women Chart. From being ranked 43rd in September 2021, Tobi Amusan is now in the top 10, moving up 38 places to be ranked 5th in the world while her compatriot and friend Ese Brume moved up 32 places…
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Paris 2024 Olympics: Amusan, Brume, others to run outside Stade de France
Nigeria track and field athletes as well as their contemporaries all over the world may compete on the streets of France at Olympics. This development may come to fruition as World Athletics President, Sebastian Coe, has expressed interest in conducting athletics events outside the Stade de France during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. According to insidethegames,…
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Amusan loses race, finishes second in Lausanne Diamond League
World and Commonwealth Games record holder, Tobi Amusan has finished second in the women’s 100m Hurdles at the ongoing Diamond League in Lausanne, Switzerland. The Nigerian star athlete who was all out to continue from where she left off in Birmingham lost to 2020 Tokyo Olympics winner, Jasmine Camacho-Quinn of Puerto Rico who came in…