Queen of Hurdles, Tobi Amusan’s 100m hurdles record ratified by World Athletics

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At the 2022 World Championships, Nigerian Tobi Amusan set a women’s world 100m hurdles record; today, the record has been ratified by the World Athletics.

According to a recently released statement by the international athletic governing body on Tuesday, the record times of two other athletes — Mondo Duplantis and Sydney McLaughlin – were also ratified.

In July, the athletes set the records at the World Athletics Championships in Oregon, the United States.

The statement read, “The world records set by Tobi Amusan, Mondo Duplantis, and Sydney McLaughlin at the World Athletics Championships Oregon22 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.”

Nollywood Times reported that Amusan took the world by storm by finishing by a time of 12.12secs – slicing almost a tenth of a second off the previous world record held by American Keni Harrison (12.20secs) – in the semi-finals of the World Championships in Oregon, USA, before going on to win gold in the final at the Hayward Field stadium.

See the record-breaking videos of the other athletes:

Source: punchng.com

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