25/07/2022
Tobi Amusan is new world record holder for 100 metres hurdles. She broke the earlier record set by an American and also got Nigeria's first gold at the championship on Sunday 24th of July at the World Athletics Championship that ends today 25th of July.(Quintessential Town Crier Media, Quitoe)
"The new world champion and world record-holder in the women’s 100m hurdles only got into hurdling through a quirk of fate.
Tobi Amusan started out as a sprinter and long jumper as a youngster in her native Nigeria.
At 13, she turned up to compete in a local athletics meet, only to find that just one event remained on the programme: the hurdles.
Amusan’s coach encouraged her to enter. She ended up winning the race and the rest, as they say, is history.
The switch to the sprint hurdles paid off in sensational fashion on Sunday (24) when the 25-year-old Amusan smashed the world record, clocking 12.12 in the semi-finals at the World Athletics Championships Oregon22. She shaved 0.08 off the previous mark set by Kendra Harrison of the US in 2016."
Disclaimer: the above text in quotation was directly gotten from the official website World Athletics( Directly sourced from v worldathletics.org)