Tobi Amusan Ends Record-Breaking 2022 with 12.29secs Diamond League Defence

Nigeria’s Hurdles World Champion, Oluwatobiloba Ayomide Amusan on Thursday wrapped up her record-breaking year in style as she broke Gail Devers’ 22-year-old meeting record to defend the Diamond League 100mH title in a winning time of 12.29secs.

The Diamond League title adds to the plethora of achievements achieved by the Hurdles queen in 2022 including the World Record, World Championship, Commonwealth and Africa Championship titles.

Tobi Amusan began her historic run on the track last year. On September 9th 2021, she became the first Nigerian to win the Diamond League trophy in 12.42 seconds where she also set an African record.

The phenomeon showed resilience and put up a brilliant spectacle again in Zurich as she convincingly took down Gail Devers’ long standing 22-year-old Meeting Record (MR) of 12.39s by one-tenth of a second, to set a new Meeting Record of 12.29 and running against a negative wind of (-0.3m/s) .

She successfully defended her 100m Hurdles Diamond League title for the second consecutive season in style and set a new meeting record of 13.29secs (Amusan’s second ever winning time after her World Record of 12.12s at the World Championships).

Her challengers, Tia Jones of USA came second in 12.40s, Jamaica’s Britany Anderson finished third in 12.42s while Jasmine Camacho-Quinn finished a distant 4th in 12.49s.

Next Meeting- 29 April 2023