Tobi Amusan Net Worth 2023: How Rich is the Athletics World Record Holder?

Tobi Amusan is reportedly one of the richest African female athletes in the world. The Nigerian Queen of Hurdles has seen her market value grow significantly in recent months.

Tobi Amusan background

Tobi Amusan (OON) is a Nigerian track and field athlete specialising in the 100 metres hurdles and competes as a sprinter. 

She is the current World, Commonwealth and African champion in the 100 m hurdles, as well as the meet record holder in those three competitions.

 Amusan is one of the popular names in world athletics after she became the first ever Nigerian world champion and world record holder in an athletics event when she won the 2022 World Championships 100 m hurdles gold medal, setting the current world record of 12.12 seconds (+0.9m/s) in the semi-final, followed up by a 12.06 seconds (+2.5m/s) in the final. 

Tobi Amusan won back-to-back Commonwealth and African titles in 2018 and 2022 in the 100 m hurdles and is also a two-time African Games champion in the event.

 She is also the current Diamond league champion in the 100 metres hurdles having won the final in 12.29 seconds (-0.3m/s) winning back to back titles in 2022 and 2023.

In this article, Pulse Sports will review the net worth of Tobi Amusan in 2023 as per our research as well as online sources.

Tobi Amusan Profile

Full name: Oluwatobiloba Ayomide Amusan

Birth date: April 23, 1997

Nationality: Nigerian

Place of birth: Ijebu Ode, Ogun State, Nigeria

Age: 26 years old (as of August 2023)

Height: 1.56 m (5 ft 1 in)

Marital status: Single

Position: Sprinter

Salary: $100,000 - $150,000 per annum (est.)

Net Worth: $1.5 million

Instagram: @ihurdle_33.0inches

Tobi Amusan Career 

From an early age, Tobi Amusan looked set for superstardom in world athletics.

Tobi Amusan has been described as one of the greatest hurdle sprinters of her generation,

 She was the 200 metres silver medallist at the 2013 African Youth Championships held in Warri.

The following year, she took her first major medal in the 100 metres hurdles, which was also silver, at the African Youth Games.

 She then claimed gold in the event at the 2015 African Junior Athletics Championships in Addis Ababa.

 Also in 2015, while making her All-Africa Games debut as an eighteen-year-old, she won the gold medal in the 100 m hurdles.

In 2016, as a freshman in the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP), Amusan became the second athlete for the university to be named C-USA Female Track Athlete of the Year since UTEP joined C-USA.

Amusan was the gold medallist in both the 100 m hurdles and the 200 m. She also claimed a silver in the long jump at the C-USA Championships.

In her first outdoor race of 2017, she ran a then-lifetime best and UTEP record of 12.63 s in the 100 m hurdles.

Tobi Amusan was the C-USA champion in her specialist event and also the runner up in the 200 m. At the 2017 NCAA Outdoor Championships, there was a reversal of finishes in the 100 m hurdles. 

Amusan claimed the title ahead of favourite, Camacho-Quinn, who was the previous year's champion. 

She did this in a personal record time of 12.57 s and went on to represent Nigeria at the World Championships in London later in the year.

In August 2019, the 22-year-old successfully defended her African Games title.

 Later in October at the World Championships in Doha, Qatar, she ran a personal best of 12.48 s during the 100 m hurdles qualifying rounds. 

In 2021, Tobi Amusan competed in the Zürich Diamond League final event, which she won in a new African record of 12.42 s, breaking 23-years-old best of 12.44 s held by her compatriot Glory Alozie and becoming the first Nigerian to win a Diamond League trophy.

2022 was unarguably Amusan’s break out year in world athletics.

In June 2022, Amusan defended her 100 m hurdles title at the African Championships in Mauritius with a time of 12.57 s. She also competed in the women's 4 × 100 m relay to earn a second gold medal.

That same year, Tobi Amusan entered the World Championships held in Eugene, Oregon in July as a medal contender after back-to-back fourth-place finishes. 

In the semi-final, Amusan set a new world record of 12.12 seconds, breaking the previous best of 12.20 s set by American Kendra Harrison in 2016 and becoming the first Nigeria's world record holder in an athletics event.

 It was the largest improvement for a world record in the 100 m hurdles in 42 years.

Amusan later bested her time once again in the final, running 12.06 s, becoming the first Nigeria's world champion at the World Athletics Championship.

In August at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, Amusan successfully defended her title, winning her second consecutive gold medal in the 100 m hurdles with a new Games record of 12.30 s. 

She also helped power Nigeria's women's 4 × 100 m relay team to gold.

Amusan wrapped up her long and successful 2022 campaign by winning 100 m hurdles at the Zürich Diamond League final event with a 12.29 s performance to retain her title, while setting a new meet record in the process.

In July 2023, reports emerged that Tobi Amusan was provisionally suspended by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) for allegedly missing three tests within a calendar year.

Although Tobi Amusan maintained her innocence, insisting that she is a clean athlete, she had to wait on the verdict of a Tribunal that was set up to look into the matter.

The 26-year-old breathed a huge sigh of relief after the tribunal cleared her of all anti-doping violations in August.

In a press release by the AIU, it was stated that it took a majority decision by the Disciplinary Tribunal to clear Tobi Amusan of any wrongdoing.

“A panel of the Disciplinary Tribunal, by majority decision, has today found that Tobi Amusan has not committed an Anti-Doping Rule Violation (ADRV) of three Whereabouts Failures within a 12-month period.” a statement read.

Tobi Amusan Salary 2023

As of August 2023, Tobi Amusan’s salary is not yet known, but she is estimated to be roughly earning between $100,000 - $150,000 yearly from her on on-field events.

However, Amusan is reportedly amongst the richest African female athletes in the world, having sealed a number of endorsement deals that have seen her market value grow significantly in recent months.

In 2022, after Amusan broke the women's 100m Hurdles World Record (WR) at the World Championships in Oregon, she was automatically awarded a prize money of $100,000.

Then for winning a gold medal and becoming world champion, she reportedly earned up to $70,000. 

In May 2023, it was reported by nalathletics.com that Amusan won an equivalent of $58,000 (N43,5 million) in Diamond League earnings for the year 2022. 

This made her the16th-highest earner amongst all athletes that competed in the Diamond League circuit, as Jamaica's Shericka Jackson topped the list with $99,500.

Tobi Amusan Net Worth 2023

As of August 2023, Toby Amusan is estimated to have a net worth of $1.5 million. 

Amusan can pretty much afford the luxury and expensive lifestyle in Nigeria, having racked up thousands of dollars in recent months due to her record-breaking achievements on the tracks.

She is currently managed by a prominent media agency in Nigeria known as Plug NG Sports, the same management company that is home to Super Falcons stars Asisat Oshoala and Uchenna Kanu, and Super Eagles stars Henry Onyekuru and Frank Onyeka.

How does Tobi Amusan make her money?

Amusan makes her money primarily from sprinting as well as sponsorships and endorsement deals.

In August 2022, Amosun was signed as a brand ambassador for Premium Trust Bank.

In September 2022, Tobi Amusan became the first female athlete to be a brand ambassador for Globacom Nigeria.

Later in November that same year, she was signed as an ambassador for $end Mobile App by Flutterwave.

Tobi Amusan Social Media 

As of August 2023, Tobi Amusan boasts over 281,000 followers on Instagram, more than 174,000 followers on Facebook, and over 107,800 followers on Twitter, taking her social media followership to an impressive tally of more than half a million. 

Amusan is also the most-followed female Track and field athlete in Nigeria.

Related content