Tokyo 2025: Tobi Amusan clocks fastest semifinals time to qualify for 100mH final at World Championships
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World Record holder Tobi Amusan cruised into the women's 100mH final, running the fastest qualifying time at the Tokyo 2025 World Championships.
The Nigerian hurdling queen competing in semifinal 2, effortlessly ran through her hurdles and crossed the finish line in a blistering 12.36s, finishing ahead of Netherland's Nadine Visser in 12.42s.
Semifinal 2 of the women’s 100m hurdles
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Tobi Amusan🇳🇬 12.36s
Nadine Visser🇳🇱 12.45s pic.twitter.com/IfDxf2E7gh
USA's duo of Grace Stark (12.37s) and Masai Russel (12.42s) clocked the second and third fastest times, as defending world champion Danielle Williams (12.44s) and Ditaji Kambundji (12.44s) completed the top 5 of all semifinals.
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Amusan's brilliant performance is a marker of what's to come as she'll be aiming to reclaim her world title from 2022, when she became Nigeria's first athletics world champion and record holder in history.
It's also a huge improvement from her disappointing outing at the Paris Olympic Games last summer, where she disappointingly didn't make the final.
If Amusan is victorious with another gold medal in Tokyo, she'll become Nigeria's first two-time world champion in history.
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