Tobi Amusan Wins Women's 100m Hurdles Round 1 At African Games

IKEJA, Nigeria - March 20, 2024 - PRLog -- Oluwatobiloba Ayomide "Tobi" Amusan OON is a Nigerian track and field athlete who specialises in the 100 metres hurdles and also competes as a sprinte. Nigerian sprint Queen, Tobi Amusan has won the women's 100m hurdles Round 1 heat at the 13th Africa Games in Ghana. Amusan won the heat with a time of 13.03s. By virtue of her victory, she secured a spot in the semis of the women's 100m hurdles.

Amusan ran a new 12.68 Games record to successfully defend her 2015 title five years ago in Rabat and will be looking to become the first sprint hurdle, a second Nigerian woman and the third Nigerian in general to win an African Games track and field event three straight times. This will be the third time Amusan will be gunning for a hat-trick of 100m hurdles titles in quick succession after she successfully defended her Nigerian Championship title in Benin City last July in Benin City, Nigeria and the Diamond League crown last September in Oregon, USA.

Meanwhile, Team Nigeria lost the men's and women's 100m gold to Cameroon and Gambia respectively, settling for silver and bronze in the events on Tuesday. Usheoritse Itshekiri returned at a time of 10.23secs to lose the men's 100m surprisingly to Cameroon's Emmanuel Eseme who finished at 10.14secs while Namibia's Hainuca Gilbert took the bronze with a time of 10.25secs. Nigeria's other entrant in the men's 100m, Emmanuel Ekanem returned at a time of 10.42secs to finish a distant fourth.

In the Africa Games women's 100m, Olayinka Olajide could only muster a third-place finish to win bronze with a time of 11.55secs behind Miriam Bittaye of Gambia who won the gold with 11.36secs and Alyse Miccoy of Liberia whose 11.49secs gave her the silver medal.

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