Tobi Amusan became the first Nigerian athlete to win a World Athletics Championship gold as she stormed to victory in the women\u2019s 100m hurdles in Oregon on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Amusan, who had obliterated the world record in an astonishing semi-final where she clocked 12.12sec, powered over the line at Hayward Field in 12.06sec.<\/span><\/p>\n Her winning time will not be recognised as a world record, however, due to a strong following win of 2.5 metres per second.<\/span><\/p>\n Jamaica\u2019s Britany Anderson took silver in 12.23sec, while Olympic champion Jasmine Camacho-Quinn of Puerto Rico claimed bronze in 12.23.<\/span><\/p>\n Amusan had produced a jaw-dropping world record in the semi-finals, smashing the previous best mark of 12.20secs held by Keni Harrison of the United States in 2016.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cHonestly, I believe in my abilities but I was not expecting a world record at these championships,\u201d Amusan said after her final victory. <\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThe goal is always just to execute well and get the win. So the world record is a bonus. I knew I had it in me but I could not believe it when I saw it on the screen after the semis.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cBefore the final, I just tried to stay calm and to do my best. I took a deep breath knowing that I have some goal to accomplish and it worked pretty good. I knew it was very fast but not this fast.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Harrison had been left in Amusan\u2019s slipstream in the semi, and was again shown a clean pair of heels by the Nigerian in the final.<\/span><\/p>\n Amusan got off to a scorching start and was smoothly into her stride after the first hurdle, building a clear lead and then pulling away ahead of Anderson and the fast-closing Camacho-Quinn.<\/span><\/p>\n AFP<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tobi Amusan became the first Nigerian athlete to win a World Athletics Championship gold as she stormed to victory in the women\u2019s 100m hurdles in Oregon on Sunday. Amusan, who had obliterated the world record in an astonishing semi-final where she clocked 12.12sec, powered over the line at Hayward Field in 12.06sec. Her winning time […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9621,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[5460,5459,92,5461,5462],"class_list":["post-9620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-100m-hurdles-gold","tag-breaks-record","tag-nigeria","tag-tobi-amusan","tag-world-athletics-championship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9620"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9620"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9622,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9620\/revisions\/9622"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}