World Athletics ratifies Amusan’s 100m hurdles record at Oregon

The World Athletics has ratified the women’s world 100m hurdles record set by Nigeria’s Tobi Amusan at the July 2022 World Championships in Oregon, United States.

A statement by the international athletic governing body on Tuesday added that the record times of two other athletes — Mondo Duplantis and Sydney McLaughlin – have also been ratified.

The statement read, “The world records set by Tobi Amusan, Mondo Duplantis, and Sydney McLaughlin at the World Athletics Championships, Oregon22, have been ratified.

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“Amusan’s 12.12 in the women’s 100m hurdles semi-finals, Duplantis’s 6.21m in the men’s pole vault final and McLaughlin’s 50.68 in the women’s 400m hurdles final are all now officially in the record books, as is the world U20 mark of 9.94 set by Letsile Tebogo in the men’s 100m heats.”

The 25-year-old Amusan took the world by storm when she ran a time of 12.12secs, shaving almost a tenth of a second off the previous world record held by American Keni Harrison (12.20secs), in the semi-finals of the World Championships, before going on to win gold in the final at the Hayward Field stadium.

In appreciation of the feat at Oregon and the recent Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, UK, Nigeria’s president, Muhammadu Buhari, awarded her the national honour, Officer of the Order of the Niger (OON).