World Report holder, Tobi Amusan has raised Nigeria’s hopes of a podium end as she began her Paris Olympic marketing campaign with a powerful victory within the heats of the ladies’s 100m hurdles.
Amusan hardly broke a sweat as she dominated your entire subject, working a stable 12.49s regardless of being seeded in lane 9.
Alaysha Johnson was 2nd in 12.61s whereas Janeek Brown positioned third with a time of 12.84s.
That is Amusan’s third consecutive Olympic Video games and her third time making the semifinals.
The 27-year-old athlete has proven spectacular type main as much as the sports activities occasion. She recorded a season’s greatest and world-leading time of 12.40 seconds on the Jamaican Athletics Invitational in Could.
Earlier, she set the African indoor document for the 60m hurdles twice in January and February. In March, she gained her third consecutive African Video games title in Ghana, anchored the ladies’s 4x100m relay workforce to gold in Accra, and triumphed on the African Championships in Cameroon.
This season, she has competed in 17 occasions, together with the 60m, 100m, 100m hurdles, and 4x100m relay. Amusan is a three-time Diamond League winner, two-time Commonwealth Video games gold medallist, two-time African champion, and three-time African Video games gold medallist, having participated within the Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020 Olympics.
Amusan is undoubtedly one of many favourites for the gold medal, however it will not be a simple feat forward of the semi-finals which will probably be held on Friday, August 9, whereas the ultimate is slated for the penultimate day of the athletics occasion, Saturday, August 10.
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In the meantime, Nigeria continued to overlook out of a podium end as Udodi Chudi Onwuzurike didn’t make it out of the lads’s 200m semi-final race as he completed seventh clocking 20.72 seconds simply as his compatriot, Ezekiel Nathaniel additionally didn’t qualify for the 400m hurdles closing as he crashed out within the semi-finals.
Nathaniel positioned fifth within the first semi-final race in a time of 48.65 seconds, a far cry of what he ran within the warmth.
It is going to be recalled he had damaged a 12-year document on the Olympic Video games qualifying for the semifinals of the lads’s 400m hurdles occasion.
Equally, Christianah Ogunsanya misplaced her first bout following her defeat within the second spherical of the ladies’s freestyle 53kg by Mongolia’s Khulan Batkhuyag. She’s going to now battle for bronze medal within the Repechage spherical.
Alsom Edose Ibadin completed sixth in warmth 2 of the lads’s 800m however will compete within the Repechage spherical to combat for an additional likelihood into the semi-finals.