Tobi Amusan, the champion from Nigeria, made history in the World Athletics Championship this year in Oregon, United States. On Friday night, she won a silver medal at the ongoing Diamond League Meet.
Still smarting from the record Commonwealth Games gold she won in Birmingham earlier in August, Amusan hoped to continue her superlative performance but met a resistant hurdle as she lost the gold medal to 2020 Tokyo Olympics winner, Jasmine Camacho-Quinn of Puerto Rico.
In a new Meeting Record of of 12.34 seconds, Camacho-Quinn defeated Tobi Amusan to win the women’s 100-meter hurdles in the Diamond League (-0.9).
Amusan finished second in 12.45s and qualified for Zurich, while US’ Tia Jones ran a new Personal Best of 12.47s to finish third.
The Diamond League is an annual series of elite track and field athletics competitions comprising 14 of the best invitational athletics meetings.
The series sits in the top tier of the World Athletics one-day meeting competitions.
