The rave of the moment, Nigeria’s Tobi Amusan has recorded another golden feat by clinching the women’s 100 metres hurdles at the Diamond League in Zurich on Thursday.
Amusan finished her race in 12.29 seconds to dust her closest rival, Camacho-Quin of Puerto-Rico to coast home to victory in Zurich.
America’s Tia Jones finished second with 12.40secs 12.29 seconds came third with 12.42secs. Camacho-Quin finished in fourth place.
The Nigerian had won the Diamond League title last year in 12.42 seconds. She also set an African record.
“12.29! ” “Tobi Amusan defends her #DiamondLeague title with a new meeting record in the women’s 100m hurdles!” the Diamond League wrote.
Amusan has been blazing high in recent times after setting world record at the World Atletics championship in Oregon.
During the semi-final of the event, Amusan clocked 12.12 seconds to smash the world record at Hayward Field.
She also consolidated on her feats by winning a gold medal at the commonwealth games with games record of 12.30secs thereby defending the title she won four years ago at the same competition.
That same month, she finished second in the women’s 100m hurdles at the Athletissima Diamond League meeting in Lausanne, Switzerland.
The world champion and world record holder was beaten to the first spot by Puerto Rica’s Jasmine Camacho-Quinn who ran a meet record of 12.34 seconds at the event.
With her 12.29secs feat in Zurich, Amusan broke the 22-year-old meeting record set by America’s Gail Dever in the 100m hurdles