The World Athletics has ratified Tobi Amusan’s 12.12 secs world record set in women’s 100m hurdles at the 2022 World Championships in Oregon.
The ratification was announced by the international athletic governing body on Tuesday to make it official.
The Athletic governing body also revealed through a statement that two other Athletes who set a world record at the competition Mondo Duplantis and Sydney McLaughlin also have their time ratified.
The statement reads in part, “The world records set by Tobi Amusan, Mondo Duplantis, and Sydney McLaughlin at the World Athletics Championships Oregon22 have been ratified.
“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.”
Tobi Amusan surprised everyone including herself when she posted a time of 12.12secs thereby shattering the time set by the previous holder, America’s Keni Harrison (12.20secs)
Amusan set the record in the semi-final of the 100m hurdles before setting a record of 12.06 secs in the final to coast home to victory.
However, Amusan’s 12.06 secs set in the final wouldn’t count as it was said to have been aided by wind.
The hurdler has since consolidated on her strength a couple of times at the Commonwealth games and the diamond league.
Recently she alongside Ese Brume were unveiled as the ambassadors of premium trust bank.