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Tobi Amusan is a Nigerian track and field athlete who specializes in the 100 meters hurdles and also competes as a sprinter.
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She is the current World,Commonwealth and African champion in the 100 meters hurdles, as well as, the record holder in the three competitions.
Amusan became the first Nigerian world champion in an athletics event when she won the 2022 World Championships 100 meters hurdles gold medal, setting the current world record of 12.12 seconds in the semifinal, followed up by a wind-assisted 12.06 s in the final to take gold.
She won Commonwealth and African titles in 2018 and 2022 in the 100m hurdles and is also a two-time African Games champion in the event.
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- Tobi Amusan Birth Given Name is Oluwatobiloba Ayomide Amusan.
- She was born on the 23 April 1997 (age 25)
- Place of Birth: In Ijebu Ode, Ogun State, Nigeria
- College: University of Texas at El Paso
- School: Our Lady of Apostles Secondary School, Ijebu-Ode
- Height: 1.56 m (5 ft 1inches) 1.56 m (5 ft 1 inches)
- Weight: 57 kg
- Country: Nigeria
- Sport: Athletics
- Sprint: 100 meters hurdles College team UTEP miners
- Club: Buka Tigers
- Coached by: Lacena Golding-Clarke and Mika Laaksonen
- Instagram: @ihurdle_33.0inches
Tobi Amusan Biography
Tobi Amusan was born on April 23, 1997, in Ijebu Ode, Ogun State, Nigeria, to Mr and Mrs. Amusan who are school teachers. Tobi is the last child of three siblings. She had her Secondary School Education at Our Lady of Apostles Secondary School, Ijebu Ode.
Tobi Amusan Sport Career And Awards
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From an early age, Tobi was an accomplished athlete. She has won a silver medal at the 2013 African Youth Championships in Warri. She also claimed a gold medal in the 100 meters hurdles at the 2015 African Junior Athletics Championships in Addis Ababa. In 2015, while making her All-Africa Games debut, eighteen years of age, she won the gold medal in the 100 meters hurdles.
In 2016, as a freshman for The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP), Tobi became the second athlete for the university to be named C-USA Female Track athlete of the Year since UTEP joined C-USA.
She was the gold medallist in both the 100 meters hurdles and the 200 meters. She also claimed a silver medal in the long jump at the C-USA Championships.
Tobi first broke the 13 s barrier in the hurdles with a time of 12.83 s at the El Paso UTEP Invitational. This eclipsed Kim Turner’s 100 mH UTEP record which had stood for 33 years.
She was runner-up at the 2016 NCAA Outdoor Championships in the 100 mH. She ran a windy 12.79 s behind Kentucky’s Jasmine Camacho-Quinn. Amusan also competed at the 2016 World Junior Championships in Bydgoszcz. Despite running her second fastest time ever, she was placed fifth in the final.
She went on to represent Nigeria at the Rio Olympic Games, reaching the semi finals of the 100 meters hurdles.
In her first outdoor race of 2017, she ran a then lifetime best and UTEP record of 12.63 s in the 100 meters hurdles.
She was the C-USA champion in her specialist event and also the runner up in the 200 meters. At the 2017 NCAA Outdoor Championships, there was a reversal of finishes in the 100 meters hurdles. In a dramatic race, Amusan claimed the title ahead of Camacho-Quinn who was the champion the previous year. She did this in a personal record time of 12.57s.
In the same year she also represented Nigeria at the World Championships in London.
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At the start of the 2018 season, She ran a personal best of 7.89 s in the 60 meters hurdles. She went on to represent her country at the Birmingham World Indoor Championships reaching the final of the 60 meters hurdles.
At the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia, 2015 World Champion Danielle Williams seemed to be the favorite to take the title in the absence of Sally Pearson. however, Tobi moved ahead of her competitors and won the race by a clear meter ahead of Williams in the finals.
She also won a bronze medal in the 4 times100 meters relay with her teammates, Joy Udo-Gabriel, Blessing Okagbare and Rosemary Chukwuma.
Later in that year, she won her first African Championships title in her specialist event at the Asaba African Championships. This fulfilled a Nigerian tradition as Judy Bell-Gam had won this race for Nigeria at the first African Championships.
On October 5, 2019, at the 2019 World Championships in Doha, Qatar, she ran a personal best of 12.48 s during the 100 meters hurdles qualifying rounds. In the semi-finals the following day, she equaled this personal best before placing 4th a few hours later in the final with 12.49s.
2021 was the First Nigerian Diamond League champion
Tobi finished fourth in the Tokyo Olympics with a time of 12.60s. She later competed in the Zürich Diamond League final event, which she won in 12.42s, becoming the first Nigerian to win a Diamond League trophy.
Tobi opened her 2022 season by winning the 100 meters hurdles at the Diamond League event in Paris with a time of 12.41s, breaking the African record by 01s. She proceeded to win gold in the 100m hurdles at the 2022 African Championships in Mauritius, defending her title with a time of 12.57s. She also competed in the women’s 4×100m relay and won gold. At the 2022 Commonwealth games, Tobi successfully defended her title, winning her second consecutive gold medal in the 100m hurdles. She set a new Games record of 12.30s. She also helped power Nigeria’s women’s 4x100m relay team to a gold medal.
She also competed in the 100m hurdles at the Lausanne Diamond Race meet, finishing second with a time of 12.60s, behind Olympic champion Jasmine Camacho-Quinn.
Tobi entered the 2022 World Athletics Championships as a medal contender after back-to-back fourth place finishes. In the heats she ran an African record of 12.40s, bettering her old record by 0.01s. In the semi-final, she set a new world record of 12.12s. She bested her time once again in the final, running 12.06s (2.5 m/s wind assisted, thus not a legal WR), becoming the first Nigerian world champion at the World Athletics Championships.
She wrapped up her long and successful 2022 campaign by competing in the 100 meters hurdles at the Zürich Diamond League final event, which she won in 12.29s to retain her title. She finished ahead of Lolo Jones, Britany Anderson, and Camacho-Quinn in fourth, setting a new meet record.
On October 4th 2022, The Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun, announced a cash reward of 5 million Naira and a house to the World, Commonwealth and African 100 meters hurdles, Tobi Amusan.
The governor also named her as the Ogun State Sports Ambassador.
Mr Abiodun, in a statement issued by his Chief Press Secretary, Kunle Somorin, hosted Tobi at his Oke Mosan Office, Abeokuta, the state capital.
The governor adopted the star athlete on April 36, 2021, whose exploits were made known to the governor by the Minister of Youths and Sports, Sunday Dare.
The Governor described Tobi as a role model to the girl-child and a practical example of a truism that what a man can do, a woman can even do better.
“So, you will be our Sports Ambassador; I am happy that you said you are not from any other state. You are from Ogun and not from Lagos and you want to come back home. We also want to ensure that you come back home.
“ And we want to assure you that as you come back home, you have a home here in the state. So, in view of that, we are also going to be presenting to you a home in Ijebu-Ode.
“On top of that, we will be giving you a small token, we will be donating to you a sum of five million naira,” he said.
Abiodun noted that his administration is on course to give the Ijebu-Ode Stadium the necessary facelift it needs.
He added that the call by the star athlete to use the stadium to train whenever she is in the country will further prompt his administration to fast track the rehabilitation of the stadium.
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Tobi Amusan Net Worth
Due to her hard work in sport, she has an estimated net worth of $ 1.5 million.
Tobi Amusan Boyfriend
As of the time of compiling this Biography, Tobi Amusan is not in a relationship.
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