African Record holder Oluwatobi Amusan will be seeking to end Nigeria’s medal drought when she commences her quest for a global medal in the 100m hurdles at the 2022 World Athletics Championships.
Amusan will be competing in her third consecutive World Championship, making her bow in 2017 when she made the semifinals in London.
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Her stock rose when she made the 100m hurdles final two years later in Doha, running three good rounds of 12.4s and coming very close to winning a medal. Amusan finished fourth by just two-tenths off Jamaica’s Danielle Williams, who won bronze in 12.47s.
At the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, Amusan finished fourth for the second consecutive global championships and was left shattered, missing out on a podium placement.
However, she atoned for that a month later in Zurich, winning the Diamond League title, surpassing Glory Alozie’s African record of 12.44s to set a new one of 12.42s.
Nigeria will be aiming to go one step better than they did 11 years ago in Daegu, when Gloria Asumnu, Damola Osayomi, Agnes Osazuwa and Blessing Okagbare finished fifth in 42.93s.
Nigeria’s quartet of Joy Udo-Gabriel, Favour Ofili, Rosemary Chukwuma and Grace Nwokocha, if they start in that order, will look to improve on the 42.68s season’s best they ran in the heats.
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