Tobi Amusan
27 Jan
World 100m hurdles record holder (12.12secs), Oluwatobi Amusan, and Olympics long jump bronze medalist, Ese Brume, will take their 2024 indoor campaign next month at the New Balance Indoor Grand Prix to Boston.
11 Jan
The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has set January 19, 2024, as date for hearing on the appeal filed by World Athletics via the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) and the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), challenging the first instance decision
25 Oct 2023
World 100m hurdles record holder, Tobi Amusan, 400m barrier runner, Nathaniel Ezekiel, and middle-distance runner, Edosie Ibadin, have qualified for next year’s Olympics, just as World Athletics has launched its tracking qualification tool for the Games.
12 Oct 2023
World Athletics (WA), yesterday, unveiled the names of nominees for Women’s Athlete of the Year 2023, but the name of 100m hurdles record holder, Nigeria’s Tobi Amusan, is missing from the lot.
18 Sep 2023
As she did last year at the same venue, World Record holder in the 100m hurdler, Nigeria's Tobiloba Amusan, on Sunday emerged winner in the final of the 2023 Diamond league in Oregon, United States.
The Nigerian ran 12.33sec Season Best to
17 Sep 2023
The 30-day period of appeal open to the Athletic Integrity Unit (AIU) to contest World Athletics’ lifting of the provisional ban on Tobi Amusan elapsed yesterday. This means the Nigerian, who holds the world record in 100 metres women hurdles, is free to continue on er career.
4 Sep 2023
To avoid another winless situation at Tokyo 2025 edition of the World Athletics Championships, a board member of the Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN), Prof. Emmanuel Ojeme, has advised that the nation’s athletes must be nurtured and psychologically guided to attain optimum performance,
2 Sep 2023
Jamaica’s speed star, Danielle Williams has vowed never to allow World Record holder in the 100m hurdles, Nigeria’s Tobi Amusan to have her way in the final of this year’s Diamond league slated for Oregon, United States.
1 Sep 2023
Brume, a three-time World Athletics Championships (indoors and outdoor) medalist, is seeking to become the second Nigerian to compete in the final of the Diamond League. She was confirmed for the Xiamen, China meeting, this Saturday (September 2, 2023).
27 Aug 2023
World 100m women hurdles’ record holder, Tobi Amusan, has assured Nigerians of a better outing at next year’s Olympic Games in Paris, France. Amusan could not defend her world title at the 19th World Athletics Championships in Budapest....
26 Aug 2023
World Record holder in the 100m hurdles, Tobi Amusan, has assured Nigerians of a better outing in next's Olympics Games in Paris, France.
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