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Tobi Amusan was born on April 23, 1997, in Ijebu Ode, Ogun State, Nigeria, to Mr and Mrs. Amusan who are school teachers.
Tobi, as she is fondly called, is the last child of three siblings. She had her Secondary School Education at Our Lady of Apostles Secondary School, Ijebu Ode, Ogun state.
Source: Wikipedia
From an early age, Amusan was an accomplished athlete. She was a silver medallist at the 2013 African Youth Championships in Warri. She also claimed gold in the 100 metres hurdles at the 2015 African Junior Athletics Championships in Addis Ababa. In 2015, while making her All-Africa Games debut as an eighteen-year-old, she won the gold medal in the 100 metres hurdles.
Source: World Athletics
Amusan entered the 2022 World Athletics Championships as a medal contender after back-to-back 4th place finishes. In the heats she ran an African record of 12.40s, bettering her old record by 0.01s. In the semifinal, 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.
At the 2022 Commonwealth games, she won her second consecutive gold medal in the 100m hurdles by setting a new games record of 12.30s thereby defending her title. She also helped power Nigeria's women's 4x100m relay team to a Gold medal.
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