By Admin.
Tobi Amusan has picked Nigeria’s first ever Gold Medal At World Athletics Championship.
Nigeria left her best for the last day of the World Athletics Championships in Eugene, Oregon, United States of America by winning a gold and a silver medal.
Naijanewshub.com.ng gathered that Tobi Amusan broke the 100m hurdles World Record in the semi finals with an astonishing 12.12s and followed up with a (+2.5)wind assisted 12.06s in the final.
The time in the final would though not be recognized as it was well over the legal +2.0 wind assist allowed in Athletics.
Before then, she had run 12.40s in the heat to set a new African Record.
Amusan has now become Nigeria’s first ever World Champion in athletics.
Team Nigeria would go on to celebrate another podium finish in the Long Jump, with Ese Brume’s 7.02m leap.
Brume won a bronze medal at the 2019 World Championships and the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo.
Reacting to Nigeria’s late rally for medals in Oregon and the country’s best performance ever at the Championships, Sports Minister Sunday Dare said these heartwarming feats will herald a new dawn for Nigerian athletics.
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