Tobi Amusan has won the women’s 100 meters hurdles race at
the Diamond League meet in Rabat, Morocco.
The 28-year-old clocked a season’s best time of 12.24 seconds
to finish ahead of the chasing pack and set a new meeting record, breaking
McNeal Brianna’s previous mark of 12.51 seconds.
The triumph is Amusan’s first major victory of the 2025
season. She opened her campaign with a successive fourth-place finish at both
the Xiamen and Shanghai Diamond League meets in May.
In March, she won Velocity Fest 16 in Jamaica, running
against a weaker line-up of hurdlers.
The latest victory opens a clean chapter for Amusan,
following the disappointing end to her 2024 athletics season, during which she
failed to make the final of the women’s 100m hurdles at the Paris Olympics.
After last season, Amusan began training with Racers Track
Club, which is led by Glen Mills, the former coach of the legendary Usain Bolt.
Speaking on her triumph in Rabat, Amusan credited her
training routine with improving her execution in Morocco.
“More hurdles practice, because I have been doing more
sprinting. It was after the first two Diamond League meetings, I knew I had to
go back to doing more hurdle drills,” she said.
“Two weeks in, I can tell the difference.”
Amusan won the Diamond League trophy for the women’s 100
meters hurdles thrice from 2021 to 2023.
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