AMUSAN Tobi

Date of Birth: 23 Apr 1997

Age: 24

Gender: Female

Olympic Scholarship

Place of birth: IJEBU ODE

Birth Country:

Nigeria

Place of residence : EL PASO, TX

Residence Country:

United States of America

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Athletics	Women's 100m Hurdles	4
	Women's 4 x 100m Relay NGR Nigeria

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Olympic Stadium - Track	Women's 100m Hurdles Round 1 - Heat 3	Finished
	Olympic Stadium - Track	Women's 100m Hurdles Semi-Final 1	Finished
	Olympic Stadium - Track	Women's 100m Hurdles Final	Finished
	Olympic Stadium - Track	Women's 4 x 100m Relay Round 1 - Heat 2	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

Olympic Games

Year	Location	100m Hurdles
2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	SF (12.91)

World Athletics Championships

Year	Location	100m Hurdles
2019	Doha, QAT	4th (12.49)
2017	London, GBR	SF (13.04)

African Games

Year	Location	100m Hurdles
2019	Rabat, MAR	1st (12.68)

African Championships

Year	Location	100m Hurdles	4 x 100m
2018	Asaba, NGR	1st (12.86)	1st (43.77)

Diamond League overview - Three best ranks per season and event since 2017

Year	100m Hurdles
2019	1 x 2nd, 2 x 3rd, 1 x 5th
2018	1 x 3rd, 1 x 4th, 1 x 5th

Diamond League - Ten best performances since 2020

Rank	Year	Event	Location	Result
2	2019	100m Hurdles	Doha, QAT	12.73
3	2019	100m Hurdles	Birmingham, GBR	12.71
3	2019	100m Hurdles	Stockholm, SWE	12.85
3	2018	100m Hurdles	Rome, ITA	12.86
4	2018	100m Hurdles	Brussels, BEL	12.69
5	2019	100m Hurdles	London, GBR	12.73
5	2018	100m Hurdles	Rabat, MAR	12.87
7	2018	100m Hurdles	London, GBR	12.68

World Athletics Continental Tour - Ten best performances since 2020

Rank	Year	Event	Competition	Location	Result
2	2021	100m Hurdles	World Athletics Continental Tour	Boston, MA, USA	12.62
3	2021	100m Hurdles	World Athletics Continental Tour	Walnut, CA, USA	12.61
6	2021	100m Hurdles	World Athletics Continental Tour	Eugene, OR, USA	13.10

World Challenge - Ten best performances since 2020

Rank	Year	Event	Competition	Location	Result
1	2019	100m Hurdles	World Challenge	Berlin, GER	12.51

World Indoor Championships

Year	Location	60m Hurdles
2018	Birmingham, GBR	7th (8.06)

Legend
SF - Semifinal, QF - Quarterfinal, 1R - 1st Round, Qual. - Qualification, QR - Qualification Round, DNF - Did Not Finish, DNS - Did Not Start, DQ - Disqualified, NM - No Mark, [Relay athlete without time] - Did not run in final

Tobi (makingofchamps.com, 24 Apr 2016)

Occupation:

Human Movement Studies - University of Texas at El Paso, United States of America

Languages spoken:

Lacena Golding-Clark [personal], JAM, from 2016

Sporting relatives:

Her mother played volleyball at national level. (inthenews.com.ng, 01 Oct 2015)

"I used to be a soccer player and I was told to just stay on this side of the field [but] I just ran around and my coach was like, 'This is not your sport'. He took me to a track coach and I ended up doing the trials and I defeated basically all the best people on the team, and that was how I got myself running track. I started with sprints but I later fell in love with the hurdles." (punchng.com, 01 Dec 2018; UTEP Miners YouTube channel, 05 Mar 2018)

To win a medal at the Olympic Games. (punchng.com, 01 Dec 2018)

Jamaican sprinter Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, US hurdler Dawn Harper-Nelson. (inthenews.com.ng, 01 Oct 2015)

Her parents. (worldathletics.org, 31 Aug 2020)

While competing for the University of Texas at El Paso in 2016 she was named Conference USA Track Athlete of the Year. (utepathletics.com, 17 Jun 2016)

General Interest

General
STUDYING IN THE UNITED STATES
In December 2019 she graduated with a bachelor's degree in health promotion from the University of Texas at El Paso in the United States of America. "I picked health promotion because I wanted to study something that has to do with what I'm practising, which is track and field. The goal was to come here, get my degree alongside doing what I love doing most - running track. From now on, it's just practice, go home and sleep, repeat." (elpasotimes.com, 11 Dec 2019; UTEP Miners YouTube channel, 05 Mar 2018)

Milestones

She became the first Nigerian athlete to win a gold medal in the 100m hurdles at the Commonwealth Games by placing first in the event at the 2018 Games in Gold Coast, QLD, Australia. (SportsDeskOnline, 01 Apr 2020; okayafrica.com, 13 Apr 2018)

Social Media

Legend

:: Gold Medal Event
:: Silver Medal Event
:: Bronze Medal Event

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