World record holder Tobi Amusan has emerged winner of the women’s 100 meters hurdles at the 2022 Diamond League title in Zurich.
She successfully defended her Diamond League title for the second consecutive season surpassing Gail Devers’ long standing 22-year-old Meeting Record (MR) of 12.39 seconds by one-tenth of a second, going on to set a new MR of 12.29 seconds (-0.3).
At the 2022 Diamond League, USA’s Tia Jones finished second in a time of 12.40 seconds, with Jamaica’s Britany Anderson coming in 3rd clocking 12.42 seconds. Olympic champion Jasmine Camacho-Quinn finished a distant 4th in 12.49 seconds.
For Amusan’s winning time of 12.29 seconds, it is the second fastest legal time she has ever run in her career, further buttressing her World Record of 12.12 seconds at the World Championships.
It crowns what has been a spectacular season for Amusan, scooping a plethora of medals at all the championships she was at in 2022. The win in Zurich was Amusan’s ninth of the season (excluding victories in the heats), laying down the marker as the best 100 meters Hurdler in the world this season.
Tobi Amusan is now the first Nigerian athlete to win two Diamond League trophies as well as the first Nigerian to win it.
The Diamond League is an annual series of elite track and field athletic competitions comprising fourteen of the best invitational athletics meetings. The series sits in the top tier of the World Athletics (formerly known as the IAAF) one-day meeting competitions.
