Tobi Amusan

Tobi Amusan
Tobi Amusan at ISTAF 2019
Full name	Oluwatobiloba Ayomide Amusan
nation	Nigeria
birthday	23rd April 1997 (age 23)
place of birth	Ijebu-Ode , Nigeria
size	156 cm
Weight	57 kg
job	Student
Career
discipline	Sprint , 100-meter hurdles
Best performance	12.48 s
Trainer	Mika Laaksonen
status	active
Medal table
Commonwealth Games 1 × 0 × 1 × Africa Games 2 × 0 × 0 × African Championships 2 × 0 × 0 × U20 African Championships 1 × 0 × 0 × U18 African Championships 0 × 1 × 1 ×
Commonwealth Games gold Gold Coast 2018 100 m hurdles bronze Gold Coast 2018 4 × 100 m  Africa Games gold Brazzaville 2015 100 m hurdles gold Rabat 2019 100 m hurdles  African Championships gold Asaba 2018 100 m hurdles gold Asaba 2018 4 × 100 m Junior African Championships gold Addis Ababa 2015 100 m hurdles Youth African Championships silver Warri 2013 200 m bronze Warri 2013 5.52 m
last change: January 31, 2020

Oluwatobiloba "Tobi" Ayomide Amusan (born April 23, 1997 in Ijebu-Ode ) is a Nigerian sprinter and hurdler who specializes in the 100 meter hurdles .

Athletic career

Tobi Amusan gained her first international experience at the 2013 African Youth Championships in Warri , where she won the silver medal in the 200-meter run in 24.45 s and bronze in the long jump with a jump of 5.52 m . She qualified over 200 meters for the Youth World Championships in Donetsk , where she was disqualified in the semi-finals, as well as with the Nigerian sprint relay (1000 meters) in the preliminary run. In 2014 she won the silver medal in the 100-meter hurdles at the African Youth Games in Gaborone and would have been eligible to compete in both the Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing and the Junior World Championships in Eugene . Due to the health situation in Nigeria with regard to Ebola fever , Nigeria did not send any athletes to international competitions this year. In 2015 she won the gold medal in 14.26 seconds at the Junior African Championships in Addis Ababa and in September in 13.15 seconds she secured the gold medal in the African Games in Brazzaville, Congo . In 2016 the student at the University of Texas at El Paso improved continuously and ran a wind-assisted time of 12.73 s at the university championships. In the same year she succeeded in setting a new junior world record of 12.83 s over the hurdles sprint distance. She was thus the favorite for the Junior World Championships in Bydgoszcz . In a very fast race, Amusan finished fifth in the final despite her second-best time ever, 12.95 s. At the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro , she reached the semi-finals , in which she was eliminated with 12.91 s.

In March 2017, she improved her own university record to 12.63 s and thus also set a world record for the year and qualified for the World Championships in London . There she made it to the semifinals and was eliminated there with 13.04 s. In 2018 she improved her record in the 60 meter hurdles to 7.89 s and qualified for the Indoor World Championships in Birmingham , where she finished seventh in the final with 8.05 s. At the beginning of April, she won the Commonwealth Games in the Australian Gold Coast in 12.68 s and won the bronze medal in the Nigerian 4 x 100 meter relay in 42.75 s. In the summer she won in 12.86 s at the African Championships in Asaba, home in the hurdles as well as with the relay in 43.77 s. Then she was disqualified in the Continental Cup in Ostrava in 12.96 s fifth and with the relay. The following year at the African Games in Rabat , she improved her compatriot Glory Alozie's record in the semifinals to 12.69 s, before improving it by a hundredth of a second to 12.68 s the following day, defending her 2015 title. In October she stayed at the World Championships in Doha both in the preliminary and in the semifinals with 12.48 s each, a hundredth of a second below her old personal best. In the final , she narrowly missed a medal as fourth in 12.49 seconds.

Personal bests

• 100 meters: 11.31 s (+0.6 m / s), March 24, 2018 in El Paso
  • 60 meters (hall): 7.41 s, February 2, 2019 in Albuquerque
• 200 meters: 22.92 s (+0.7 m / s), May 14, 2017 in El Paso
  • 200 meters (indoor): 23.35 s, 19 February 2017 in Birmingham
• 100 m hurdles: 12.48 s (+0.2 m / s), October 5, 2019 in Doha
  • 60 m hurdles (hall): 7.84 s, January 31, 2020 in Karlsruhe

Web links

Commons : Tobi Amusan  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Tobi Amusan in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Tobi Amusan in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Thomas Byrne: High and low - Tobi Amusan ( English ) IAAF. September 7, 2019. Retrieved November 7, 2018.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1021868/ebola-crisis-forces-nigeria-and-sierra-leone-out-of-nanjing-2014
2. ↑ https://www.iaaf.org/news/report/tobi-amusan-konrad-bukowiecki-shot-hurdles
3. ↑ https://www.iaaf.org/competitions/iaaf-world-u20-championships/iaaf-world-u20-championships-bydgoszcz-2016-5680/news/report/women/100-metres-hurdles/final
4. ↑ http://www.elpasotimes.com/story/sports/college/utep/2017/03/25/amusan-runs-best-time-world-utep-meet/99628670/