LAGOS AUGUST 9TH (NEWSRNAGERS)-Tobi Amusan, women’s 100m hurdles world record holder and Nigeria’s gold medal hope at the ongoing Paris 2024 Olympics, has missed out on qualifying for the final. In a semi-final race that was held on Friday, Amusan returned a time of 12.55 seconds to finish third behind Grace Stark of the United…
LAGOS JULY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s 100m hurdles world record holder, Tobi Amusan, finished in second position with a time of 12.60s (-1.7m/s) behind the USA’s Grace Stark, who won with a time of 12.58s on Saturday, July 20, at the pre-Olympics race in Florida. Amusan, Team Nigeria’s medal hopeful for the upcoming Paris 2024 Olympics, began…
LAGOS JUNE 29TH (NEWSRNAGERS)-100m hurdles world record holder Tobi Amusan has been cleared to run in the Paris Olympics after the sport’s top court on Friday dismissed appeals against the decision to clear her of a doping offence. Amusan, 27, was charged in July 2023 with missing three anti-doping tests in a period of 12…
LAGOS AUGUST 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-World Champion, Tobi Amusan, has won her 100mh heat at the ongoing World Athletics Championship. The competition is currently taking place in Budapest, Hungary. The world hurdles record holder clocked 12.48s (0.4) to win the fifth heat of the women’s 100mH despite not having enough time to slow down towards the end….
LAGOS AUGUST 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Tobi Amusan has not been given the all-clear to defend her title at the World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary next week, according to World Athletics. The Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) had excluded her name from the upcoming competition as a result of the doping investigation she was undergoing. But the AFN…
LAGOS AUGUST 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Tobi Amusan, the reigning World 100m hurdles champion will get the chance to defend her title in Budapest, Hungary if she is cleared of her whereabouts failures, World Athletics has declared. The world governing body for the sport has included the 26 year old in the list of athletes that will…
LAGOS JUY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-When Tobi Amusan climbed the stage of the 2022 World Athletics Championships to pick up the Gold medal.. she had no tears streaming down her eyes.. Then the national anthem of Nigeria was played.. Tears rolled down her eyes! .Tobi Amusan remembered how a country that refused to sponsor it’s athletes were…
LAGOS JULY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerians, including three presidential candidates, basked in the glory of the country’s first world athletics gold medal, welcoming a respite from bad news about economic hardships and deepening insecurity. Tobi Amusan, 25, won gold in the women’s 100m hurdles on Sunday in the World Athletics Championships after breaking the world record in…