World record holder and Nigeria’s queen of the tracks, Tobi Amusan, showed an exceptional performance at the Diamond League meet in Rabat, Morocco, winning the women’s 100 metres hurdles late Sunday.
Amusan, 28, finished in a season’s best of 12:24 seconds, setting a new meeting record that broke McNeal Brianna’s past mark of 12:51 seconds. Her win in Rabat is the first major victory for the Nigerian in the 2025 season. She began her campaign with a successive fourth-place finish at the Xiamen and Shanghai Diamond League meets in May.
While she also claimed victory in March at Jamaica’s Velocity Fest 16, though against a less competitive field, the result reaffirmed her status as a leading contender ahead of the World Championships in Tokyo.
The Rabat triumph represented a major turning point after a disappointing end to her 2024 season, which saw her miss out on the final of the women’s 100m hurdles at the Paris Olympics.
Speaking after the race, Amusan credited a renewed focus on technique.
“More hurdles practice, because I had been doing more sprinting. After the first two Diamond League meetings, I knew I had to go back to doing more hurdle drills. Two weeks in, I can tell the difference.”
With the hurdles event excluded from the Doha Diamond League meet, Rabat became a crucial platform for Amusan to reignite her season, and she seized the moment in emphatic fashion.
