Nigeria loses hope for any medal as Tobi Amusan, the 2022 world champion and world record holder in the women’s 100m hurdles, fails to clinch a position in the finals of the women’s 100m hurdles event at the Paris 2024 Olympics on Friday.
Amusan, 27, ran in the sixth lane but finished 3rd with a time of 12.55 seconds in the Heat 1 of the event on Friday. Her time of 12.55s left her in the ninth place, just one spot outside the top eight who made it into Saturday’s final.
Winning first and second place are Jamaica’s Ackera Nugent who finished at 12.44s and France’s Cyrena Samba-Mayela who finished at 12.52s in the Heat 3.
On Wednesday, Amusan led the pack of eight athletes with 12.49s, followed by America’s Alaysha Johnson with 12.61s and Jamaica’s Janeek Brown with 12.84s.
Another event of the series of Nigeria’s disappointing outings at the Olympics is the announcement that Team Nigeria will not compete in the final of the Men’s 4×400 event at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games
A quartet of Emmanuel Ojeli, Ezekiel Nathaniel, Dubem Amene, and Chidi Okezie ran a season’s best 2:59.81s to finish 2nd in their semifinal heat. They were, however, disqualified by the officials after one of the athletes was adjudged to have stepped out of the line.
It’s a sad season for the country with no medal in sight.
