Tobi Amusan advances to 100m hurdles semifinals at Tokyo World Championships

World grounds holder Tobi Amusan has precocious to the semi-finals of the women’s 100m hurdles astatine the ongoing World Athletics Championships successful Tokyo, Japan, aft a ascendant show successful her vigor connected Sunday.

The 28-year-old Nigerian prima clocked 12.53s to decorativeness archetypal successful vigor six, securing an automatic spot successful Tuesday’s semi-finals. Bahamas’ Devynne Charlton followed successful 2nd spot with 12.69s, portion Italy’s Elena Carraro placed 3rd successful 12.86s.

Other large names successful the event, including Olympic champion Masai Russell (USA), reigning satellite champion Danielle Williams (Jamaica), Dutch hurdler Nadine Visser, arsenic good arsenic Ackera Nugent and Grace Stark, besides progressed smoothly from their respective heats.

Tobi Amusan is acceptable to instrumentality to the way connected Tuesday erstwhile some the semi-finals and the last of the women’s 100m hurdles volition instrumentality place.

In different events, Nigeria’s Sade Olatoye competed successful the women’s hammer propulsion but failed to scope the last aft signaling a champion propulsion of 68.82m, falling abbreviated of the qualification mark.

Later connected Sunday, Nigeria’s Kanyisola Ajayi and Israel Okon volition enactment up successful the men’s 100m semi-finals and final, scheduled for the evening league of time two.

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