Nearly a year ago to the day at the Tokyo Olympics, Tobi Amusan finished the women's 100 meter hurdles medal race in arguably the worst place you can finish at a major track and field event: fourth.
But on Sunday during the last session of the 2022 World Athletics Championships, Amusan, a Nigerian who was an NCAA champion at Texas-El Paso, had the evening of her life.
If Amusan was overwhelmed or mentally preoccupied by her sensational semifinal, you certainly couldn't tell it in the final: running very close with American Alia Armstrong and Jamaican Britany Anderson over the first four hurdles, Amusan began pulling away after the fifth and maintained it for the World Championship win.
The three semi races were brilliant across the board: of the 24 women who competed, there were four national records and seven other women ran lifetime bests in addition to Amusan's world mark. For the women, it was Talitha Diggs, Abby Steiner, Dalilah Muhammad and Sydney McLaughlin winning gold, posting a time of 3:17.79, also one of the fastest times ever.
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