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Tobi Amusan Aims for New World Record at World Athletics Indoor Championships
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Amusan’s Ambition for World Indoor Glory
Tobi Amusan, the world record holder in the women’s 100m hurdles, is determined to pursue the 60m indoor record as she prepares for the 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships. The event is scheduled to take place from March 1 to 3 at the Commonwealth Arena in Glasgow, United Kingdom, according to PUNCH Sports Extra.
Despite losing her title at the last World Championships in Budapest in 2023, Amusan still maintains the women’s 100m hurdles record of 12.12s, which she achieved at the World Championships in Oregon in 2022.
With the Paris Olympics also on the horizon this year, the 26-year-old has started the 2024 season on a strong note by breaking the women’s 60m African record twice within a week.
During her first race of the 2024 season at the World Athletics Indoor Tour in Astana on January 27, Amusan clocked an impressive time of 7.77s, claiming a dominant victory and breaking Glory Alozie’s 25-year-old African record of 7.82s in the process.
A week later at the New Balance Indoor Grand Prix in Boston, she further lowered the record to a remarkable 7.75s, securing a second-place finish in a highly competitive race won by the USA’s Tia Jones, who also achieved a new personal best of 7.72s.
Following her race in Boston, Amusan expressed her ambition to break the 60m hurdles world record of 7.68s, currently held by former Swedish athlete Susanna Kallur.
In a post-race interview with Citius Mag in Boston, she revealed, “Honestly, yeah. Knowing that the first five hurdles are not my forte, and you know we’re working really hard to get that part of my race secured, and with the way things are going, why not? I don’t know but, being a world record holder sounds great.”
Having already surpassed the entry standard of 8.02s for the World Indoor Championships, she mentioned that her participation hinges on at least one more race before the tournament in Glasgow.
“Coming into this meet, we didn’t have plans of running at World Indoors. But my coach and I had an agreement, ‘you run three 7.7s, you go to the world indoors’,” she stated in an interview with Citius Mag on Sunday.
“So, this is the second one so let’s see,” Amusan added.
In 2022, she became Nigeria’s first world record holder and world champion when she excelled in Oregon, and her current form indicates that she could secure a double world champion and record holder title ahead of the Olympics, where she’s yet to win a medal.
Before the World Indoor Championships in March, Amusan has the opportunity to compete at the Meeting Indoor de Lyon on February 9, as well as the Belgrade Indoor Meeting on February 13, with the aim of achieving her third 7.7s of the season.
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