World record holder Nigeria’s Tobi Amusan failed to defend her World title after finishing 6th in the Women’s 100m hurdles final at the ongoing World Athletics Championship in Budapest on Thursday.
Danielle Williams of Jamaica, who previously won in Beijing in 2015, won the title in a season-best of 12.43s edging out Olympic champion, Jasmine Camacho-Quinn of Puerto Rico (12.44s) in second with Kendra Harrison of the United States taking bronze (12.46).
World champion Amusan finished 6th (12.62s) in her third consecutive final while 2019 winner Nia Ali finished in the last position.
Amusan finished first with a 12.40 African record at the 2022 World Championship in Eugene, USA before setting a new world record of 12.12 to smash the 12.20 world record set by Kendra Harrison in 2016.
The world hurdles record holder missed out on the chance of becoming the fourth woman after USA’s duo of Gail Devers and Michelle Perry, and Australian Sally Pearson, to claim at least two gold medals in the women’s 100m Hurdles at the World Championships.
It was a third consecutive final for the Nigerian athlete who competed against Olympic champion, Puerto Rico’s Jasmine Camacho-Quinn, Switzerland’s Ditaji Kambundji, Bahamas’ Devynne Charlton, the duo of Kendra Harrison and Nia Ali from the United States of America, and the Jamaican duo of Ackera Nugent and Danielle Williams at the National Athletics Centre in Budapest, Hung.
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