Tobi Amusan continued her dominance of the women’s 100m hurdles as the reigning world champion and world record-holder yesterday won the women’s 100m hurdles event at the Gyulai Istvan Memorial meet in Szekesfehervar, central Hungary.
She held off 2019 world champion Nia Ali, who clocked 12.41, while her US compatriot Alaysha Johnson was third in 12.50.
Yesterday’ victory showed Amusan’s consistency following up her win in 12.34 secs at Sunday’s Diamond League meeting in Silesia with a 12.35 (-0.5m/s) winning performance at yet another World Athletics Continental Tour Gold event.
“It is great to win a competition but the most important thing is to be in good shape at the World Championships,” an elated Amusan said after the race.
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“My progress is going well, and I am looking forward to coming back to Hungary and competing with the best athletes next month.”
Meanwhile, in the women’s long jump, Serbia’s Milica Gardasevic soared to top spot, leaping 6.80m to win ahead of world silver medallist Ese Brume and Hungarian champion Petra Banhidi-Farkas. Gardasevic leapt 6.71m in the second round and that would have been enough – just – for her to triumph ahead of Brume with 6.69m from the same round. But the Serbian champion went even farther in the final round to consolidate her victory. Banhidi-Farkas’ best was 6.66m from the third round.