By Olalekan Okusan
Despite 100th outside the meeting record, Diamond League champion Tobi Amusan eased to a comfortable win in the women’s 100m hurdles at the Boris Hanzekovic Memorial in Zagreb, Croatia.
Touted as the favourite and fresh from becoming the first Nigerian to win IAAF Diamond League, Amusan showed her class in the star-studded event with a smooth victory of 12.61secs to end the season on the high.
The Commonwealth gold medalist beat Poland’s Klaudia Siciarz and Finland’s Reetta Hurske to second and third places respectively in the final World Athletics Continental Tour Gold event of the year in Europe.
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Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games finalist Enoch Adegoke was not lucky in the men’s 100m as the national champion finished seventh in a race of high quality won by USA’s Marvin Bracy in 9.86 (0.8m/s), just 0.01 shy of Usain Bolt’s 10-year-old meeting record. US teammates Ronnie Baker and Trayvon Bromell completed the top three in 9.97 and 10.03 respectively.
Apart from Amusan, other African athletes dazzled with Burundi’s Francine Niyonsaba erasing more than two seconds off Genzebe Dibaba’s world 2000m record with a brilliant run of 5:21.56 in Zagreb.
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