International document holder within the Ladies’s 100m hurdles, Tobi Amusan, will run her first race of the season on the Queen’s/Grace Jackson Meet in Kingston, Jamaica on Saturday when she is going to strike the tracks within the 60m match on the meet, PUNCH Sports activities Residue reviews.
Amusan is anticipated to race towards the house lady and considered one of Jamaica’s magnificient athletes, Jackson, marking the primary year they’ll be competing in the similar match.
It’ll be Amusan’s first authentic race because the 2024 Olympics in Paris and for Jackson as smartly nearest pulling out of the Video games terminating 12 months.
The 27-year-old, who made a training transfer in September 2024, is now underneath the tutelage of Usain Bolt’s schoolmaster Glen Turbines in Jamaica and shall be having a look ahead to creating a glorious begin to the season nearest really fizzling out of the terminating marketing campaign.
Alternatively, the meet isn’t International Athletics qualified, therefore is not going to depend for qualification functions for the 2025 International Championships which shall be held in Tokyo from September 13 to 21 in Tokyo, Japan.
Additionally indexed to run the ladies’s 60m on the Queen’s/Grace Jackson Meet are former global teenage champion Anthonique Strachan, and Jonielle Smith.
Alternative stars anticipated to compete are Zharnel Hughes, Tyquendo Tracy, and Brendon Rodney.
Amusan is the flow global document holder within the 100m hurdles with a year of 12.1s which she ran on the semi-final of the 2022 International Championships in Oregon. She received the sector name the similar night time to grow to be Nigeria’s first-ever global champion in athletics.
For Nigeria, she has competed in 3 Olympics and could also be a four-time African Video games champion, five-time African champion, three-time Diamond League winner (2021, 2022, 2023), and two-time Commonwealth Video games champion (2018 and 2022).
She used to be just lately inducted into the College of Texas El Paso’s, Corridor of Reputation.