Izuchukwu OkosiWorld Athletic and Commonwealth Games champion Tobi Amusan on Sunday night braced the tape to win the women’s 100m hurdle in the Silesia Diamond League.
Amusan who recently qualified for the 2023 World Athletics Championship in in Budapest starting in August set a season-best record of 12.34s to win the gold prize.
American Kendra Harrison came a close second after Amusan caught up with her in a nail-biting race to the finish line.
Newly crowned US champion Nia Ali finished in third place with a time of 12.38s while Jamaican champion Megan Tapper finished fourth ahead of her compatriot Danielle Williams in fifth.
“It was not easy for me with injuries in my hamstring & my knee. But I trusted in my coach & my work. It’s all about the process,” Amusan told the media after her feat.
“I just won this in a smooth style, I was just running. Honestly, I had no idea that I won when I crossed the finish line,” the Nigerian further stated.
Sunday night’s achievement was the fastest time this season for the Nigerian who has now equalled the feat of Jasmine Camacho-Quinn MR.
The record means she has climbed to the top of the Diamond League standings where she is seven points ahead of Camacho-Quinn, who for the first time, didn’t feature in a Diamond League meet this season.
Izuchukwu Okosi is a Nigerian sports and entertainment journalist with two decades of experience in the media industry having begun his media journey in 2002 as an intern at Mundial Sports International (MSI) and Africa Independent Television (AIT), owners of Daar Communications Plc.
In October 2004, Okosi joined Complete Communications Limited, publishers of Complete Sports newspaper and Complete Football magazine as a reporter and later script writer for the Complete Sports studio.
He worked there for 13 years until October 2017.
Okosi also worked various times as Correspondent, Content creator and Editor at Sports Market International Magazine, Opera News, All Nigeria Soccer Media and Iconic Media Watch.
He also undertook freelance writing gigs for some local and international organizations.
Okosi is a member of the Actors Guild of Nigeria (AGN), Association of Movie Producers (AMP), Association of Voiceover Artistes of Nigeria (AVOA), Sports Writers Association of Nigeria (SWAN) and Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ).
He has been part of cast in some Nollywood movies and radio dramas including Blood Money 2, Scores To Settle, Dead End 2, Another Campus Tale and Battle Line.
Aside mainstream media and the entertainment industry, he has interests in scouting/unearthing of talents in the sports and creative sectors, exports business and property development.
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