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Amusan Wins Silver At Lausanne Diamond League

Nigeria’s Tobi Amusan on Friday evening scooped the silver medal in the final of the 100m Hurdles of the 2022 Diamond League Meeting in Lusannne, Switzerland reports Prime Business Africa.

The World and Commonwealth Games record holder ran a time of 12.45 seconds to finish behind Jasmine Camacho-Quin who clinched a new Meeting Record of 12.34s (-0.9).

Camacho-Quinn was the gold medallist in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics of the Women’s Hurdles event.

Tia Jones ran a new Personal Best of 12.47s to take the bronze.

Amusan was imperious at the World Athletics Championships and the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.

Izuchukwu Okosi

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.