Izuchukwu OkosiWorld record holder in the women’s 100m hurdles event, Nigeria’s Tobi Amusan finished a disappointing 6th in the Women’s 100m hurdles final Thursday night at the World Athletics Championship in Budapest, Hungary reports Prime Business Africa.
The race was won by Danielle Williams of Jamaica in a season’s best time of 12.43 seconds.
Jasmine Camacho-Quinn took the silver medal as she finished just one second behind the winner for an incredible finish line while Britain’s Keni Harrison ran a time of 12.46 seconds to emerge the third-placed hurdler on the podium place.
Amusan who was provisionally suspended by the Athletics Integrity Unit before that decision was rescinded started off the blocks on a noticeably slow note.
The attention for Amusan will now shift to the the 2024 Olympics games in Paris.
Below are the athletes that ran on Thursday evening and the time they posted in the final of the women’s 100m hurdles final.
12.43🇯🇲Danielle Williams – SB
12.44🇵🇷Jasmine Camacho-Quinn
12.46🇺🇸Keni Harrison
12.52🇧🇸Devynne Charlton
12.61🇯🇲Ackera Nugent
12.62🇳🇬Tobi Amusan
12.70🇨🇭Ditaji Kambundji
12.78🇺🇸Nia Al
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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