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BREAKING: Tobi Amusan Bounces Back, Wins Diamond League Trophy

With 12:33 seconds record, the Nigerian athlete won her third consecutive Diamond League title..

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Nigerian athlete, Tobi Amusan, has achieved a remarkable feat by securing her third consecutive Diamond League trophy.

VerseNews reports that on n Sunday night in Oregon, she won the fiercely contested 100m hurdles event with a time of 12.33 seconds, silencing her critics following a disappointing performance in Budapest.

With 12:33 seconds record, the Nigerian athlete won her third consecutive Diamond League title in the Women’s 100 metres hurdle.

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Puerto Rico’s Jasmine Camacho-Quin came second in 12.38s, while Kendra Harrison of the US finished third.

She set the record at the competition in Eugene, Oregon, USA, where she won the world title last year.

Amusan won her first Diamond League trophy in 2021 in 12.42 seconds and defended the title last year.

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She goes into history as the second woman in Diamond League history after Dawn Nelson-Harper to win a hat-trick of 100m hurdles titles.

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