World Athletics has ratified Tobi Amusan’s 100m Hurdles Record.

Newsone reports that the women’s world 100m hurdles record set by Tobi Amusan at the 2022 World Championships, has been ratified by the World Athletics, the international governing body for the sport of athletics.

This online news platform understands that the international governing body for the sport of athletics also ratified the record times of two other athletes — Mondo Duplantis and Sydney McLaughlin in a statement on Tuesday, September 20, 2022.

Newsone Naija reports that all records were set at the World Athletics Championships that took place in Oregon, the United States of America (USA) in July 2022.

“The world records set by Tobi Amusan, Mondo Duplantis, and Sydney McLaughlin at the World Athletics Championships Oregon22 have been ratified,” the statement reads.

“Amusan’s 12.12 in the women’s 100m hurdles semi-finals, Duplantis’s 6.21m in the men’s pole vault final, and McLaughlin’s 50.68 in the women’s 400m hurdles final are all now officially in the record books, as is the world U20 mark of 9.94 set by Letsile Tebogo in the men’s 100m heats.”

Amusan, a 25-year-old Nigerian took the athletics world by surprise with a record time of 12.12 seconds in the semi-finals heat at the event, breaking the six-year-old record held by USA’s Kendra Harrison.

Amusan went on to run a record 12.06 seconds in the final but was not acknowledged due to in-race wind gust that was higher than allowed. She became the first Nigerian world champion at the World Athletics Championships with a gold medal in the 100m hurdles.

Tobi Amusan is also the current African, commonwealth, and world champion in the 100m hurdles, and holds the race record in the three competitions. She was recently conferred with the Officer of the Order of the Niger (OON) by President Muhammadu Buhari.