Tobi Amusan

Tobi Amusan

Oluwatobiloba Ayomide Amusan (born 23 April 1997) is a Nigerian track and field athlete who specialises in the 100 metres hurdles and also competes as a sprinter. She is the current World, Commonwealth and African champion in the 100 m hurdles, as well as, the record holder in the three competitions. She became Nigeria’s first-ever world champion and a world record holder in athletics at the Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon, smashing the former record held by Jasmine Camacho-Quinn. She is also the current Diamond league champion in the 100 metres hurdles having won the final in 12.33 seconds (+1.8m/s) achieving a winning streak in 2021, 2022 and 2023.

Quotes

• The goal was to come out and to win this gold, Honestly, I believe in my abilities, but I was not expecting a world record at these championships.
  • World Athletics Ratifies Tobi Amusan’s 100m Hurdles Record (24 July 2022)

• Unknown now, but I will be UNFORGETTABLE … I will Persist until I SUCCEED ….
  • Amusan wrote on Twitter (8 November 2016)

• At this moment, Kendra owns the record and I don’t have any but she doesn’t have two heads. It will be good for me to run a PR or break the world record if she is not careful–just kidding…
  • Her reply during an interview with Making of Champions

• Physically, I think I was ready, but mentally I wasn’t. I think my mentality let me down.
  • At the Tokyo Olympic Games

• Remember someone saying that I'm a giant in Africa, but a wounded lion on the world stage.
  • From near quitting to record-breaking: Tobi Amusan's emotional journey to becoming the world's fastest 100m hurdler. 26 August 2024, Olympics.

Quotes about Tobi

• This is good news for Nigerian athletics and sports in general and I pray and hope it inspires this generation of sports men and women of this generation and other generations to come.
  • Endurance Ojokolo as quoted in Endurance Ojokolo: Tobi Amusan’s incredible feats will inspire others, Sportsnow, November 14, 2022.
• Hard work pays. Tobi is a hardworking girl who believes so much in herself and her coach (Jamaica's Lacena Golden-Clark). She didn’t give up after coming close to making the podium twice, first at the World Championships in Doha, Qatar in 2019 where she came fourth and at the delayed 2020 Olympics in Tokyo, Japan where she also came fourth, losing by the narrowest of margins, especially in 2019. She never doubted herself or her coach.
  • Endurance Ojokolo as quoted in Endurance Ojokolo: Tobi Amusan’s incredible feats will inspire others, Sportsnow, November 14, 2022.