Celebrated Nigerian athlete, Tobi Amusan gets N65m($100,00) over her world record, in the women’s 100m hurdles event in Eugene, Oregon.

Tobi Amusan won the final in a world record break of 12.06s better than the 12.12s she ran in the semis. The time was later ruled ineligible as the wind speed exceeded the legal limit.

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Tobi Amusan who is the current Commonwealth Champion beat Jamaica’s Britany Anderson who finished second and Olympic Champion from Cuba, Jasmine Camacho-Quinn who came third.

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World Athletics on its Twitter handles wrote: “Continuing to put our pledges towards greater gender equality into practice. #WeGrowAthletics by proudly funding the women’s world record programme at #WorldAthleticsChamps.”

World record (12.12) ✔️
World 100m hurdles champion 🥇#WorldAthleticsChamps #WeGrowAthletics pic.twitter.com/5l5L7w6Ybj

— World Athletics (@WorldAthletics) July 25, 2022

👏 Tobi Amusan

Continuing to put our pledges towards greater gender equality into practice.#WeGrowAthletics by proudly funding the women's world record programme at #WorldAthleticsChamps. pic.twitter.com/elhksfvQTq

— World Athletics (@WorldAthletics) July 25, 2022