Tobi Amusan’s Name Will Remain On The Entry List Ahead Of AIU Judgement – Samuel Onikeku

World women’s 100m hurdles champion and record holder, Tobi Amusan is missing from Team Nigeria’s list of 26 athletes for the World Athletics Championships.

Recall that the list was released by the Athletics Federation of Nigeria on Tuesday, August 8, and fans have been reacting.

Silver medallist at last year’s championships, Ese Brume made the list, and she will be aiming to claim gold in Budapest.

Brume will be joined in the long jump event by Ruth Usoro, Sade Olatoye (Hammer) and Chioma Onyekwere (Discuss).

Technical Director of the AFN, Samuel Onikeku said, “We have perfected the list and it has been released. But unfortunately, it is the AIU who can comment on Amusan’s case.”

“She is on the entry list sent to the World Athletics; they cannot remove it because AIU has not taken a decision on her. If they remove it now and they say she is free to compete, she might not be able to go again, so the best way is to leave her name there. If they say she is free to compete, fine, if she is not free to compete, they can remove it. But in the meantime, her name is on the entry list submitted to the World Athletics.”

WOW.

Oluwatobiloba Ayomide “Tobi” Amusan 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 meet record holder in those three competitions. Amusan became the first ever Nigerian world champion and world record holder in an athletics event when she won the 2022 World Championships 100 m hurdles gold medal, setting the current world record of 12.12 seconds (+0.9m/s) in the semi-final, followed up by a 12.06 seconds (+2.5m/s) in the final.

She won back-to-back Commonwealth and African titles in 2018 and 2022 in the 100 m hurdles and is also a two-time African Games champion in the event. She is also the current Diamond league champion in the 100 metres hurdles having won the final in 12.29 seconds (-0.3m/s) winning back to back titles in 2022 and 2023.

Tobi Amusan was born on April 23, 1997, in Ijebu Ode, Ogun State, Nigeria, to Mr and Mrs Amusan, who are school teachers. Tobi, as she is fondly called, is the youngest of three children. She attended Our Lady of Apostles Secondary School in her hometown. In May 2023, Amusan earned Master of Arts degree in Leadership Studies and Sports Management at the University of Texas at El Paso.