Amusan will be up against Camacho-Quinn and Jones again at the Diamond League meet in Lausanne, Switzerland, on Friday, where another explosive race is expected
Nigeria’s Tobiloba Amusan ran a season’s best time of 12.47 seconds at Ostrava’s Golden Spike meeting on Tuesday, but it wasn’t fast enough to give her the number one position in the women’s hurdles event.
2019 world champion Nia Ali of the United States finished a distant fourth in 12.75 seconds at the Mestsky Stadion in the World Athletics Continental Tour Gold meeting.Despite coming in third, Amusan appears pleased with her steady improvement this season and is looking forward to her first appearance in the Diamond League.
Crouser, the world and Olympic men’s shot put champion, threw a new mark of 22.63m, with New Zealand’s Commonwealth Games gold medallist Tom Walsh second on 22.15m.
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