{"id":24548,"date":"2022-07-25T06:06:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-25T06:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=24548"},"modified":"2022-07-25T06:06:00","modified_gmt":"2022-07-25T06:06:00","slug":"nigerias-tobi-amusan-sets-hurdles-world-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2022\/07\/25\/nigerias-tobi-amusan-sets-hurdles-world-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria&#8217;s Tobi Amusan sets hurdles world record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-reactid=\".18jo9ajassu.0.2.0.0.1.0.$lx-commentary.$lx-commentary.2.0.1.1.1:$post-62de10f81136d922db66f6d6.0.6.0.0:$post_1\">Nigeria&#8217;s Tobi Amusan has won gold in the women&#8217;s 100m hurdles at the World Athletics Championships in the United States.<\/p>\n<p data-reactid=\".18jo9ajassu.0.2.0.0.1.0.$lx-commentary.$lx-commentary.2.0.1.1.1:$post-62de10f81136d922db66f6d6.0.6.0.0:$post_2\">The 25-year-old broke the world record in the semi-finals with a time of 12.12 seconds. Her time beats the 12.20 seconds set by American Kendra Harrison, who finished second behind Amusan, in 2016.<\/p>\n<p data-reactid=\".18jo9ajassu.0.2.0.0.1.0.$lx-commentary.$lx-commentary.2.0.1.1.1:$post-62de10f81136d922db66f6d6.0.6.0.0:$post_3\">Amusan went on to win gold in the final, two hours later.<\/p>\n<p data-reactid=\".18jo9ajassu.0.2.0.0.1.0.$lx-commentary.$lx-commentary.2.0.1.1.1:$post-62de10f81136d922db66f6d6.0.6.0.0:$post_4\">She ran even faster in the final itself &#8211; but the wind speed meant it could not be registered as another record.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria&#8217;s Tobi Amusan has won gold in the women&#8217;s 100m hurdles at the World Athletics Championships in the United States. The 25-year-old broke the world record in the semi-finals with a time of 12.12 seconds. Her time beats the 12.20 seconds set by American Kendra Harrison, who finished second behind Amusan, in 2016. Amusan went [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":24549,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3295],"tags":[10762,5918,7561,434,5549,7562,9262,5320,36,11771,7560,594,11146],"class_list":["post-24548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-sport","tag-athletics","tag-gold","tag-hurdles","tag-nigeria","tag-nigerian","tag-toni-amusan","tag-united-states","tag-women","tag-world","tag-world-athletics","tag-world-champion","tag-who","tag-world-record"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}