Nigeria’s Tobi Amusan has raced to the season’s best time of 12.24 seconds in winning the women’s 100 meters hurdles at the Diamond League meet in Rabat, Morocco.
In finishing ahead of the chasing pack, the 28-year-old hurdler’s time set a new meeting record, breaking McNeal Brianna’s previous mark of 12.51 seconds.
This is Amusan’s first major victory of the 2025 season after opening her campaign with a successive fourth-place finish at both the Xiamen and Shanghai Diamond League meets early in May.
In March, she won Velocity Fest 16 in Jamaica, running against a weaker line-up of hurdlers.
The latest victory opens a clean chapter for Amusan, following the disappointing end to her 2024 athletics season, during which she failed to make the final of the women’s 100m hurdles at the Paris Olympics.

After last season, Amusan began training with Racers Track Club, which is led by Glen Mills, the former coach of the legendary Usain Bolt.
Speaking on her triumph in Rabat, Amusan credited her training routine with improving her execution in Morocco.
She said; “More hurdles practice, because I have been doing more sprinting. It was after the first two Diamond League meetings, I knew I had to go back to doing more hurdle drills. Two weeks in, I can tell the difference.”
The Nigerian runner won the Diamond League trophy for the women’s 100 meters hurdles thrice from 2021 to 2023.
She is the current world record holder in the women’s 100-meter hurdles with a time of 12.12 seconds. Amusan set the record in the semi-final of the 2022 World Athletics Championships in Eugene, Oregon, United States of America.