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#2024JAI | Amusan soars to world-leading time

Published:Saturday | May 11, 2024 | 9:16 PMOrane Buchanan/Staff Reporter -
Nigeria’s Tobi Amusan (left) goes over the final hurdle ahead of Jamaica's Danielle Williams to win the women's 100 metres hurdles at the Jamaica Athletics Invitational at the National Stadium tonight.
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Nigeria’s Tobi Amusan (left) goes over the final hurdle ahead of Jamaica's Danielle Williams to win the women's 100 metres hurdles at the Jamaica Athletics Invitational at the National Stadium tonight.

Nigeria’s world record holder Tobi Amusan soared to a world-leading time of 12.40 seconds as she took the women’s 100 metres hurdles at the Jamaica Athletics Invitational inside the National Stadium tonight.

Jamaica’s Danielle Williams finished second in a season’s best of 12.46 seconds, while United States of America’s Christina Clemens finished third in 12.54.

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