{"id":1231,"date":"2022-07-26T09:26:26","date_gmt":"2022-07-26T08:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wepbi.com\/en\/?p=1231"},"modified":"2022-07-26T09:26:30","modified_gmt":"2022-07-26T08:26:30","slug":"hard-work-pays-as-tobi-amusan-grabs-the-world-champion-of-athletics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wepbi.com\/en\/hard-work-pays-as-tobi-amusan-grabs-the-world-champion-of-athletics\/","title":{"rendered":"Hard work pays as Tobi Amusan grabs the world champion of Athletics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">History has been made as Nigeria\u2019s Tobi Amusan walked away with a cheque of $100,000 for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/2022\/07\/world-championships-tobi-amusan-wins-100m-hurdles-final-breaks-world-record\/\">breaking the World record in the women\u2019s 100m hurdles event\u00a0<\/a>in Eugene, Oregon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Nigerian athlete won the final in a wind-assisted time of 12.06s better than the 12.12s she ran in the semis. The time was later ruled ineligible as the wind speed exceeded the legal limit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tobi who is presently the Commonwealth Champion defeated Jamaica\u2019s Britany Anderson who finished second and Olympic Champion from Cuba, Jasmine Camacho-Quinn who came third.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">World Athletics on it\u2019s Twitter handles wrote: \u201cContinuing to put our pledges towards greater gender equality into practice. #WeGrowAthletics by proudly funding the women\u2019s world record programme at #WorldAthleticsChamps.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tobi Amusan became the first Nigerian ever to win gold at the World Athletics Championships after racing to a stunning world record time of 12.06s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The world champion could not hold her emotions when Nigeria\u2019s national anthem was played during her Gold medal celebration as she shed tears of joy.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">&nbsp;<\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>History has been made as Nigeria\u2019s Tobi Amusan walked away with a cheque of $100,000 for\u00a0breaking the World record in the women\u2019s 100m hurdles event\u00a0in Eugene, Oregon. The Nigerian athlete won the final in a wind-assisted time of 12.06s better than the 12.12s she ran in the semis. The time&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":95,"featured_media":1232,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wepbi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wepbi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wepbi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wepbi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/95"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wepbi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1231"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wepbi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1233,"href":"https:\/\/wepbi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231\/revisions\/1233"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wepbi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wepbi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wepbi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wepbi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}