“I humbly introduce to you the youngest female miner to be inducted into UTEP’s Hall Of Fame Class of 2024. Amusan competed for the Miners for two seasons between 2016 and 2017 where she first captured the national title in the 100m hurdles (12.57s) at the 2017 NCAA Outdoor Championships. Amusan was also a five-time Conference USA champion and holds the school record in the 60m hurdles indoors (7.98s) and the 100m hurdles outdoors (12.57s). Amusan is the current world record holder in the 100m hurdles with a time of 12.1s which she ran at the semi-final of the 2022 World Championships in Oregon. She won the world title the same evening to become Nigeria’s first-ever world champion in athletics.

Source: Punch November 26, 2024 01:23 UTC