OregonGoldRush | Amusan takes gold, Anderson bags brilliant 100mh silver
Published:Sunday | July 24, 2022 | 9:31 PM
Jamaica’s Britany Anderson bagged a World Athletics Championships silver medal behind new world record holder, Nigeria’s Tobi Amusan, in the women’s 100-metre hurdles this evening.
Amusan, who had run a world record, 12:12 seconds, in the semi-finals, was even more brilliant in the final, clocking 12.06 to dismiss the quickest field ever assembled over the event.
Unfortunately, the wind reading was 2.5 metres per second, just over the 2.0 legal limit, denying the Nigerian, who was winning the country’s first World Championships gold medal, a second world record.
Anderson was in sparkling form, getting out of the blocks early and running cleanly to clock 12:23, just three-hundredths of a second off what was the United States’ Kendra Harrison’s 12.20 world record.
The clocking from Anderson would have, again, lowered Jamaica’s national record if not for the wind.
Harrison, herself was disqualified after pushing down the second to last hurdle following a couple of clips that put her off balance.
Puerto Rico’s Jasmine Camacho-Quinn, the pre-race favourite who like Anderson, clocked 12.23, was third, while the United States’ Alia Armstrong was fourth in 12.31.
Great Britain’s Cindy Sember was fifth in 12.38, finishing ahead of Jamaica’s other representative in the final, Danielle Williams (12.44).
The Caribbean’s final entrant, the Bahamas’ Devynne Charlton was seventh in 12.53.
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