Having started out as a conventional sprinter, Tobi Amusan took silver in the 100m hurdles at the 2014 African Youth Games. She won the African junior title in March 2015 and then, six months later, the 18-year-old Nigerian scorched to African Games gold in Brazzaville, Congo.
In 2016, she started at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) and broke 13 seconds for the first time with a run of 12.83. At the NCAA Outdoor Championships, she finished second behind University of Kentucky's Jasmine Camacho-Quinn. Both women went to the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, with Camacho-Quinn representing Puerto Rico, and made semi-final exits.
At the start of 2017, Amusan clocked a career best 12.63. She bettered that at the NCAA Outdoors, running 12.57 to reverse form with Camacho-Quinn from 12 months earlier. At August's World Championships in London, she would again go out in the semi-finals.
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