World record holder in 100m Hurdles, Tobi Amusan finally picked a medal for Team Nigeria at the final of the event at the ongoing World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan.
Amusan finished in 12.29s behind Dominican Republic’s Ditaji Kambundji in 12.24s, and Grace Stark of the U.S was third in 12.34s
The silver winning effort at least comforts Amusa, who has had some rough patches since the World Championships in 2022 at Oregun.
Meanwhile, NCAA 400m Hurdles Champion, Ezekiel Nathaniel made it to the semi final from Heat 5 finishing in 48.37s, followed by Caleb Dean of the U.S in 48.67s, and third was Brazil’s Francisco Dos Reis Viana in 48.69s.
The 22 year old Nathaniel, ranked 5th in the world this year, had his race under control and finished with the 10th fastest time among the 5 heats in the event.
Abderrahman Samba of Qatar has the fastest time going to the semi final with a time of 48.03s.
Other qualifiers for the semis are Rai Benjamin, Matheus Lima, Tyri Donovan, Chris Robinson, Malik James-King, Wiseman Were Mukhobe, Emil Agyekum, Ismail Doudai Abakar, Bassem Hemeida and Alison Dos Santos .
Three other African hurdlers who made the semis are Wiseman Were Mukhobe of Kenya in 48.27s, Botswana duo of Victor Ntweng in a time of 48.54s and Kemorena Tisang in 48.72s.
The 24 semi finalists will be searching for 8 tickets from the three semi final races on Wednesday.
In men’s long jump, Charles Edward Godfred, failed to make it to the final as his third and final jump of 7.79 was .17cm off the last qualifier’s mark.