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“En route legendary status” – Ex-Super Eagles coach hails Nigeria’s record-making Commonwealth Games speed-queen
The 1994 Africa Cup of Nations winner has been left bewildered by the achievement of the younger girl rewriting the Athletics document books
Former Tremendous Eagles head coach Augustine Eguavoen believes unrivalled Nigerian hurdler Tobi Amusan is on her method to turning into a legend of the game.
Eguavoen’s newest reward of Amusan got here after the 25-year-old speedster powered to the gold medal within the girls’s 100m hurdles on the 2022 Commonwealth Video games in Birmingham, United Kingdom.
Amusan, just a few days in the past, set a brand new world document on the way in which to successful Nigeria’s first gold medal within the 100m hurdles on the World Athletics Championships in Oregon, the US.
The monitor queen took that good kind to Birmingham, UK, and on Sunday morning, she ran a brand new Video games document of 12.30s to make sure one other podium end for Nigeria.
The Nigerian Amazon outran Bahamas’ Devynne Charlton (12.58secs), who took silver and England’s Cindy Sember (12.59secs) who took bronze.
With the win, Amusan turns into the primary world 100m hurdle champion to win Commonwealth gold and the primary Nigerian athlete to do the identical.
Impressed with Amusan’s dominance, Tremendous Eagles legend Eguavoen believes Amusan is destined for greatness.
Whereas posting the hurdler’s race, Eguavoen wrote on his Twitter account: “Tobi Amusan en route legendary standing.”
Toni Amusan en route Legendary standing. pic.twitter.com/cT8XzIg2cU
— Austin Eguavoen (@coacheguavoen) August 7, 2022
Other than Eguavoen, present Tremendous Eagles head coach Jose Peseiro can also be an enormous fan of Amusan.
One other Commonwealth gold for Amusan?
In what has turned out to be a Tremendous Sunday, Amusan has additionally received her second gold medal – within the 4X100m – on the Birmingham Commonwealth Video games 2022.
Moments after her hurdles closing race, Amusan was drafted into the Nigeria 4X100m relay race, changing Pleasure Udo-Gabriel.
???COMMONWEALTH GAMES CHAMPIONS!
Make method for the Nigerian quartet of Tobi Amusan, Favour Ofili, Rosemary Chukwuma, Grace Nwokocha who’ve simply run a brand new AFRICAN RECORD of 4⃣2⃣.1⃣0⃣s to win GOLD within the girls’s 4x100m??
These girls had been on hearth…merely excellent ?? pic.twitter.com/7I8fvrza6V
— Making of Champions (@MakingOfChamps) August 7, 2022
In the course of the closing, Amusan began the lead leg and, with the trio of Favour Ofili, Rosemary Chukwuma, and Grace Nwokocha, helped Nigeria win the race in a brand new African document of 42.10s.
(4x100M) Relay Ladies’s Closing – Nigeria ?? win Gold ? in emphatic trend with an (AR) document of 42.10s to safe their eleventh Gold. #Birmigham2022 #TeamNigeriaCWG2022 #CommonwealthGames #B2022Festival #Birmingham22 #B2022 pic.twitter.com/5jzOcraghv
— Love Sports activities (@lovesportsng) August 7, 2022
