HomeNEWSAmusan wins, Brume shines at Gyulai Istvan women's 100mh, long jump events

Amusan wins, Brume shines at Gyulai Istvan women’s 100mh, long jump events

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World and Commonwealth Games champion Tobi Amusan on Tuesday raced to a second consecutive victory in two days, clocking 12.35secs (-0.5) in the women’s 100m hurdles at the Gyulai István Memorial meet in Hungary.

With just over a month until the World Athletics Championships in Budapest, the Nigerian beat the United States of America duo of Nia Ali who came in 2nd in 12.41secs and Lay-Lay Johnson to 3rd in 12.50secs.

Recall at Sunday’s Diamond League meeting in Silesia, the world record-holder set a season-best of 12.34 to pip USA’s Kendra Harrison and Nia Ali.

The Gyulai Istvan Memorial is the penultimate Gold meeting in this season’s World Athletics Continental Tour Gold.

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Meanwhile, world silver medallist Ese Brume put up a decent jumping series at Gyulai István Memorial, finishing 2nd in women’s Long Jump with a mark of 6.69m. Serbia’s Milica Gardašević won the event with 6.80m.

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