By Victor Kanayo
World record holder Tobi Amusan on Thursday lost her title defence at the 2023 World Athletics Championship in Budapest, Hungary.
Amusan finished 6th with a time of 12.62 in the final of the 100m hurdles.
Prior to the Championship, Amusan had been provisionally suspended by AIU for missing three consecutive tests.
The suspension was lifted few days to the championship.
El Bakkali
Earlier, Olympic champion Soufiane El Bakkali won a second consecutive world championship title in the men’s 3,000 metres steeplechase.
Moroccan El Bakkali surprised 22-year-old Lamecha Girma who broke the 19-year-old world record 2 months ago.
It is the fourth Bakkali medal win in a row. At 27, he won silver in London in 2017, then bronze in Doha in 2019 and finally gold in Eugene (Oregon) USA.
In 8 min 03 sec 53, he had fought in the last lap to beat Ethiopian Girma (8:05.44), who had broken the world record for the specialty in Paris at the beginning of June (7:52.12).
Lamecha Girma finished second just like at the World Championships in Doha, Eugene and the Olympic Games.
Kenya’s Abraham Kibiwot won bronze in 8:11:98.
