Nigeria’s Tobi Amusan announced herself as the woman to beat in the women’s 100 metres hurdles this season with a commanding performance at the Rabat Diamond League on Sunday, breaking her own meeting record and claiming her first victory on the circuit in 2026. 

The 29-year-old world record holder stormed to the win in 12.28 seconds, equalling her season’s best and leaving a high-class field trailing in her wake at the Meeting International Mohammed VI in Morocco.

Amusan took control of the race early, reacting sharply off the gun from lane four and matching Devynne Charlton of the Bahamas over the opening hurdles before edging clear by the third barrier. From that point, there was no catching her. She accelerated through the middle phase and maintained her composure all the way to the line, finishing comfortably clear of Charlton, who took second in 12.40 seconds, while the Netherlands’ Nadine Visser rounded out the podium in a season’s best of 12.47 seconds. The winning time also obliterated the previous meeting record of 12.45 seconds a mark that Amusan herself had set at the same venue in 2025.

The victory represents a significant step forward in what has been a building campaign for Amusan. She had opened her Diamond League season with a third-place finish before improving to second at the Xiamen leg in China the previous week, clocking the same 12.28 seconds behind Masai Russell.

The Rabat triumph, coming exactly a week later, completes a rapid ascent back to the top of the podium and underlines the trajectory of a competitor who appears to be reaching peak condition as the major championships draw closer. Prior to the Diamond League season, Amusan had won gold in the 100m hurdles at the 2026 African Championships in Accra, Ghana Nigeria’s first gold of that competition adding further evidence of her readiness to dominate at the highest level.

With her form sharpening race by race, Amusan now turns her attention to the Rome Diamond League on June 4, the next stop on the circuit. The Commonwealth Games title defence also looms large on her horizon, and if Sunday’s display in Rabat is anything to go by, she will arrive at each of those occasions as the athlete everyone else needs to beat.