Nigeria’s Tobi Amusan delivered one of the performances of her season on Sunday, completing a dominant double at the Paris Diamond League meeting to claim victory in the women’s 100 metres hurdles final at Stade Charléty adding another Diamond League triumph to what is shaping up as a remarkable return to form for the world record holder.

Amusan had already announced her intentions emphatically in the preliminary heat, winning it comfortably in 12.39 seconds under legal wind conditions of +0.4m/s.

The Dutch hurdler Nadine Visser came second in a season’s best of 12.44 seconds, while Jamaican national champion, Demisha Roswell took third in 12.46 seconds. The Nigerian appeared well within herself throughout, doing just enough to set up a meeting with a high-quality final field.

When it mattered, she turned it up. Exploding from lane four with a sharp reaction time of 0.135 seconds and a legal tailwind of +0.7m/s at her back, Amusan blazed through a technically polished race to win in 12.28 seconds equalling her season’s best and matching the time she had recorded at the Xiamen and Rabat Diamond League meetings earlier this year.

American Grace Stark pushed hardest of all to finish second in 12.38, with compatriot Alaysha Johnson third in 12.39, but there was ultimately no catching the Nigerian. Visser came fourth in 12.41 as the entire top four finished inside a high-quality final.

The victory carries added significance beyond the result itself. Coming weeks before the 2026 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, where Amusan will defend her title,

Sunday’s performance provided the clearest signal yet that she has fully recaptured the form that made her one of athletics’ most feared competitors. After navigating what she has described as a difficult spell across the previous couple of seasons, the 29-year-old from Ijebu Ode has looked sharper, more rhythmical and more dangerous with each successive outing in 2026.

Amusan holds the world record in the event at 12.12 seconds, set during the 2022 World Championships in Eugene, Oregon a mark that has stood for four years and remains the benchmark of the discipline. With her times this season trending consistently close to the 12.28 mark, and a favourable wind to her back in Paris, the question of whether she can threaten that record before the year is out is one that will only grow louder as the season progresses.