The Olympic champion clocks 12.09 to finish Amusan’s four-year reign atop the world record, minutes after Alison dos Santos had damaged Karsten Warholm’s 400m hurdles world report on the similar assembly.
Masai Russell produced one of many standout moments of a rare evening at Weltklasse Zürich, breaking Tobi Amusan’s 100m hurdles world report with a time of 12.09.
The American, 26, had been closing in on the report all season, having already run 12.14 – the second-fastest time in historical past – in Xiamen again in Might. With the wind studying a lifeless calm 0.0m/sec, she shaved three hundredths off the 12.12 Amusan had held since her semi-final victory on the 2022 World Championships in Eugene.
Amusan herself took second, operating a season’s finest 12.23, with European champion Nadine Visser third in a season’s finest 12.34. House favorite Ditaji Kambundji, the reigning world champion, was seventh in 12.82 in entrance of her personal crowd.
Danielle Williams was fourth in 12.56, Ackera Nugent fifth in 12.69, Pia Skrzyszowska sixth in 12.70, Annik Kälin eighth in 12.87 and Alaysha Johnson effectively down the sphere in 15.15.
Russell’s time additionally stands as a Diamond League report and a gathering report, effectively contained in the 12.29 Amusan ran in Zurich in 2022.
It capped an evening for the report books at Letzigrund, coming shortly after Alison dos Santos had damaged Karsten Warholm’s 400m hurdles world report in equally gorgeous vogue.
Talking after a equally speedy run in Xiamen again in Might, Russell mentioned she had no doubts the report would finally be hers. „I have been saying all yr that I’ll break the world report,“ she mentioned on the time. „I do not know when it will come, however I preserve getting nearer and nearer.“
