Nigeria’s Tobi Amusan recorded her fastest 100m time of the season, clocking 11.18 seconds (1.8m/s) at the Racers Grand Prix in Kingston, Jamaica — a World Athletics Continental Tour Silver event — held in the early hours of Sunday.
Running in lane two for the Racers Track Club, Amusan finished fourth in a highly competitive women’s 100m final, which saw all top four finishers setting season-best times.
The first two finishers also met the qualifying standard for the 2025 World Championships in Tokyo.
With a reaction time of 0.198s, Amusan crossed the line behind three Jamaicans and an American, showing clear progress from her earlier performances this season.
Her 11.18s run improved on her previous best of 11.28s set in March at the Velocity Fest, trimming a tenth of a second.
This was only her second 100m flat race of the season and her third in 14 months, as she continues to explore the sprinting event alongside her specialty, the 100m hurdles. Her training since moving to Jamaica in November 2024 to join Glen Mills’ Racers Track Club is beginning to yield results, with the switch from the U.S. aimed at sharpening her sprinting technique to complement her hurdling.
The race was won by Jamaica’s Tina Clayton, who blazed to a 10.98s finish from lane three with a reaction time of 0.179s.
“I was looking for a good performance,” Clayton said. “The last time I was this nervous, I ran 10.9, so I knew it would be a good one.” Her focus now, she added, is on maintaining consistency through the season.
Jacious Sears of the United States followed closely with an 11.04s finish from lane four, also meeting the World Championship qualifying mark. Sears recorded the fastest reaction time of the race at 0.158s.
Jamaica’s Alana Garren Reid, born in 2005, took third place in 11.16s from lane one, narrowly ahead of Amusan. Tia Clayton, twin sister of the winner, placed fifth with 11.24s from lane five.
Amusan began her sprint season with 11.41s in the Velocity Fest heats before improving to 11.28s in the final. She later ran 11.26s at the Tom Jones Memorial in Gainesville, Florida. Her 11.18s in Kingston is her fastest time since her personal best of 11.10s set in Florida in 2023.
Olympic silver medallist Kishane Thompson stormed to victory in 9.88s (0.0m/s), ahead of Oblique Seville’s season-best 9.97s for 100m men’s hurdles while South Africans Gift Leotlela (10.04) and Bayanda Walaza (10.06) finished third and fourth.
For Men’s 110m Hurdles, Rasheed Broadbell edged out American Trey Cunningham in a close race, winning 13.06 to 13.08 (0.7m/s), marking his third win over Cunningham in five meetings.
In Women’s 100m Hurdles, USA’s Alia Armstrong equaled the meet record with 12.54s (1.1m/s), ahead of Bahamian Devynne Charlton’s season-best 12.65s.
Also for Women’s 200m, World champion Shericka Jackson clocked a season-best 22.53s (1.0m/s) to win her event.
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Finally for Men’s 200m, Jamaican champion Bryan Levell lit up the track with a blistering 19.79s win in one of the night’s most anticipated races.
