Masai Russell breaks 100m hurdles world record, silences doubters whom she bookmarked
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Key Points:
- American hurdler Masai Russell set a new 100m hurdles world record with a time of 12.09 seconds at the Diamond League meet in Zurich, breaking Nigerian Tobi Amusan's 2022 record by three hundredths of a second.
- Russell, who won Olympic gold in the event, became the first woman since Yordanka Donkova in 1988 to hold both the Olympic title and world record in the 100m hurdles.
- The record was set with zero wind assistance, making it particularly notable, and Russell expressed confidence in potentially running a sub-12 second race in the future.
- Nigerian Tobi Amusan, the previous world record holder, finished second in the Zurich race with a time of 12.23 seconds.
- This world record was the second to be set within 40 minutes at the Zurich meet, following Brazilian Alison dos Santos' new men's 400m hurdles record.
