Rukia Nusra breaks own 60mH national record

National hurdles record holder Rukia Nusra continues to break new ground in her race to qualify for this year's World Championships as she lowered her 60mH national record to 8.38 seconds. 

Nusra had set the previous record of 8.48 seconds in January 2025.

She now holds both the 100mH and 60mH national records, the former, a 13.67 seconds mark.

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She achieved the new mark during the Mid-American (MAC) Indoor Championships 2025 where she emerged as the winner of the event.

The championships took place in Bowen Field House, Ypsilanti, Michigan,USA.

Since starting her nursing studies at the University of Akron in the USA, where she is a student-athlete, she has set the lofty target of achieving some ambitious personal bests of 12.90 seconds outdoors and 8.20 seconds indoors ahead of the Tokyo Championships.

The qualifying standard for the women's 100mH has been set at 12.73 seconds. 

Should she qualify, this will be her second global games as a senior athlete.

Her first major assignment was representing Kenya at the 2017 World U18 Championships in Nairobi where she failed to go past the first round in the 100mH. 

At 19, she became the youngest member of Team Kenya at the 2021 World Relay Championships in Silesia, Poland.

She competed in the shuttle relay team alongside Priscilla Tabunda, Vanic Kerubo, Wiseman Were, and Michael Musyoka, settling for bronze.

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Nusra, who won her maiden national 100mH title in 2023 in a Kenyan record 13.87 seconds at the Nyayo National Stadium, broke the record again with a time of 13.70 at the Athletics Kenya Track and Field Meeting on 26 January 2024 at the same venue. On 14 June, she lowered it further to the current mark (13.67 seconds). 

"Hurdles require speed and technique. I want to show that even in Kenya, people can excel in hurdles,” she said in a past interview.