Tyron Akins (born 6 January 1986) is a US-born hurdler competing internationally for Nigeria. He switched allegiance from his country of birth to Nigeria in 2014 2014 CWG profile and has since won several medals on the continental level.
His personal bests are 13.25 seconds in the 110 metres hurdles (+0.4, Des Moines 2008) and 7.60 seconds in the 60 metres hurdles (Liévin 2009).
Competition record Representing the 2005Pan American Junior ChampionshipsWindsor, Canada2nd110 m hurdles14.00Representing 2014Commonwealth GamesGlasgow, United Kingdom9th (sf)110 m hurdles13.75African ChampionshipsMarrakesh, Morocco1st110 m hurdles13.57Continental CupMarrakesh, Morocco5th110 m hurdles13.48Representing Africa2015African GamesBrazzaville, Republic of the Congo3rd110 m hurdles13.542016African ChampionshipsDurban, South Africa2nd110 m hurdles13.74
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