Jasmine Jones at the 2024 U.S. Olympic Trials | |||||||||||||||
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Born | (2001-11-30) November 30, 2001 (age 23) Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. | ||||||||||||||
Height | 5 ft 11 in (180 cm) | ||||||||||||||
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Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
Event | Hurdles | ||||||||||||||
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Personal best(s) | 60 m hurdles: 7.77 (Boston, 2024) 100 m hurdles: 12.64 (Eugene, 2024) 400 m hurdles 52.29 (Paris, 2024) | ||||||||||||||
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Jasmine Jones (born November 30, 2001) is an American track and field athlete. She represented the United States at the 2024 Summer Olympics in the 400 m hurdles, finishing fourth in the final. She was runner-up in the 60 metres hurdles at the 2024 USA Indoor Track and Field Championships.
Early life
Daughter of Henry Jones, an NFL All-Pro safety for the Buffalo Bills from 1991 to 2000, Jones attended Greater Atlanta Christian School and won a national age-group title, over 400m hurdles, in 2016. She was named the Georgia female track and field athlete of the year in 2019.
Career
Jones won gold in the 100m hurdles at the 2019 USATF U20 Outdoor Championships in Miramar, Florida in June 2023. She then won gold in the same event at the 2019 Pan American U20 Athletics Championships in San Jose, Costa Rica in July 2019.
Jones ran track at college for USC Trojans with whom she claimed an NCAA Outdoors title in the 4x100m relay in her first year of 2021. The following year, she was runner-up in the NCAA Outdoors 100 m hurdles in a personal best time of 12.66 seconds.
Jones finished as runner-up in the 60m hurdles at the US National Indoors Championships in New Mexico in February 2024, running a personal best time of 7.82 seconds. Competing at the NCAA Indoor Championships in Boston, Massachusetts, she won the 60 metres hurdles final in a personal best time of 7.77 seconds.
She won the 400 m hurdles at the NCAA Championships in Eugene, Oregon in June 2024 in 53.15 seconds. Later that month, she ran a personal best 52.77 seconds to finish third in the 400 metres hurdles at the US Olympic trials.
Jones placed fourth at the 2024 Olympic Games in the 400 m hurdles with a time of 52.29 seconds, which was a personal best as well as a US collegiate record.
In October 2024, it was announced that she had signed up for the inaugural season of the Michael Johnson founded Grand Slam Track.
References
- "Jasmine JONES - Athlete Profile". World Athletics. Retrieved February 17, 2024.
- "Jasmine Jones of Greater Atlanta Christian GA 1st Place Girls 15-16 400 Hurdles – USATF National Junior Olympic Track and Field Championships 2016". Runnerspace. August 1, 2016. Retrieved February 17, 2024.
- "Jasmine Jones Named Gatorade GA Girls Track and Field Athlete of the Year". GreaterAtlanticChristianSchool. June 21, 2019.
- "Boling wins sprint double at USA U20 Championships". World Athletics. June 24, 2019. Retrieved March 4, 2024.
- "Briana Williams captures Pan Am U20 100 m gold". radiojamaicanewsonline.com. July 19, 2019. Retrieved March 4, 2024.
- "JASMINE JONES CHAMPION WOMEN'S 4X100M RELAY – NCAA D1 OUTDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS 2021". DyeStat. June 13, 2021. Retrieved February 17, 2024.
- "JASMINE JONES 2ND PLACE WOMEN'S 100M HURDLES – NCAA D1 OUTDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS 2022". Runnerspace. June 12, 2022. Retrieved February 17, 2024.
- Harrington, Joe (February 17, 2024). "2024 USA INDOOR TRACK & FIELD CHAMPIONSHIPS". FloTrack.org. Retrieved February 17, 2024.
- Johnson, Weldon (February 16, 2024). "Grant Holloway Breaks 60 m Hurdle World Record, Tia Jones Equals It at USATF Indoors". Lets Run. Retrieved February 17, 2024.
- "Texas Tech and Arkansas win men's, women's titles at 2024 NCAA DI indoor track and field championships". ncaa. March 9, 2024. Retrieved March 10, 2024.
- "Williams, Ramsden and Neugebauer among winners at NCAA Indoor Championships". World Athletics. March 10, 2024. Retrieved March 10, 2024.
- Mulkeen, John (June 8, 2024). "Pryce, Long and Jones impress in sprints at NCAA Championships". World Athletics. Retrieved June 8, 2024.
- Henderson, Jason (July 1, 2024). "World 400 m hurdles record for Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone". Athletics Weekly. Retrieved July 1, 2024.
- Athletics, USC (August 8, 2024). "Cockrell Earns Silver Medal & Jones Takes 4th in Women's 400m Hurdles at Paris Olympics". USC Athletics. Retrieved August 11, 2024.
- "Grand Slam Track Adds Ten New Talents to Its Star-Studded Roster". FloTrack. Retrieved December 21, 2024.
External links
- Jasmine Jones at World Athletics
- Jasmine Jones at www.USATF.org
- Jasmine Jones at Team USA
- Jasmine Mari Jones at Olympics.com
- 2001 births
- 21st-century African-American sportswomen
- 21st-century American sportswomen
- African-American track and field athletes
- American female hurdlers
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2024 Summer Olympics
- Living people
- NCAA Division I Indoor Track and Field Championships winners
- NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships winners
- Track and field athletes from Atlanta
- Track and field athletes from Georgia (U.S. state)
- USC Trojans women's track and field athletes
- Olympic track and field athletes for the United States