Jasmine Jones
Jasmine Jones at the 2024 U.S. Olympic Trials | |||||||||||||||
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| Born | November 30, 2001 Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 5 ft 11 in (180 cm) | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
| Event | Hurdles | ||||||||||||||
| Achievements and titles | |||||||||||||||
| Personal best(s) | 60 m hurdles: 7.77 (Boston, 2024) 100 m hurdles: 12.64 (Eugene, 2024) 400 m hurdles 52.29 (Paris, 2024) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Jasmine Jones (born November 30, 2001) is an American track and field athlete.[1] 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 400 m hurdles, in 2016.[2] She was named the Georgia female track and field athlete of the year in 2019.[3]
Career
Jones won gold in the 100 m hurdles at the 2019 USATF U20 Outdoor Championships in Miramar, Florida in June 2023.[4] She then won gold in the same event at the 2019 Pan American U20 Athletics Championships in San Jose, Costa Rica in July 2019.[5]
Jones ran track at college for USC Trojans with whom she claimed an NCAA Outdoors title in the 4 × 100 m relay in her first year of 2021.[6] The following year, she was runner-up in the NCAA Outdoors 100 m hurdles in a personal best time of 12.66 seconds.[7]
Jones finished as runner-up in the 60 m hurdles at the US National Indoors Championships in New Mexico in February 2024, running a personal best time of 7.82 seconds.[8][9] 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.[10][11]
She won the 400 m hurdles at the NCAA Championships in Eugene, Oregon in June 2024 in 53.15 seconds.[12] Later that month, she ran a personal best 52.77 seconds to finish third in the 400 metres hurdles at the US Olympic trials.[13]
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.[14]
In October 2024, it was announced that she had signed up for the inaugural season of the Michael Johnson founded Grand Slam Track.[15] She was the slam winner at the 2025 Philadelphia Slam in the long hurdles category after finishing second in both the 400 metres hurdles and 400 metres races.[16]
Circuit performances
| Grand Slam Track results[17] | |||||
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| Slam | Race group | Event | Pl. | Time | Prize money |
| 2025 Philadelphia Slam | Long hurdles | 400 m hurdles | 2nd | 54.65 | US$100,000 |
| 400 m | 2nd | 52.73 | |||
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.
- ^ Collett, Jasmine (June 2, 2025). "MELISSA JEFFERSON-WOODEN RUNS HISTORIC 100M AT GRAND SLAM TRACK". Athletics Weekly. Retrieved June 2, 2025.
- ^ "Grand Slam Track Results". Grand Slam Track. Retrieved April 5, 2025.