Jazmin Sawyers
Jazmin Sawyers (born 21 May 1994) is a British track and field athlete and sports presenter who competes in the long jump, representing Great Britain and England. In 2023, she won her first major senior title at the 2023 European Indoor Championships.
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| Born | 21 May 1994 Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire, England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Education | University of Bristol | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.62 m (5 ft 4 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 60 kg (132 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Great Britain England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Athletics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event | Long jump | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coached by | Aston Moore | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Personal bests | 6.90 m (Chula Vista 2021) Indoors 7.00 m NR (Istanbul 2023) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Sawyers won the silver medal representing England in the long jump at the 2014 Commonwealth Games. She claimed silver and bronze representing Great Britain at the 2016 and 2022 European Championships respectively. Sawyers competed at both the 2016 Rio and the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, finishing eighth in the event on both occasions.
As a junior, She won bronze in the long jump at the 2012 World Junior Championships and silver at the 2013 European Junior Championships.Sawyers earned silver at the 2015 European Under-23 Championships. She is a double gold medalist, in long jump and sprint relay, from the 2011 Commonwealth Youth Games.
Sawyers is a five-time national champion. She is the British indoor record holder for the long jump with an outright best of 7.00 m.
She has also competed for Great Britain as a bobsledder and a heptathlete. Sawyer won a silver medal at the Winter Youth Olympic Games in Innsbuck in 2012 in bobsleigh.
Outside of sport, Sawyers is also a musician, and competed in the sixth series of The Voice UK.