Jasmine Jones
American athlete (born 2001)
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Jasmine Mari Jones[1] (born November 30, 2001) is an American track and field athlete.[2] She was the silver medalist in the 400 m hurdles at the 2025 World Championships and competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics, finishing fourth in the final.
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| Full name | Jasmine Mari Jones[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 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 52.08 (Tokyo, 2025) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Jones previously won the gold medal at the 2019 Pan American U20 Championships in the 100 m hurdles and was runner-up in the 60 m 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, and Joanna Cox Jones, an NCAA D1 sprinter, Jones attended Greater Atlanta Christian School and won a national age-group title, over 400 m hurdles, in 2016.[3] She was named the Georgia female track and field athlete of the year in 2019.[4]
Career
Early career
Jones won gold in the 100 m hurdles at the 2019 USATF U20 Outdoor Championships in Miramar, Florida in June.[5] She then won gold in the same event at the 2019 Pan American U20 Athletics Championships in San Jose, Costa Rica in July 2019.[6]
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.[7] The following year, she was runner-up in the NCAA Outdoors 100 m hurdles in a personal best time of 12.66 seconds.[8]
2024: Olympic debut
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.[9][10] 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.[11][12]
She won the 400 m hurdles at the NCAA Championships in Eugene, Oregon in June 2024 in 53.15 seconds.[13] Later that month, she ran a personal best 52.77 seconds to finish third in the 400 metres hurdles at the US Olympic trials.[14]
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.[15]
2025: World Championships silver medalist
Announced for the inaugural season of the Michael Johnson founded Grand Slam Track,[16] 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.[17] She ran 53.18 seconds to finish second to Femke Bol in the 400 metres hurdles at the 2025 London Athletics Meet, part of the 2025 Diamond League, on July 19.[18]
She placed third in the final of the 400 metres hurdles at the 2025 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships.[19] She also placed third in the 400 metres hurdles on August 16 in the Diamond League at the 2025 Kamila Skolimowska Memorial, in Poland.[20]
Jones was selected for the American team for the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan, winning the silver medal in the 400 metres hurdles, running a personal best time of 52.08 seconds.[21][22]
Competition results
International championships
| Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Event | Result |
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| 2019 | Pan American U20 Championships | San José, Costa Rica | 1st | 100 m hurdles | 13.20 |
| 2024 | Olympic Games | Paris, France | 4th | 400 m hurdles | 52.29 |
| 2025 | World Championships | Tokyo, Japan | 2nd | 400 m hurdles | 52.08 |
National championships
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Circuit performances
| Grand Slam Track results[23] | |||||
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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 | |||
