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Geraldina "Dina" Rachel Asher-Smith, OLY (/ˈdiːnə ˈæʃɜː smɪθ/; born 4 December 1995) is a British sprinter. She is the fastest British woman on record and has been listed in the Powerlist as one of the UK's most influential people of African-Caribbean descent, most recently in the 2021 edition.[4][5] Asher-Smith won a gold medal in the 200 m, silver in the 100 m and another silver in the 4×100 m relay at the 2019 World Championships, breaking her own British records with further records which still stand. Aged 24, she was the first Briton to win three medals at a World Championships. In the relay event, she won medals in the 2016 Rio Olympics and 2020 Tokyo Olympics, and also in the 2013 and 2017 World Championships.

Dina Asher-Smith

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Asher-Smith at the 2022 World Championships in Eugene
Personal information
Full name	Geraldina Rachel Asher-Smith
Born	(1995-12-04) 4 December 1995 (age 26) Orpington, Kent, United Kingdom
Alma mater	King's College London
Height	1.64 m (5 ft 5 in)
Weight	58 kg (128 lb)
Sport
Country	Great Britain & N.I. England
Sport	Women's athletics
Event(s)	Sprint
Club	Blackheath and Bromley Harriers Athletic Club
Coached by	John Blackie
Achievements and titles
World finals	2013 4×100 m,  Bronze 2015 200 m, 5th 4×100 m, 4th 2017 200 m, 4th 4×100 m,  Silver 2019 100 m,  Silver 200 m,  Gold 4×100 m,  Silver 2022 100 m, 4th 200 m,  Bronze
Olympic finals	2016 Rio 200 m, 5th 4×100 m,  Bronze 2020 Tokyo 4×100 m,  Bronze
Personal best(s)	60 m: 7.08 NU23R (Prague 2015) 100 m: 10.83 NR (Doha 2019) 200 m: 21.88 NR (Doha 2019)
Medal record Women's athletics Representing  Great Britain Olympic Games 2016 Rio de Janeiro 4×100 m relay 2020 Tokyo 4×100 m relay World Championships 2019 Doha 200 m 2017 London 4×100 m relay 2019 Doha 100 m 2019 Doha 4×100 m relay 2013 Moscow 4×100 m relay 2022 Eugene 200 m Diamond League 2019 100 m 2018 100 m[1] 2019 200 m[2] 2021 100 m[3] 2016 200 m 2021 200 m[3] European Championships 2016 Amsterdam 200 m 2018 Berlin 100 m 2018 Berlin 200 m 2018 Berlin 4×100 m relay 2016 Amsterdam 4×100 m relay 2022 Munich 200 m European Indoor Championships 2015 Prague 60 m World Junior Championships 2014 Eugene 100 m European Junior Championships 2013 Rieti 200 m 2013 Rieti 4×100 m relay Representing Europe Continental Cup 2018 Ostrava 100 m 2018 Ostrava 4×100 m relay Representing  England Commonwealth Games 2018 Gold Coast 4×100 m relay 2018 Gold Coast 200 m Commonwealth Youth Games 2011 Douglas 200 m 2011 Douglas 4×100 m relay

Asher-Smith won the 2013 European Junior 200 m title and the 2014 World Junior 100 m title. In July 2015, she became the first British woman to run under 11 seconds for the 100 m.[6] She then broke Kathy Cook's 31-year-old British 200 m record when finishing fifth at the 2015 World Championships. In this distance, she placed fifth at the 2016 Olympics and fourth at the 2017 World Championships. Asher-Smith is also a four-time European individual champion and one-time 100 m Diamond League champion.

Early life and education

Asher-Smith was born on 4 December 1995 in Orpington, London. Her parents are Julie, who was born in London, and Winston, who was born in Jamaica but moved to England when he was a child.[7] She has Jamaican and Trinidadian ancestry.[8] She attended Perry Hall Primary School.[9] From 2008 to 2014, she attended Newstead Wood School in Orpington.[10] Asher-Smith achieved 9 A stars in her GCSEs.[11] In August 2014, Asher-Smith got 3 As for her A-Level exam results which allowed her entry into King's College London to study history. Upon receiving the results, she called it "the best morning" of her life.[12][13][14] She graduated with a 1st class BA in 2017.[15] Asher-Smith is a supporter of Manchester United F.C.[16]

Asher-Smith is coached by John Blackie. In 2009, she ran the 300 metres in 39.16 sec to set the current World age 13 best.[17] She has won the English Schools Championships 200m title as an Under 15 (2010), U17 (2011) and U20 (2013). She won the 2013 event in a time of 23.63 seconds into a strong headwind.[17]

Asher-Smith worked as a kit-bag carrier during the London 2012 Olympics, including on "Super Saturday".[18]

Junior competitions

At the 2012 World Junior Championships, Asher-Smith finished seventh in the 200m final in a then personal best time of 23.50 seconds. She said afterwards that "I am elated to have made the final and achieve a PB in the process, and I'm looking ahead to next year in Italy."

In 2013, she earned two gold medals at the European Junior Championships in Rieti, winning the 200m in 23.29, before joining Yasmin Miller, Steffi Wilson and Desiree Henry to win the 4 × 100m relay and break the UK junior record. The British squad originally finished fourth in the final but were promoted to the bronze medal after the disqualification of the French team. Asher-Smith was shortlisted for the 2013 BBC Young Sports Personality of the Year.[19]

At the 2014 World Junior Championships in Eugene, Asher-Smith won the 100 metres running 11.23 seconds.

Professional athletics career

Asher-Smith was part of the winning Great Britain team for the 4 × 100 m relay at the London Grand Prix meet[20] and was the youngest athlete selected for the Great Britain and Northern Ireland Squad for the 2013 World Championships in Moscow. Along with teammates Annabelle Lewis, Ashleigh Nelson and Hayley Jones, she won a bronze medal in the 4 × 100 m relay.

At the 2014 European Athletics Championships in Zurich, she qualified for the 200 m final but pulled up with a hamstring injury on the bend.

She took the silver medal at the 2015 European Athletics Indoor Championships for the 60 m. It was the first time in 30 years that a British female won a medal in the event. In doing so, Asher-Smith equalled Jeanette Kwakye's British record of 7.08 s and, being 19 years old, became the fastest ever teenager at 60 m.[21] She first broke the British 100 metres record with 11.02 secs on 24 May 2015 in Hengelo, before becoming the first British woman to run a legal time under 11 seconds, with 10.99 secs on 25 July 2015 at the London Anniversary Games. She then finished fifth in the 2015 IAAF World Athletic Championships in Beijing with a time of 22.07, a new British record.

At the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio, Asher-Smith finished fifth in the 200 metres, in 22.31 seconds, then won a bronze medal with her teammates Asha Philip, Desiree Henry and Daryll Neita in the 4 x 100 metres relay in a British record of 41.77 seconds.[22]

On 17 February 2017, Asher-Smith broke her foot in a training accident,[23] but still managed to secure fourth place in the women's 200m[24] and a silver medal as part of the Great Britain 4 × 100 m relay later that year at the 2017 IAAF World Athletics Championships in London.

In 2018, she went to Australia early to train and get used to the conditions prior to the Commonwealth Games scheduled to take place in Gold Coast, Queensland in that country. She qualified for the final, and came away with a Commonwealth bronze medal with a time off 22.29 seconds. England ladies, including Asher-Smith, qualified for the 4x100 m relay final, where they won gold in a time of 42.46 seconds, beating one of the favorites, Jamaica.[25] At the 2018 European Championships in Berlin, Asher-Smith won both the 100m[26] and 200m metres titles, improving her British records to 10.85 and 21.89 secs, becoming the first British woman in history to run below 22 seconds for 200 metres, and moving to 22nd on the 200 metres world all-time list (35th at 100m). She won a third gold medal in the 4 × 100 metres relay.[27] Asher-Smith was named women's European Athlete of the Year for her success in October.[28] She was later hailed by IAAF president Sebastian Coe as the next sprint sensation in athletics.[29]

Asher-Smith won the silver medal in the 100 m at the 2019 World Championships in a new British record of 10.83 seconds, finishing second behind Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce.[30] She was the first female British sprinter to win, over 100m or 200m, an individual medal in the world championships since Kathy Cook in 1983.[30] On 2 October, she became the World Champion in the 200m, setting a personal best and new British record of 21.88 seconds.[31][32]

Going into the 2021 season, Asher-Smith was a strong medal favourite for the short sprints at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Her season was off to a promising start in May when she won the women's 100m final at the Gateshead Diamond League against a world class field, besting athletes such as Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, Blessing Okagbare, Marie-Josée Ta Lou and Sha'Carri Richardson.[33] She followed this up in late June when she won the 100m final at the 2021 British Athletics Championships, in a time of 10.97 seconds. The clock had originally reported 10.71 seconds, which would have been a substantial national record, however this was corrected a few minutes later.[34] She came into the Olympics having gained selection in the 100m, 200m and 4 x 100 metres relay, however failed to qualify for the 100m final after placing third in her semifinal in a time of 11.05 seconds, which was not enough to gain a fastest non-automatic qualifying spot. Subsequently, she revealed in an emotional interview that she had actually sustained a hamstring injury during the finals of the British championships, and that she would be pulling out of the 200 m.[35] Nevertheless, she managed to return to contribute to the 4 x 100 metres relay, aiding Great Britain in setting a new national record of 41.55 seconds in their heat, followed by a bronze medal in the final behind Jamaica and the United States. She later bounced back to end her 2021 campaign with season's bests of 10.87[36] seconds and 22.04 seconds[37] towards the end of the Diamond League circuit, the 200m in Brussels and 100m at the final in Zurich.

Other activities

Asher-Smith has modelled for Louis Vuitton, Valentino and Off-White, and in 2019 had a Barbie created in her likeness.[18] The same year, she made a cameo appearance in the music video for the single "Black" by Dave.[18]

In 2021, she was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Kent.[18]

Major competitive record

Personal bests

Event	Time (sec)	Notes	Wind	Venue	Date
100 metres	10.83	NR	+0.1 m/s	Doha, Qatar	29 September 2019
200 metres	21.88	NR	+0.9 m/s	Doha, Qatar	2 October 2019
300 metres	36.41			London, UK	21 April 2022
4 × 100 m relay	41.55	NR		Tokyo, Japan	5 August 2021
100 metres U23	10.99	NU23R	+0.1 m/s	London, United Kingdom	25 July 2015
100 metres U20	11.14	NU20R	+1.5 m/s	Mannheim, Germany	5 July 2014
200 metres U23	22.07	NU23R	+0.2 m/s	Beijing, China	28 August 2015
60 metres indoor U23	7.08 i	NU23B		Prague, Czech Republic	8 March 2015
200 metres indoor U20	23.15 i	AU20R		Sheffield, United Kingdom	2 March 2014

International competition

Representing  Great Britain /  England

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Result	Notes
2011	Commonwealth Youth Games	Douglas, Isle of Man	1st	200 m	24.30
			1st	4 × 100 m relay	46.19	[38]
2012	World Junior Championships	Barcelona, Spain	7th	200 m	23.50
			DNF	4 × 100 m relay	Pass failed
2013	European Junior Championships	Rieti, Italy	1st	200 m	23.29	[39]
			1st	4 × 100 m relay	43.81	NJR
	World Championships	Moscow, Russia	3rd	4 × 100 m relay	42.87
2014	World Junior Championships	Eugene, OR, United States	1st	100 m	11.23	[40]
	European Championships	Zürich, Switzerland	DNF	200 m	Injury	[41]
2015	European Indoor Championships	Prague, Czech Republic	2nd	60 m	7.08	NR [42]
	World Championships	Beijing, China	5th	200 m	22.07	NR
			4th	4 × 100 m relay	42.10	NR
2016	World Indoor Championships	Portland, OR, United States	6th (semis)	60 m	7.11	DNS[n 1]
	European Championships	Amsterdam, Netherlands	1st	200 m	22.37
			2nd	4 × 100 m relay	42.45
	Olympic Games	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	5th	200 m	22.31	[43]
			3rd	4 × 100 m relay	41.77	NR
2017	World Championships	London, United Kingdom	4th	200 m	22.22
			2nd	4 × 100 m relay	42.12
2018	Commonwealth Games	Gold Coast, Australia	3rd	200 m	22.29
			1st	4 × 100 m relay	42.46
	European Championships	Berlin, Germany	1st	100 m	10.85	WL NR
			1st	200 m	21.89	WL NR
			1st	4 × 100 m relay	41.88	WL
	Continental Cup	Ostrava, Czech Republic	2nd	100 m	11.16	[n 2]
			2nd	4 × 100 m relay	42.55
2019	World Championships	Doha, Qatar	2nd	100 m	10.83	NR
			1st	200 m	21.88	NR
			2nd	4 × 100 m relay	41.85
2021	Olympic Games	Tokyo, Japan	10th (sf)	100 m	11.05
			3rd	4 × 100 m relay	41.88
2022	World Championships	Eugene, OR, United States	4th	100 m	10.83	=NR
			3rd	200 m	22.02
			6th	4 × 100 m relay	42.75
	European Championships	Munich, Germany	8th	100 m	16.03
			2nd	200 m	22.43
			–	4 × 100 m relay	DNF

Circuit wins and titles

• Diamond League champion 100 m: 2019
  • 2016 (1): Stockholm Bauhaus-Galan (200m)
  • 2018 (1): Stockholm (100m)
  • 2019 (3): Brussels Memorial Van Damme (100m), Doha Diamond League (200m), Stockholm (200m)
  • 2021 (2): Gateshead British Grand Prix (100m), Rome Golden Gala in Florence (200m, MR)
  • 2022 (3): Birmingham Diamond League (100m & 4x100m relay), Stockholm (200m)

National titles

• British Athletics Championships
  • 100 m: (4) 2015, 2018, 2019, 2021
  • 200 m: (1) 2016
• British Indoor Athletics Championships
  • 60 m: (1) 2015
  • 200 m: (1) 2014

See also

• 100 metres
• 100 metres at the World Athletics Championships
• 200 metres
• 200 metres at the World Athletics Championships
• List of World Championships in Athletics medalists (women)
• 2018 in 100 metres
• 2020/21 in 60 metres

Notes

References

External links

• Dina Asher-Smith at World Athletics
• Dina Asher-Smith at ThePowerOf10.info
• Dina Asher-Smith at Diamond League
• Dina Asher-Smith at Olympics.com
• Dina Asher-Smith at Olympedia
• Dina Asher-Smith at the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games

На других языках

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[de] Dina Asher-Smith

Geraldina „Dina“ Rachel Asher-Smith (* 4. Dezember 1995 in Orpington (London)) ist eine britische Sprinterin. Sie hält die britischen Rekorde über 100 und 200 Meter.

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- [en] Dina Asher-Smith

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[es] Dina Asher-Smith

Geraldina Rachel Asher-Smith –conocida como Dina Asher-Smith– (Orpington, 4 de diciembre de 1995) es una deportista británica que compite en atletismo, especialista en las carreras de velocidad y de relevos.[1]

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[fr] Dina Asher-Smith

Geraldina « Dina » Asher-Smith, née le 4 décembre 1995 à Orpington (Grand Londres), est une athlète britannique spécialiste du sprint, championne du monde du 200 m en 2019 à Doha et quadruple championne d'Europe, dont deux fois sur 200 m, en 2016 et en 2018. Elle a également décroché deux médailles de bronze olympiques avec le relais 4 x 100 m à Rio en 2016 et à Tokyo en 2021.

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[it] Dina Asher-Smith

Geraldina Rachel Asher-Smith, detta Dina (Orpington, 4 dicembre 1995), è una velocista britannica, campionessa mondiale dei 200 metri piani a Doha 2019.

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[ru] Эшер-Смит, Дина

Дина Эшер-Смит (англ. Dina Asher-Smith; род. 4 декабря 1995 года) — британская легкоатлетка, которая специализируется в беге на короткие дистанции, двукратный бронзовый призёр Олимпийских игр в эстафете 4×100 м (2016 и 2020), чемпионка мира 2019 года на дистанции 200 метров, четырёхкратная чемпионка Европы. Рекордсменка Великобритании на дистанциях 100 метров (10,83) и 200 метров (21,88).

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