| Jasmine Jones | |
| Nationality: | American |
| Birth Date: | 30 November 2001 |
| Birth Place: | Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. |
| Height: | 5' 11" |
| Sport: | Athletics |
| Event: | Hurdles |
| Pb: | 60 m hurdles: 7.77 (Boston, 2024) 100 m hurdles: 12.64 (Eugene, 2024) 400 m hurdles 52.29 (Paris, 2024) |
Jasmine Jones (born November 30, 2001) is an American track and field athlete. She was runner-up in the 60 metres hurdles at the 2024 USA Indoor Track and Field Championships. She finished third in the US Olympic trials in 2024 over 400 metres hurdles.[1] She also came in fourth in the finals of the 400 m hurdles in Paris Olympic with a personal best of 52.29s, just behind Netherlands' Femke Bol.
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.[2] She was named the Georgia female track and field athlete of the year in 2019.[3]
Jones won gold in the 100m hurdles at the 2019 USATF U20 Outdoor Championships in Miramar, Florida in June 2023.[4] She then won gold 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 4x100m 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 60m 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]