| Tasa Jiya | |
| Nationality: | Dutch |
| Sport: | Track and Field |
| Event: | 60 m, 100 m, 200 m |
| Birth Date: | 16 September 1997 |
| Pb: | 60 m: 7.25 (2024) 100 m: 11.22 (2024) 200 m: 22.62 (2024) |
Tasa Jiya (in Dutch; Flemish ˈtaːaː ˈɟijaː/; born 16 September 1997) is a Dutch track and field athlete who competes as a sprinter. In 2023, she became the Dutch national champion over 200 metres. She won a bronze medal in the women's 4 x 100 metres relay at the 2024 European Athletics Championships.[1]
As a junior athlete, Jiya won nine national youth titles and in 2013 won gold in the 200 meters at the European Youth Olympic Festival. She had a career break after being an unused reserve for the Dutch relay team at the 2016 Olympic Games.[2]
In 2021, after returning to athletics, Jiya ran a new personal best time in the 100 metres of 11.58 seconds, and a new personal best time of 23.19 seconds in the 200 meters at a gala in Grootebroek.[3] In 2023, she became the Dutch national champion over 200 metres, in a field which included Femke Bol.[4] She won in a new personal best time of 22.77 seconds.[5]
She was selected for the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest in August 2023, where she qualified for the semi finals of the 200 metres where she ran a new personal best of 22.67 seconds.[6] [7]
She ran as part of the Dutch 4x100m relay team which qualified for the 2024 Paris Olympics at the 2024 World Relays Championships in Nassau, Bahamas.[8] The following month she finished sixth in the 200m at the 2024 BAUHAUS-galan Diamond League event in Stockholm.[9]
Competing over 200 metres at the 2024 European Championships in Rome in June 2024, she finished fifth in the final having run 22.90 seconds.[10] Later on in the championships, she won a bronze medal running the anchor leg for the Dutch team in the 4 x 100 metres relay.[11] [12]
In June 2024, she won the Dutch national 200 meters title in Hengelo in a personal best 22.62 seconds.[13]
She gave birth to a daughter, Amáru, in 2018.[14]
Information from her World Athletics profile unless otherwise noted.
| Type | Event | Time (s) | Venue | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indoor | 60 metres | 7.25 | Apeldoorn, Netherlands | 27 January 2024 |
| 10 February 2024 | ||||
| Outdoor | 100 metres | 11.22 | Hengelo, Netherlands | 29 June 2024 |
| 200 metres | 22.62 | Hengelo, Netherlands | 30 June 2024 |
| 2014 | World Junior Championships | Eugene, United States | 8th (h) | relay | 45.29 | |
| 2015 | European Junior Championships | Eskilstuna, Sweden | 4th (sf) | 100 m | 11.94 | |
| 6th | 200 m | 23.69 | ||||
| – (f) | relay | |||||
| 2016 | World Junior Championships | Bydgoszcz, Poland | 3rd (sf) | 23.72 | ||
| – (h) | relay | |||||
| 2023 | European Games | Chorzów, Poland | 1st | 4 x 100 m relay | 42.61 | |
| European Team Championships First Division | ||||||
| World Championships | Budapest, Hungary | 14th (sf) | 200 m | 22.67 | ||
| – (f) | relay | |||||
| 2024 | World Relays | Nassau, Bahamas | 6th | 4 × 100 m relay | 43.07 | |
| European Championships | Rome, Italy | 5th | 200 m | 22.90 | ||
| 3rd | 4 × 100 m relay | 42.46 |