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.

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.

Jazmin Sawyers was born in Stoke-on-Trent to a Jamaican father and an English mother, who later became the Chief Constable of Staffordshire.

[8] At the 2007 English Schools Championships she was the high jump runner-up with a personal best of 1.70 m (5 ft 6+3⁄4 in), finishing behind Katarina Johnson-Thompson.

[9] The following year, Sawyers won the English Schools' titles in the long jump and the pentathlon – a feat she repeated in 2009.

She cleared six metres in the long jump for the first time that year and surpassed that mark to win the gold in the event at the Commonwealth Youth Games.

She opted to focus on the long jump instead, as this combined well with the explosive strength training she had undertaken for the winter sport.

[5] This proved to be a successful switch as she set a personal best and world-leading junior mark of 6.64 m (21 ft 9+1⁄4 in) to place third at the British Championships.

[11] Sawyers was the bronze medallist at the World Junior Championships – her distance of 6.67 m (21 ft 10+1⁄2 in) was beaten only by the wind-assisted jumps of British rival Katerina Johnson-Thompson and Germany's Lena Malkus.

[14] At the end of the track and field season, Sawyers won her first meet abroad at the Gugl Games in Linz, Austria.

Sawyers was again second best to Johnson-Thompson at the outdoor National Championships but both gained selection for the long jump for England at the 2014 Commonwealth Games.

[23] On 25 April 2024, Sawyers announced she had undergone surgery after rupturing the Achilles on her take-off leg and would subsequently miss the Paris 2024 Olympics.

Sawyers lands after her jump at the 2016 European Athletics Championships in Amsterdam