31 Facts About Jazmin Sawyers

Jazmin Sawyers was born on 21 May 1994 and is a British track and field athlete and sports presenter who competes in the long jump, representing Great Britain and England.

Jazmin Sawyers claimed silver and bronze representing Great Britain at the 2016 and 2022 European Championships respectively.

Jazmin Sawyers competed at both the 2016 Rio and the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, finishing eighth in the event on both occasions.

Jazmin Sawyers is a double gold medalist, in long jump and sprint relay, from the 2011 Commonwealth Youth Games.

Jazmin Sawyers has competed for Great Britain as a bobsledder and a heptathlete.

Outside of sport, Jazmin Sawyers is a musician, and competed in the sixth series of The Voice UK.

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

Jazmin Sawyers was initially a child gymnast, participating in the sport from the age of four.

Jazmin Sawyers studied for a degree in law at Bristol University, graduating with a 2:1.

Jazmin Sawyers 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.

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

Jazmin Sawyers' performance was the second best wind-legal jump by a junior woman that year.

Jazmin Sawyers gained a place at the University of Sheffield and began training there as well with local coach Toni Minichiello.

Jazmin Sawyers continued her focus on the long jump into the 2013 season.

Jazmin Sawyers was runner-up at the BUCS University Championships indoor and outdoors.

Jazmin Sawyers repeated that placing at her two major events that year, taking silver behind Shara Proctor at the UK Championships then another silver at the European Junior Championships behind Malaika Mihambo of Germany.

Jazmin Sawyers changed university to study law and criminology at Bristol University.

Jazmin Sawyers based her training near the University of Bath working with coach and former long jumper Alan Lerwill.

Jazmin 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.

Jazmin Sawyers became a triple British champion when winning the long jump event at the 2020 outdoor British Championships with a jump of 6.69 metres.

Jazmin Sawyers had previously won the event back in 2016.

At the 2020 Summer Olympics, held in Tokyo in 2021, Jazmin Sawyers finished 8th in the final with a distance of 6.80 metres.

Jazmin Sawyers ended in ninth place with a distance of 6.62.

At the Munich European Championships that year, Jazmin Sawyers was in fourth position after five attempts.

Ukraine's Maryna Bekh-Romanchuk was in third with 6.76 until Jazmin Sawyers snatched bronze with 6.80 in the last round, reversing the outcome of 2018 when Bekh-Romanchuk displaced Jazmin Sawyers from the podium with her last jump of the competition.

In March 2023, Jazmin Sawyers captained Great Britain at the European Indoor Championships held in Istanbul.

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

Jazmin Sawyers was one of the team of BBC commentators at the Olympic games for the Athletics.

In 2011, Jazmin Sawyers was approached by the British Bobsleigh and Skeleton Association to train for the inaugural Youth Winter Olympics.

Jazmin Sawyers was an Ambassador for Right To Play, the world's leading sport for development charity.

Jazmin Sawyers visited Right To Play's education programme in Tanzania in 2018.