OM Jazmin Sawyers jumps her way to gold with British record in Istanbul

OM Jazmin Sawyers jumps her way to gold with British record in Istanbul

OM Jazmin Sawyers has jumped her way to gold with a British indoor record of 7.00m, claiming the European Indoor long-jump title!  

The European Athletics Indoor Championships are the oldest major international indoor championships in the world. Officially inaugurated in 1970, but previously held four times under the name of European Indoor Games (1966-69). More than 600 athletes from 51 European countries competed in the refurbished Ataköy Arena in Istanbul between 2-5 March 2023. 

In the first round, Jazmin leapt 6.70m followed by 6.76m in the fourth, but it was her jump on the final night of the four-day-event where she landed the incredible 7.00m jump – a personal best and unmatched anywhere in the world this season! 

In 2012, Jazmin was part of Britain’s first ever Youth Winter Olympic medal-winning team with silver in Innsbruck and carried the torch on the Olympic relay later that year. Jazmin has competed at two Summer Olympics, Rio and Tokyo, finishing eighth at both. She has a Law degree from the University of Bristol and competed on ITV's 'The Voice' in 2017 where Will.i.am chose to coach her. 

So far this year, Jazmin has captained the UK and NI team at the European Indoor Championships and, claimed victory at the UK Athletics Indoor Championships last month, winning the British indoor long jump title with a distance of 6.73m. This followed on from the bronze she won at the European Championships in Munich last summer, ending a six-year wait for an international medal, having won European silver in 2016. 

Jazmin has plenty of long term goals, one being targeting a historic Olympic medal, aiming to become the first British female athlete to reach the Olympic podium in long jump since Sue Hearnshaw took bronze in 1984. 

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