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Geraldina Rachel Asher-Smith (born 4 December 1995) is a British sprinter internationally active since 2011. In 2019 she was the first British woman to win a World title in a sprint event.
The fastest British woman on record, she won a gold medal in the 200 metres, silver in the 100 metres and another silver in the 4×100 m relay at the 2019 World Championships, breaking her own British records with further records which still stand. Aged 24, Asher-Smith was the first Briton to win three medals at a World Championships. She earned a bronze in the 200 m at the 2022 World Championships. As part of 4×100 m relay teams, she won bronze medals at the 2016 Rio Olympics and the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, and the silver medal at the 2024 Paris Olympics as well as medals at the 2013, 2017 and 2019 World Championships. Her highest Olympic finish individually was fourth in the 200 metres at the 2024 Games, missing a medal by two-hundredths of a second.
Asher-Smith won the 2013 European Junior 200 m title and the 2014 World Junior 100 m title. In July 2015, she became the first British woman to run under 11 seconds for the 100 m.[1] She then broke Kathy Cook's 31-year-old British 200 m record when finishing fifth at the 2015 World Championships. In this distance, she placed fifth at the 2016 Olympics and fourth at the 2017 World Championships. Asher-Smith is also a four-time individual European champion, including the 200 m title in 2016 and the 100 m/200 m double in 2018, and earned a silver for the 200 m in 2022 before reclaiming the 100m title in 2024.
She was the 2019 Diamond League champion over 100 m.
Domestically, Asher-Smith has won eight national titles, indoors and out, over 60 metres, 100 metres and 200 metres as of 2023.
She is the British record holder for the 100 m and 200 m and the British indoor record holder for the 60 m. Asher-Smith has been listed in the Powerlist as one of the UK's most influential people of African-Caribbean descent, most recently in the 2021 edition.[2][3]
- ^ "Dina Asher-Smith, Britain's fastest woman: student and sprinter". BBC Sport. 5 June 2015. Retrieved 12 August 2018.
- ^ Lavender, Jane (17 November 2020). "Lewis Hamilton ends incredible year top of influential Black Powerlist 2021". Daily Mirror. Retrieved 19 January 2021.
- ^ Mills, Kelly-Ann (25 October 2019). "Raheem Sterling joins Meghan and Stormzy in top 100 most influential black Brits". Daily Mirror. Retrieved 20 April 2020.