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.

In 2023, she won her first major senior title at the 2023 European Indoor Championships.

At the 2007 English Schools Championships she was the high jump runner-up with a personal best of, finishing behind Katarina Johnson-Thompson.

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

In 2010, she won a scholarship to study at Millfield public school.

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

Sawyers is a five-time national champion.

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.

Sawyer's first international appearances came in 2011.

At the World Youth Championships, she placed ninth in the heptathlon.

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 was also a 4 × 100 metres relay champion with England at that event.

As a junior, She won bronze in the long jump at the 2012 World Junior Championships and silver at the 2013 European Junior Championships.Sawyers earned silver at the 2015 European Under-23 Championships.

Sawyer won a silver medal at the Winter Youth Olympic Games in Innsbuck in 2012 in bobsleigh.

Outside of sport, Sawyers is also 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.

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

At ten years old she began to take part in athletics events at school and decided to start practising in various events.

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

As part of City of Stoke Athletics Club, Sawyers focused mainly on high jump and long jump.

Sawyers' bobsleigh training at the start of 2012 meant she was ill-prepared for heptathlon in the summer.

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.

This proved to be a successful switch as she set a personal best and world-leading junior mark of to place third at the British Championships.

Sawyers was the bronze medallist at the World Junior Championships – her distance of was beaten only by the wind-assisted jumps of British rival Katerina Johnson-Thompson and Germany's Lena Malkus.

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

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

She continued her focus on the long jump into the 2013 season.

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

She 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.

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

She changed university to study law and criminology at Bristol University.

She based her training near the University of Bath, however, working with coach and former long jumper Alan Lerwill.

Sawyers won the silver medal representing England in the long jump at the 2014 Commonwealth Games.

At the start of 2014, Sawyers set an indoor best of to place second to Johnson-Thompson at the British Indoor Championships.

Outdoors, she had a string of victories (including a win at the Universities Championships) in the buildup to the European Team Championships, where she placed ninth overall.

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.

However, Johnson-Thompson withdrew prior to the championships and the other leading English athlete Proctor could not compete in the final due to injury, making Sawyer's England's leading medal hope.

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

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