Jasmine Jones
Jasmine Jones is an American track and field athlete. She was the silver medalist in the 400 m hurdles at the 2025 World Championships and competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics, finishing fourth in the final.
Jones previously won the gold medal at the 2019 Pan American U20 Championships in the 100 m hurdles and was runner-up in the 60 m hurdles at the 2024 USA Indoor Track and Field Championships.
Early life
Daughter of Henry Jones, an NFL All-Pro safety for the Buffalo Bills from 1991 to 2000, and Joanna Cox Jones, an NCAA D1 sprinter, Jones attended Greater Atlanta Christian School and won a national age-group title, over 400 m hurdles, in 2016. She was named the Georgia female track and field athlete of the year in 2019.Career
Early career
Jones won gold in the 100 m hurdles at the 2019 USATF U20 Outdoor Championships in Miramar, Florida in June. She then won gold in the same event at the 2019 Pan American U20 Athletics Championships in San Jose, Costa Rica in July 2019.Jones ran track at college for USC Trojans with whom she claimed an NCAA Outdoors title in the 4 × 100 m relay in her first year of 2021. The following year, she was runner-up in the NCAA Outdoors 100 m hurdles in a personal best time of 12.66 seconds.
2024: Olympic debut
Jones finished as runner-up in the 60 m hurdles at the US National Indoors Championships in New Mexico in February 2024, running a personal best time of 7.82 seconds. Competing at the NCAA Indoor Championships in Boston, Massachusetts, she won the 60 metres hurdles final in a personal best time of 7.77 seconds.She won the 400 m hurdles at the NCAA Championships in Eugene, Oregon in June 2024 in 53.15 seconds. Later that month, she ran a personal best 52.77 seconds to finish third in the 400 metres hurdles at the US Olympic trials.
Jones placed fourth at the 2024 Olympic Games in the 400 m hurdles with a time of 52.29 seconds, which was a personal best as well as a US collegiate record.
2025: World Championships silver medalist
Announced for the inaugural season of the Michael Johnson founded Grand Slam Track, She was the slam winner at the 2025 Philadelphia Slam in the long hurdles category after finishing second in both the 400 metres hurdles and 400 metres races. She ran 53.18 seconds to finish second to Femke Bol in the 400 metres hurdles at the 2025 London Athletics Meet, part of the 2025 Diamond League, on 19 July.She placed third in the final of the 400 metres hurdles at the 2025 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships. She also placed third in the 400 metres hurdles on 16 August in the Diamond League at the 2025 Kamila Skolimowska Memorial, in Poland.
Jones was selected for the American team for the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan, winning the silver medal in the 400 metres hurdles, running a personal best time of 52.08 seconds.