Tasa Jiya
Tasa Jiya is a Dutch track and field athlete who competes as a sprinter. In 2023, she became the Dutch national champion over 200 metres. She won a bronze medal in the women's 4 x 100 metres relay at the 2024 European Athletics Championships.
Career
As a junior athlete, Jiya won nine national youth titles and in 2013 won gold in the 200 meters at the European Youth Olympic Festival. She had a career break after being an unused reserve for the Dutch relay team at the 2016 Olympic Games.In 2021, after returning to athletics, Jiya ran a new personal best time in the 100 metres of 11.58 seconds, and a new personal best time of 23.19 seconds in the 200 meters at a gala in Grootebroek. In 2023, she became the Dutch national champion over 200 metres, in a field which included Femke Bol. She won in a new personal best time of 22.77 seconds.
Jiya was selected for the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest in August 2023, where she qualified for the semi finals of the 200 metres where she ran a new personal best of 22.67 seconds.
Jiya ran as part of the Dutch 4x100m relay team which qualified for the 2024 Paris Olympics at the 2024 World Relays Championships in Nassau, Bahamas. The following month she finished sixth in the 200m at the 2024 BAUHAUS-galan Diamond League event in Stockholm.
Competing over 200 metres at the 2024 European Championships in Rome in June 2024, she finished fifth in the final having run 22.90 seconds. Later on in the championships, she won a bronze medal running the anchor leg for the Dutch team in the 4 x 100 metres relay.
In June 2024, she won the Dutch national 200 meters title in Hengelo in a personal best 22.62 seconds. She competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris over 200 metres, reaching the semi-finals. She also competed in the 4x100m relay at the Games.