Jasmine Mari Jones (born November 30, 2001) is an American track and field athlete. In 2026, she won the 400 m hurdles at the inaugural World Ultimate Championship. She was the silver medalist 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 July 19.
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 August 16 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.
2026: Ultimate champion On 10 July 2026, Jones ran a personal best of 51.09 seconds for the 400 metres flat at the 2026 Herculis event in Monaco, part of the 2026 Diamond League. On 14 July, she won over 400 metres hurdles in 52.91 seconds at the István Gyulai Memorial, in Budapest. Competing at the inaugural World Ultimate Championship in Budapest on 13 September, Jones won the 400 m hurdles in a season's best time of 52.45 seconds for the first major international title of her career.
Competition results International championships 2019Pan American U20 ChampionshipsSan José, Costa Rica1st100 m hurdles13.202024Olympic GamesParis, France4th400 m hurdles52.292025World ChampionshipsTokyo, Japan2nd400 m hurdles52.082026World Ultimate ChampionshipBudapest, Hungary1st400 m hurdles52.45
National championships 2021NCAA Division I Indoor ChampionshipsFayetteville, Arkansas − (h) 60 m hurdles NCAA Division I Outdoor ChampionshipsEugene, Oregon 11th 100 m hurdles 12.941st 4 × 100 m relay 42.82 U.S. Olympic Trials Eugene, Oregon − (h) 100 m hurdles 2022NCAA Division I Indoor ChampionshipsBirmingham, Alabama 3rd (h)1 60 m hurdles 7.93 4th 4 × 400 m relay 3:33.03NCAA Division I Outdoor ChampionshipsEugene, Oregon2nd 100 m hurdles 12.66 10th 4 × 100 m relay 43.32 16th 4 × 400 m relay 3:35.522023NCAA Division I Indoor Championships Albuquerque, New Mexico 4th 4 × 400 m relay 3:28.582024 U.S. Indoor Championships Albuquerque, New Mexico2nd 60 m hurdles 7.78NCAA Division I Indoor ChampionshipsBoston, Massachusetts1st 60 m hurdles 7.772nd 4 × 400 m relay 3:27.62NCAA Division I Outdoor ChampionshipsEugene, Oregon 4th 100 m hurdles 12.641st 400 m hurdles 53.15 U.S. Olympic Trials Eugene, Oregon3rd 400 m hurdles 52.77 2025 U.S. Championships Eugene, Oregon3rd 400 m hurdles 53.23
1 Did not start in the final
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