Jazmin Sawyers

Jazmin Sawyers

Personal information
Nationality	British
Citizenship	United Kingdom
Born	(1994-05-21) 21 May 1994 (age 23)
Medal record Jazmin Sawyers Medal record Women's Bobsleigh Representing  Great Britain Winter Youth Olympics 2012 Innsbruck Bobsleigh Women's athletics Representing  Great Britain World Junior Athletics Championships 2012 Barcelona Long jump European Championships 2016 Amsterdam Long jump Representing  England Commonwealth Games 2014 Glasgow Long jump Commonwealth Youth Games 2011 Isle of Man Long jump 2011 Isle of Man 4 x 100m relay

Jazmin Sawyers (born 21 May 1994) is a British track and field athlete who competes in the long jump. She has also competed as a bobsledder and a heptathlete.

She was the silver medallist in the long jump at the 2014 Commonwealth Games. In 2017, she competed in the sixth series of The Voice UK.

Born in Stoke-on-Trent to a Jamaican father and an English mother, Sawyers 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.

As part of City of Stoke Athletics Club, she focused mainly on high jump and long jump. At the 2007 English Schools Championships she was the high jump runner-up with a personal best of 1.70 m (5 ft 6 ³⁄₄ in), finishing behind Katarina Johnson-Thompson. The following year she 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.

Sawyers studied for a degree in law at Bristol University.

Her first international appearances came in 2011. At the 2011 World Youth Championships in Athletics 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 2011 Commonwealth Youth Games. She was also a 4×100 metres relay champion with England at that event. She was also approached by the British Bobsleigh Association that year to train for the inaugural Youth Winter Olympics. Acting as brakewoman, she formed a two-man bob team with Mica McNeil. In January 2012 she represented Great Britain at the bobsleigh at the 2012 Winter Youth Olympics and Sawyers and McNeil became the country's first ever medal-winning team at the competition (and the only medallists for Britain that year), taking the silver medals behind the Dutch team. As a result, she was chosen as one of the carriers for the 2012 Summer Olympics torch relay.

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