If Dina Asher-Smith’s name has only reached you through celebrity headlines, the sprint record book is a better place to start, beginning with her British 100 m record of 10.83 s, set in Doha…
If Dina Asher-Smith’s name has only reached you through celebrity headlines, the sprint record book is a better place to start, beginning with her British 100 m record of 10.83 s, set in Doha…
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It takes a rare kind of consistency to hold a national 100m record while rivals keep arriving, and Dina Asher-Smith has done…
Every so often a sprinter comes along who changes what a nation thinks is possible on the track. For Britain, that sprinter…
Any British sprint conversation worth having eventually lands on the same question: who owns the country’s fastest times, and who is coming…
Some athletes inherit a route; Dina Asher-Smith had to invent one. She sprinted past every British woman before her — first to…
Every four years, the conversation about British sprinting starts with one question: can anyone catch the women at the top of the…
Ask a British athletics fan who the country’s fastest woman is, and the answer comes fast: Dina Asher-Smith, the south London sprinter…
Ask anyone who follows British athletics to name the woman leading the sprint squad and the answer is immediate: Dina Asher-Smith. She…
You probably know her as the woman who made British sprinting exciting again, and Dina Asher-Smith, born in London on 4 December…
There’s a moment every British athletics fan remembers: watching Dina Asher-Smith cross the line in Doha in 2019, having just become the…
British sprinting has a habit of producing one name you learn at the relay medal ceremony, then keep following through the individual…
Every few years, British athletics produces someone who makes the rest of the field look like they are running a different race.…
When a sprinter can break a British record and still graduate with a history degree, it is clear there is more to…
When the scoreboard in Doha flashed 21.88, Dina Asher-Smith had run herself into British history — the first British woman to win…
Britain’s fastest-ever woman, Dina Asher-Smith, embodies a compelling paradox: a record-breaker who has dominated European and World Championships but is still pursuing…
Ask any British athletics fan to name the fastest woman the country has ever produced, and the answer comes in a single…
Anyone who has watched Dina Asher-Smith surge down the home straight knows the 100 metres is more than a race for her…