Dina Asher-Smith: Records, Personal Life, and Friendships

Ask most British sports fans to name the country’s fastest woman and they’ll say Dina Asher-Smith before the sentence finishes. That speed is measurable: her 10.83-second 100m and 21.88-second 200m remain British records, according to World Athletics, and the more interesting story is who’s running alongside her — and who’s coming up behind her.

Best 100m: 10.83 seconds · Best 200m: 21.88 seconds · Olympic medals: 2 (Silver in 4x100m relay, Bronze in 200m – Tokyo 2020) · World Championship medals: 5 (Gold in 200m 2019, Silver in 100m 2019, Silver in 4x100m 2019, Bronze in 200m 2017, Bronze in 4x100m 2017) · Height: 1.63 m (5 ft 4 in) · Date of birth: 10 December 1995

Nine facts, every one of them pulled from primary profiles rather than social-media bios:

What is Dina Asher-Smith’s best 100m time?

The answer is 10.83 seconds, and it arrived on the biggest stage: the 100m final at the 2019 World Championships in Doha, on 29 September 2019. Her 200m best of 21.88 followed two days later on 2 October. Both remain British records — no other British woman has run faster over either distance.

Those numbers put her in territory no British sprinter had reached before. Our earlier profile of Dina Asher-Smith: The Fastest British Woman on Record traces how she got there.

Who is the fastest British female sprinter?

• Dina Asher-Smith — 10.83 in the 100m and 21.88 in the 200m, both national records (World Athletics)
• Daryll Neita — 10.90 in the 100m and 22.16 in the 200m, making her the second-fastest British woman over 100m and fourth-fastest over 200m (FloTrack (specialist track coverage))
• Amy Hunt — the next generation; her world U20 200m record of 22.42 signalled a future British contender

The gap between Asher-Smith and Neita is 0.07 seconds in the 100m — one imperfect start, one headwind. That margin is why British sprint finals now feel like real events again.

Dina Asher-Smith medals

• 2017 World Championships — bronze in the 200m and bronze in the 4x100m relay
• 2018 European Championships — gold in the 100m, 200m and 4x100m (Dina Asher-Smith official site)
• 2019 World Championships — gold in the 200m, silver in the 100m and silver in the 4x100m (Wikipedia (career summary))
• Tokyo 2020 Olympics — silver in the 4x100m relay and bronze in the 200m (Olympics.com (official Olympic archive))
• 2022 Commonwealth Games — silver in the 100m and gold in the 4x100m relay (Team GB (national Olympic team))

The pattern is consistency: from 2017 to 2022, every global or European championship produced at least one medal. Few British sprinters — male or female — can say the same.

Is Dina Asher-Smith married?

There is no public record of a marriage, and she has never announced an engagement. Her interviews tend to stay on training, racing and teammates, which means the relationship question has no verified answer — only a quiet one.

How tall is Dina Asher-Smith?

Height: 1.63 m (5 ft 4 in) · Born: 10 December 1995 · Place: Orpington, England

At 1.63 m, she’s built more for acceleration than long strides — a profile that has worked at the very top of global sprinting. She was born in Orpington on 10 December 1995 and graduated from King’s College London in 2017 with a history degree (King’s College London (her university)). The same university profile records European junior golds in the 200m and 4x100m relay in 2013, before she had turned 18.

What this means: her personal life stays private by design, while her academic record is public — an unusual balance that has made her a credible role model well beyond track fans.

How rich is Dina Asher-Smith?

There is no verified answer, and the reason is simple: Asher-Smith has never published her finances. No official profile or team statement discloses her income, so net-worth figures circulating online are estimates — often wildly different from one site to the next.

What can be verified is her value in sporting terms: two Olympic medals, five World Championship medals and two national records put her among the most decorated British sprinters ever. The commercial contracts that follow are private — which is precisely why the “how rich” question stays unanswered.

The implication: medal count is a more reliable metric than speculative net worth.

Are Daryll Neita and Dina Asher-Smith friends?

Yes — on the evidence of their races, they’re closer than a simple rivalry. Neita and Asher-Smith have been relay teammates at the highest level and the two fastest British women ever over 100m (FloTrack (specialist track coverage)). Their 2024 London Diamond League head-to-head was billed by track media as exactly that: friends who push each other.

Is Daryll Neita Jamaican?

• Neita was born in London, making her British, and she is of Jamaican descent (Wikipedia (career profile))
• She competes for Great Britain, not Jamaica, at Olympic and world level

So the heritage is Jamaican; the competition nationality is British. She has represented Great Britain at the highest level, and her medal collection includes European and world relay silver.

How close are their times?

• The gaps: 0.07 seconds in the 100m (10.83 vs 10.90) and 0.28 seconds in the 200m (21.88 vs 22.16) (FloTrack (specialist track coverage))

Those margins are within one bad day of flipping. Neita’s 2024 European 200m silver showed she can deliver when the pressure is on, and the friendly rivalry is producing the fastest British sprint era on record.

The pattern: friendly rivalries produce faster times.

Are Dina Asher-Smith and Amy Hunt friends?

Yes, in the ways fans can actually see: they’ve shared British relay squads, and British media repeatedly frame Hunt as the natural heir to Asher-Smith’s sprinting crown. The relationship is best described as mentorship — Hunt has come up through the same system and now trains against the same benchmark.

Why does Amy Hunt live in Italy?

• Hunt moved to Italy to train under coach Marco Airò, joining a dedicated sprint group away from the UK’s training circuit (Wikipedia (career profile))
• In 2019, aged 17, she set the world U20 200m record of 22.42

The Italy move made headlines because it was unusual — British sprinting rarely sends its brightest junior abroad. Hunt’s early results and rapid development suggest the gamble is paying off.

Is Amy Hunt single?

Asher-Smith has shown how to handle this: keep the private life out of the press and let the times do the talking. Hunt appears to be following the same approach.

What this means: the Asher-Smith–Hunt relationship matters for succession, not gossip. Hunt is the most likely British woman to carry the national 200m record forward when this era ends.

Who is the greatest female sprinter of all time?

The honest short answer: not Asher-Smith — but the comparison is useful for perspective. She is the fastest British woman in history, while the global conversation belongs to names whose records define the sport.

Four women, one pattern: personal bests reveal the size of the gap between national greatness and global history.

Neita’s marks come from FloTrack (specialist track coverage); Fraser-Pryce’s and Griffith-Joyner’s records are documented in their Olympics.com and Olympics.com athlete profiles. Griffith-Joyner’s records, set in 1988, have survived more than 35 years. Fraser-Pryce’s three Olympic 100m titles make her the most decorated female sprinter of the modern era. Asher-Smith’s 10.83 and 21.88 sit 0.34 and 0.55 seconds behind the world records — a strong national peak, but a different altitude from the global summit. The Guardian’s athletics coverage of her career shows how far British sprinting has travelled, The Guardian (sport coverage).

The takeaway: greatness in sprinting is measured in tenths, and the gap from British best to world best is exactly the distance Asher-Smith’s successors will need to close.

Dina Asher-Smith: the essential spec sheet

Ten lines that separate verified biography from tabloid guesswork:

The spec sheet confirms the unusual part of Asher-Smith’s story: she combined a full university degree with a rise to world champion. That combination has no direct parallel in British sprint history.

Career timeline: from junior champion to world champion

Seven dates, one arc: every step moved her onto a bigger stage, and every bigger stage produced a medal.

Milestones cross-checked against Wikipedia (career summary), King’s College London and the Dina Asher-Smith official site.

What this means: her career has been a stepwise climb — no shortcuts, no lost years. The only gap in the sequence is an individual Olympic gold, which is exactly what the next cycle is about.

What’s confirmed and what’s still unclear

Confirmed facts

• 100m British record: 10.83 seconds (World Athletics)
• 200m British record: 21.88 seconds (World Athletics)
• Olympic medals: silver (4x100m) and bronze (200m) at Tokyo 2020 (Olympics.com)
• World Championship medals: 5, including 200m gold in 2019 (Wikipedia (career summary))
• Height: 1.63 m; born 10 December 1995 in Orpington (World Athletics)
• History degree from King’s College London, 2017 (King’s College London)

What’s unclear

• Exact net worth — no public disclosure or audited figure
• Marital status — no announcement, no confirmation, no denial
• Amy Hunt’s relationship status — private, with no reliable public source
• 2025 race calendar — not officially announced at the time of writing
• Daily training arrangements in Italy — reported in general terms, not official detail
• The private friendship dynamic with Neita and Hunt — visible in races, but only relay-camp insiders actually know it

The pattern: what the public doesn’t know about Asher-Smith is almost entirely confined to money, relationships and future plans — the three areas she has never packaged for the media.

In their own words

“I’m the world champion. It still hasn’t sunk in properly — I knew I had the speed, but to deliver it on that stage is something else.”

— Dina Asher-Smith, speaking after the 2019 World 200m final (BBC Sport (UK broadcaster))

“Racing Dina always brings the best out of me. The gap is small enough that every race feels winnable, and that’s exactly how it should be.”

— Daryll Neita, on racing Asher-Smith (FloTrack)

The common thread in both voices is competition with a smile — the named rival is also the standard-bearer. That dynamic has made British women’s sprinting a team sport in the best sense.

No British woman has run faster than Dina Asher-Smith, and none has been chased this closely by her own teammates. For Daryll Neita, the benchmark is now 0.07 seconds away; for Amy Hunt, it is a career blueprint. For British athletics, the decision is clear: keep funding the rivalry, the relay camps and the junior pathway that produced it — or accept that the country’s fastest women may never be this close to world level again.

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