Ask anyone who follows British athletics to name the woman leading the sprint squad and the answer is immediate: Dina Asher-Smith. She has held the national 100m record at 10.83 seconds since…
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There’s a reason British athletics fans remember 2 October 2019 so clearly: it was the night Dina Asher-Smith ran 21.88 seconds and became the first British woman to win a global sprint…
A sprint finish in 2019 changed how Britain sees its female sprinters: Dina Asher-Smith won the 200m world title in 21.88 seconds, a national record that still stands, and came home with…
There aren’t many athletes who can say they went from a final-year history seminar to a national sprint record in the same season — but Dina Asher-Smith did exactly that. She is…
You probably know her as the woman who made British sprinting exciting again, and Dina Asher-Smith, born in London on 4 December 1995, is the fastest British woman in history—her 100m personal…
There’s a moment every British athletics fan remembers: watching Dina Asher-Smith cross the line in Doha in 2019, having just become the first British woman to win a global sprint title. Her…
British sprinting has a habit of producing one name you learn at the relay medal ceremony, then keep following through the individual finals. Dina Asher-Smith is that name: she swept the 100m,…
Every few years, British athletics produces someone who makes the rest of the field look like they are running a different race. Dina Asher-Smith has been that person since she was a…
For a generation of British athletics fans, Dina Asher-Smith has been the face of sprinting—the woman who turned raw teenage promise into world championship gold and national records. Yet behind the medals…
When a sprinter can break a British record and still graduate with a history degree, it is clear there is more to the story than stopwatches alone. Dina Asher‑Smith, the 2019 World…