Dina Asher-Smith: Achievements, Fastest Times & Personal Life

Fastest 100m: 10.83 sec ·
Fastest 200m: 21.88 sec ·
World champion: 200m (2019) ·
Olympic medals: 1 silver, 3 bronze ·
British records: 100m, 200m, 4x100m

Key facts at a glance

Seven rows, one pattern: each line either is a British record or explains how she reached it.

The pattern: the sourced rows are the timed, measurable facts, while the unsourced rows stay at the level of standard athlete-profile biography.

What are Dina Asher-Smith’s major achievements in athletics?

Her World Athletics profile opens with a list short enough to memorize: world champion, Olympic silver medallist, Diamond League Final winner (World Athletics (governing body)). The medals behind that list explain why she reset expectations for British women’s sprinting.

Major titles and medals

• 2019: world champion in the 200m in Doha — the first British woman to win a world sprint title (Dina Asher-Smith official website (primary biography))
• 2018: European champion in the 100m, 200m and 4x100m relay — one championship, three golds (Dina Asher-Smith official website)
• Olympic medals: bronze in the 100m and the 4x100m relay at Rio 2016; silver in the 4x100m relay and bronze in the 200m at Tokyo 2021
• World Championships: six medals between 2015 and 2023, including the 2019 200m gold

Records and personal bests

• 100m: 10.83 seconds, British record, set in Doha in 2019
• 200m: 21.88 seconds, British record
• 4x100m relay: 41.77 seconds, British record
• Diamond League Final winner, per her governing-body profile

The pattern is escalation: junior medals in 2015, a European treble in 2018, a world title in 2019, Olympic podium finishes in 2021. Each wave lifted the national record with it.

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

10.83 seconds — that is the number on the official record, set on 29 September 2019 in Doha.

The official record

• Officially listed 100m personal best and British record: 10.83 seconds
• Set at the 2019 World Championships in Doha, where she also finished second in the 100m final
• The record still stands, which is why she is listed as the fastest British woman in history

How her fastest 100m compares

• Amy Hunt’s 10.97 is 0.14 seconds slower — the closest any British rival has come on the official lists
• Hunt is one of only four British women reported to have broken 11 seconds

The catch: records are legal marks, and 10.83 has been the legal British ceiling long enough that a rival like Hunt is now within reach — 0.14 seconds is one good final away.

Is Amy Hunt faster than Dina Asher-Smith?

Not by the record books — but Hunt has a head-to-head win, and the gap is closing.

Amy Hunt’s personal bests

• 100m: 10.97 seconds, making her the fourth British woman reported to have broken 11 seconds (Team England (national team profile))
• 200m: 22.42 seconds — a world under-18 record set in Mannheim in June 2019 (BBC Sport (UK sports desk))
• That 200m came in her fifth competitive outdoor 200m race (Team England (national team profile))

Head-to-head times

• June 20, Birmingham: Hunt retained the British 100m title in 11.01 seconds, with Asher-Smith second in 11.13 (Olympics.com (Olympic Channel))
• Hunt’s first British 100m title in 2025 came with Asher-Smith out of the race (Olympics.com (Olympic Channel))
• Asher-Smith’s 100m best remains 0.14 seconds faster than Hunt’s 10.97 (World Athletics)

What this means: Hunt has the momentum, the age curve and the recent win; Asher-Smith has the faster official times in both events. On paper it is still Asher-Smith; in the head-to-head column it is now Hunt.

Who are some famous UK female sprinters?

British women’s sprinting is not a one-name history — it is a relay of eras, from 2000s Olympic medalists to the current record-holder and the generation chasing her.

Current reference points

• Dina Asher-Smith: the fastest British woman on official record — 10.83 in the 100m, 21.88 in the 200m
• Amy Hunt: already under 11 seconds, with a world U18 200m record from 2019 (BBC Sport (UK sports desk))
• Daryll Neita: a constant presence in British relay finals, with Olympic relay medals

Amy Hunt’s own path shows that depth: she grew up in Newark, Nottinghamshire, joined Grantham Athletic Club at 12 (BBC Radio 4 (UK broadcaster)), and started in middle-distance running and triathlon before sprinting (BBC Radio 4 (UK broadcaster)).

The earlier eras

• Katherine Merry: Olympic bronze medalist at Sydney 2000
• Christine Ohuruogu: Olympic 400m champion at Beijing 2008
• Margaret Adeoye: Commonwealth medalist

Why this matters: the depth is generational — an Olympic champion from 2008, a world champion from 2019, and a sprinter born in 2002 who is already under 11 seconds. That is a pipeline, not a solo act.

Is Dina Asher-Smith married?

The direct answer: there is no public marriage on record as of 2025.

Marital status

• No wedding, partner or spouse appears in her official biography — the page reads as an athletics profile, not a personal one
• Interviews and press coverage focus on training, records and competition; she keeps private life out of the frame

Heritage and family

• Born in Orpington, London, to parents from Jamaica — so the short answer to “Is she Jamaican?” is: British by birth, Jamaican by family roots

The Neita connection

• She and fellow British sprinter Daryll Neita are close friends and training partners, a link obvious in relay coverage and joint appearances

The pattern: public Asher-Smith is a sprinter first; the personal details that surface — Jamaican parents, a training bond with Neita — are the ones tied to running. Everything else is unverified by design.

Dina Asher-Smith vs Amy Hunt: the numbers side by side

Five rows, one pattern: Asher-Smith leads every time on the board; Hunt leads the recent results and the calendar.

The pattern: the individual numbers favor Asher-Smith, but the result column favors Hunt — and in sprinting, the result column has a shorter memory than the record books.

Career timeline: from London club to world champion

The medals arrived in waves rather than a steady drip, which is the signature of a career built on long cycles.

• 2015 — first World Championship medals: bronze in the 100m and 200m
• 2016 — Olympic debut in Rio; bronze in the 100m and 4x100m relay
• 2017 — world silver in the 4x100m relay
• 2018 — European champion in the 100m, 200m and 4x100m; Commonwealth gold in the 200m
• 2019 — world champion in the 200m; British 100m record of 10.83
• 2021 — Olympic silver in the 4x100m relay and bronze in the 200m
• 2025 — coaching change announced; season opens with a 60m win in Boston

What this means: every major step in her career has been followed by another, larger step within two years. The 2025 reset is the next one to watch.

What’s confirmed and what’s still unclear

The split is telling: the confirmed column is mostly athletics data; the unclear column is mostly biography and forecast.

Key voices on the rivalry

Facing Asher-Smith means bringing your best performance — “one of the fastest athletes on the circuit” is how Hunt sized up the challenge before beating her in Birmingham.

Amy Hunt, quoted by Olympics.com (Olympic Channel)

Her official biography leads with the same facts the record books show: world champion, European champion, and British record-holder in the 100m and 200m.

Dina Asher-Smith, via her official website

Hunt’s 22.42-second world under-18 200m record arrived in her fifth competitive outdoor 200m race.

Team England (national team profile)

The pattern: Hunt treats Asher-Smith as the benchmark she has to beat; Asher-Smith’s bio answers with records, not words.

The takeaway

Dina Asher-Smith is the fastest British woman in history on the official lists, and the numbers are not close to being mythical: 10.83 for 100m, 21.88 for 200m, both still national records. What has changed is the neighborhood — Amy Hunt now owns a British 100m title and a head-to-head win, and the gap between them is 0.14 seconds. For British women’s sprinting, the choice is clear: stage the Asher-Smith-Hunt rivalry as often as possible, or watch the 10.83 record become a solitary peak instead of a stepping stone.

Related reading

• Dina Asher-Smith: Records, Achievements, and Comparisons
• Dina Asher-Smith: Fastest 100m Time, Records and Facts

The pattern: both explainers return to the same verified times rather than adding new private details.

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