Dina Asher-Smith’s verified British records in the 100m and 200m are beyond dispute; her place as the fastest woman this country has produced is not. The sprinter from Orpington holds those records by measurable margins, yet several public claims about her net worth and global standing outrun the documented evidence.

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100m PB: 10.83s · 200m PB: 21.88s · World champion (200m): 2019 · Olympic medals: 2 bronze (4×100m relay) · British record holder: 100m & 200m

Career highlights

Personal bests

Records

  • British record holder – 100m World Athletics
  • British record holder – 200m World Athletics feature
  • First British woman to win a global sprint title BBC Sport report

Snapshot facts

  • Full name: Dina Asher-Smith World Athletics
  • Date of birth: 4 December 1995 World Athletics
  • Birthplace: Orpington, London Olympics.com
  • Coach: Edrick Floreal (since 2022) Team England profile

The table below condenses the most-cited personal data on Asher-Smith — the kind of snapshot that answers quick searches but gets muddied by unverified claims online.

Attribute Value
Full name Dina Asher-Smith
Date of birth 4 December 1995
Birthplace Orpington, London, England
Event 100m, 200m
Club Blackheath & Bromley
Coach Edrick Floreal (since 2022)
100m personal best 10.83s
200m personal best 21.88s
World title 200m champion (2019)
Olympic medals 2 bronze (4×100m relay)

Who is the fastest British woman?

The evidence points to Dina Asher-Smith, but the label comes with measured caveats about how records are verified and compared across eras.

Dina Asher-Smith’s career highlights

  • 2011: Won the 200m at the Commonwealth Youth Games official biography
  • 2013: European Junior 200m champion Olympics.com athlete page
  • 2014: Won the 100m at the World Junior Championships Olympics.com
  • 2015: Became the first British woman to break 11 seconds in the 100m BBC Sport report
  • 2016: European 200m gold; Olympic 4×100m relay bronze official biography · Olympics.com
  • 2017: Broke her foot, returned for 4th in the 200m at Worlds and 4×100m silver official biography
  • 2018: Triple European champion — 100m, 200m, 4×100m Olympics.com
  • 2019: World champion in 200m; silver in 100m; 3 medals at a single Worlds Olympics.com · World Athletics
  • 2021: Tokyo Olympic 4×100m relay bronze; withdrew from 200m after hamstring injury Olympics.com
  • 2022: Bronze in 200m at World Championships World Athletics
  • 2023: 5th in 200m at World Championships World Athletics

Dina Asher-Smith’s personal bests

  • 60m indoor: 7.03s World Athletics
  • 100m: 10.83s — British record Olympics.com
  • 200m: 21.88s — British record, set at the 2019 World Championships World Athletics
The pattern: Asher-Smith’s record progression is linear — every major season from 2015 onward produced a national record. Her 2019 season was the peak: 10.83 in the 100m, 21.88 in the 200m, and a global title that no British woman had previously claimed.

How rich is Dina Asher-Smith?

Public estimates put her net worth near $2 million, though neither Asher-Smith nor her management has confirmed any figure. The number circulates on celebrity-wealth sites without a verifiable source, so it should be treated as an estimate, not a statement of fact.

Dina Asher-Smith’s earnings from athletics

Track-and-field prize money is modest compared with mainstream sports. A world championship title carries $60,000 in prize money from World Athletics; Diamond League appearances add incremental sums. Over a decade, race earnings alone would not approach seven figures, meaning the bulk of her wealth comes from sponsorship.

Endorsements and sponsorships

Asher-Smith’s sponsorship roster includes Nike, Epson, and other brands that have backed her since her breakthrough in 2015. Nike’s elite athlete contracts typically carry base retainers plus bonuses tied to results. Sponsorships, not prize money, are the primary engine behind her estimated net worth.

Note on reliability: Net-worth figures for Asher-Smith are estimates circulated by celebrity-wealth aggregators. She has never published earnings or audited accounts. The $2 million figure is a rough industry approximation, and treating it as fact would overstate the evidence.

What ethnicity is Dina Asher-Smith?

Her mixed heritage (Jamaican and British)

Asher-Smith was born in London to Jamaican parents. In interviews, she has spoken about the duality of carrying Jamaican heritage while representing Great Britain — a theme that shaped her identity as an athlete. Her parents moved to England before her birth, and she describes herself as British with Jamaican roots.

Why this matters: Ethnicity is frequently mischaracterised in online discussions. Asher-Smith’s Jamaican-British background is documented in her official biography and Team England profile, but headlines sometimes reduce her to a single label. The verified record is simple: born in Orpington, raised in London, Jamaican parents.

Is Amy Hunt faster than Dina Asher-Smith?

No. Head-to-head on verified times, Asher-Smith holds the faster marks in both sprint distances. Amy Hunt is a rising talent with a strong 200m pedigree, but her personal bests trail Asher-Smith’s by measurable margins.

Amy Hunt’s personal bests

Hunt’s 200m personal best is 22.30s, set in 2023. Her 100m personal best remains slower than 10.83s; she has not broken 11 seconds as of 2025. Hunt’s junior results were exceptional — she won the 200m at the 2018 World U20 Championships — but senior-level consistency is still maturing.

Head-to-head results

Asher-Smith and Hunt have rarely raced in the same final. When Hunt was emerging in 2019, Asher-Smith was already a world champion. Hunt is 7 years younger, so a fair comparison requires projecting potential rather than measuring current head-to-head outcomes.

The comparison table below shows where each sprinter stands on verified, electronically timed race data.

Metric Dina Asher-Smith Amy Hunt
100m personal best 10.83s Slower than 11.00s (not yet broken)
200m personal best 21.88s 22.30s
World title 2019 champion (200m) None
Olympic medal 2 bronze (4×100m) None
European title 3 golds (2018) U20 champion (2018)
Senior experience Since 2013 Since 2019

The implication: Asher-Smith’s times are built on 10 years of senior championship racing. Hunt’s potential is clear, but pace-for-pace, Asher-Smith remains the benchmark.

Who is the fastest woman alive today?

Among active sprinters, the title of fastest woman is contested between Sha’Carri Richardson and Shericka Jackson, both of whom share the fastest 100m time among active athletes.

Current fastest women

Richardson and Jackson each ran 10.65s in the 100m — Richardson at the 2023 World Championships, Jackson in 2022. Asher-Smith’s 10.83s places her in the elite tier but is a step behind the world’s top speedsters. Jamaica’s Elaine Thompson-Herah’s 10.54s from 2021 remains the fastest legal run since Florence Griffith-Joyner’s world record.

Historical fastest women

Florence Griffith-Joyner’s 10.49s (1988) still stands as the world record. No active sprinter has approached it; Thompson-Herah’s 10.54s is the closest in the modern era. Asher-Smith’s 10.83s is a British record but roughly 0.3s off the global mark.

The takeaway: Asher-Smith is Britain’s fastest, but the global hierarchy is dominated by Jamaican and American sprinters. Using “fastest British woman” as a synonym for “fastest woman” is a category error that conflates national and world-level records.

Dina Asher-Smith career timeline

  • 2013: European Junior 200m gold Olympics.com
  • 2014: Commonwealth Games 4×100m silver; World Junior 100m gold Olympics.com · official biography
  • 2015: First British woman under 11s in the 100m; 5th in 200m at World Championships, breaking Kathy Cook’s British record with 22.07 BBC Sport · World Athletics feature
  • 2016: European 200m gold; 5th in 200m at Rio Olympics; 4×100m relay bronze official biography · Olympics.com
  • 2017: Broken foot; returned for 4th in 200m at Worlds; 4×100m silver official biography
  • 2018: Triple European champion — 100m, 200m, 4×100m; national records in 100m and 200m Olympics.com
  • 2019: World champion in 200m, silver in 100m, bronze in 4×100m; 21.88 British record; 10.83 British record; 3 medals at a single Worlds World Athletics · Olympics.com
  • 2021: Withdrew from 200m at Tokyo after hamstring injury; helped Britain to 4×100m relay bronze; 41.55 relay time listed by World Athletics as British record Olympics.com · World Athletics
  • 2022: Bronze in 200m at World Championships World Athletics
  • 2023: 5th in 200m at World Championships World Athletics

“The training is where the confidence comes from. If I’ve done the work, the race is just the execution.”

— Dina Asher-Smith, interviewed by BBC Sport

“Dina’s preparation is meticulous. She approaches every session with the same focus as a final, and that consistency is what separates her from the field.”

— Edrick Floreal, coach, quoted by Team England
Additional sources

diamondleague.com, worldathletics.org, nationecho.uk, en.wikipedia.org

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Frequently asked questions

What is Dina Asher-Smith’s personal best in the 100m?

Dina Asher-Smith’s 100m personal best is 10.83 seconds, set at the 2019 World Championships in Doha where she won silver. It is the British record.

How old is Dina Asher-Smith?

Dina Asher-Smith was born on 4 December 1995, making her 29 years old as of 2025.

What awards has Dina Asher-Smith won?

She is the 2019 world champion in the 200m, triple European champion (2018), and holds two Olympic bronze medals in the 4×100m relay (Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020). She also holds British records in the 100m and 200m.

Who is Dina Asher-Smith’s coach?

Her coach is Edrick Floreal, who has worked with her since 2022. Floreal is the head coach at the University of Texas and has guided Asher-Smith through her post-Tokyo training cycle.

Does Dina Asher-Smith hold any world records?

No. She holds British records in the 100m (10.83s) and 200m (21.88s), plus a British relay record (41.55s in the 4×100m), but no world records.

Where did Dina Asher-Smith go to university?

She studied history at King’s College London while developing her athletics career in parallel.

What is Dina Asher-Smith’s training regimen?

Asher-Smith’s regimen is built around periodised sprint training: winter strength phases, pre-season speed development, and championship-season peaking. She works with coach Edrick Floreal and has cited consistent sleep and recovery as central to her programme.

More on Dina Asher-Smith: Biography, Best Times, Net Worth, and Comparisons and Dina Asher-Smith: Biography, Records, and Comparisons.

Bottom line: What this means: Asher-Smith’s legacy is already fixed — she is the fastest British woman in recorded history, a world champion, and the standard against which all future British sprinters will be measured. The unverified estimates about her wealth and the inflated claims about her global rank are noise around a signal that World Athletics has already documented.