Dina Asher-Smith: Fastest British Woman, Net Worth & Records

Ask almost any British athletics fan to name the country’s fastest woman and they’ll say Dina Asher-Smith, and the clock backs them up with British records of 10.83 in the 100m and 21.88 in the 200m. Here’s what the records, the results and the public record actually show about the country’s fastest woman and the new challenger, Amy Hunt.

Born: December 4, 1995 · 100m Personal Best: 10.83 seconds · 200m Personal Best: 21.88 seconds (World Athletics, official record authority) · World Championship Gold Medals: 1 (200m, 2019) (World Athletics, 2019 final results) · Olympic Medals: 1 (Bronze, 4×100m relay, 2020) (World Athletics)

Eight data points, one pattern: every line on her official athlete profile points toward a national record or a global medal.

Who is the fastest British woman in history?

The answer has been stable for years: Dina Asher-Smith. She holds the British records at 100m (10.83) and 200m (21.88) (World Athletics, official record authority), and Encyclopaedia Britannica describes her as the fastest British woman on record (Encyclopaedia Britannica, reference biography).

The 2019 world final in Doha was the night the label locked in: Asher-Smith beat Marie-Josée Ta Lou and Mujinga Kambundji to become the first British female sprinter since Kathy Cook in 1983 to win an individual World Championships medal in the 100m or 200m (BBC Sport, UK broadcaster). Her winning time, 21.88, was also a British national record (BBC Sport).

Is Amy Hunt faster than Dina Asher-Smith?

• 200m personal bests: Asher-Smith 21.88 (2 October 2019) vs Hunt 22.08 (18 September 2025) — World Athletics / Wanda Diamond League
• 100m personal bests: Asher-Smith 10.83 vs Hunt 10.94 (as of 2023) — World Athletics / World Athletics
• London head-to-head, UK Athletics Championships: both timed at 22.14, Asher-Smith first — Athletics Weekly

Not yet. Hunt’s 22.08 is 0.20 seconds slower than the British record (World Athletics), which puts her closer than any British rival has been in the official standings — but close is not faster. In their head-to-head in London, Hunt matched Asher-Smith’s time and still lost the verdict (Athletics Weekly, specialist athletics magazine).

Six rows, one headline: on every meaningful sprint marker, Asher-Smith is still ahead — but the margins have shrunk.

The pattern holds across distances: Asher-Smith’s 10.83 beats Hunt’s listed 100m best of 10.94 by 0.11 seconds (World Athletics), and the world championship résumé still leans Asher-Smith’s way. For the full overlap between the two careers, see our Amy Hunt rivalry and records breakdown.

The breadth of the record book is the point: these marks span indoor, outdoor and championship distances — and all of them carry the same name.

The Amy Hunt connection and national records story maps how the younger sprinter’s marks stack up against this record book — and the next question, about categories and labels, follows from it.

Who is the fastest white woman?

• Official records: World Athletics has no category of this kind — classifications run by age group, nationality and event (World Athletics, official record authority)
• Fan discussions: Russia’s Irina Privalova is the sprinter usually named, with a 100m best of 10.77

The question appears in search engines often enough, but it belongs to fan discussion rather than athletics classification. World Athletics doesn’t rank sprinters by ethnicity. In the informal conversations where the label does circulate, Privalova’s 10.77 is the number that comes up — a time from a previous generation that has nothing to do with who holds the British records today.

Who is the fastest girl of all time?

• Women’s under-18 200m world record: 22.42, set by Amy Hunt in 2019 — a run that also surpassed the British under-20 record at the time (BBC Sport)
• Women’s under-18 100m world record: 10.98, set by Candace Hill

‘Fastest girl of all time’ isn’t a formal title. World Athletics keeps age-group records, and youth marks don’t equal senior ones (World Athletics, official record authority): the under-18 100m record of 10.98 is slower than Asher-Smith’s senior British record of 10.83. Hunt’s 22.42 in 2019 shows how early elite talent announces itself, but the record books that settle the ‘fastest British woman’ question are the senior ones.

Can the fastest girl beat the fastest man?

• Men’s 100m world record: 9.58 seconds, Usain Bolt — the fastest 100m ever run
• Fastest British woman: 10.83 seconds, more than a second behind (World Athletics)
• Men’s and women’s records: maintained as separate categories with separate record books

The honest answer is no. At the elite level, men and women compete in separate events, and the record books are separate for the same reason. Bolt’s 9.58 is the men’s benchmark; the fastest British woman on record sits 1.25 seconds behind it. This isn’t a judgment on anyone’s ability — it’s a structural fact of the sport.

Is a 12 second 100m good for a girl?

• A 12.0-second 100m: a strong time for an amateur female runner
• Asher-Smith’s British record: 10.83 seconds, more than a second faster (World Athletics)
• Elite women’s finals: consistently below 12 seconds, which is why the gap matters

Yes for an amateur, no for a professional. A 12-second 100m is a time most club runners would be delighted with, but it sits more than a second outside the British record. That second is the distance between a personal best and a national record — and in elite sprinting, it’s everything.

The pattern: Asher-Smith’s records are the fixed point of British women’s sprinting, and Hunt is now the closest challenger on paper — 0.20 seconds back in the 200m, 0.11 in the 100m. No one has taken a national record from her yet. That’s the headline.

What ethnicity is Dina Asher-Smith?

Her background connects Britain to the Caribbean in a way that has shaped British sprinting for generations. Dina Asher-Smith was born in Orpington, in the London borough of Bromley, to a father from Jamaica and a mother from Trinidad and Tobago (Encyclopaedia Britannica, reference biography).

Family background

• Father’s side: Jamaican heritage
• Mother’s side: Trinidadian heritage
• Raised in Orpington, south-east London

Jamaican and Trinidadian roots are a familiar mix in British athletics, where Caribbean families have produced generations of sprinters. Asher-Smith grew up in the same corner of south-east London where her club, Blackheath & Bromley, operates — a local path to a world title.

Nationality

• Born in Orpington, England, on 4 December 1995 (World Athletics)
• Competes for Great Britain in international competition (World Athletics)
• British record-holder indoors at 60m and outdoors at 100m and 200m (World Athletics)

Nationality in athletics is an administrative matter. Athletes compete under the federation that registers them, and Asher-Smith is registered for Great Britain — the team name on her World Athletics profile, and the nationality written beside every record she holds (World Athletics).

The implication: ‘fastest British woman’ is a record-book fact, not an identity claim. Her Caribbean heritage is part of the biography; the records belong to Great Britain.

Is Dina Asher-Smith married?

The short answer, as of 2025: no public record of a marriage. No wedding announcement, no engagement announcement and no spouse listed on her athlete profiles (World Athletics).

Relationship status

• Not married as of 2025
• No engagement or wedding has been publicly announced

That is the complete extent of what’s verifiable. Asher-Smith hasn’t made her private life a public story, and the sports media has generally respected that boundary. The absence of a marriage record isn’t a statement about her personal life; it’s simply the state of the public record.

Partner

• No partner has been named in public sources
• Her relationship status remains private

Fans searching for a partner’s name or a wedding date are looking for a detail the mainstream press has never published. The honest answer is that the absence of confirmation is itself the answer.

The trade-off: a world-class athlete who keeps her private life private leaves a gap in the biography — and that gap invites speculation, which is why ‘no confirmed marriage’ is the only accurate response.

How rich is Dina Asher-Smith?

Here’s what’s actually known: her income comes from prize money and endorsement contracts, and the contract figures are not public (CivicPost, records and net worth analysis). Net worth estimates therefore vary — most land between roughly $1 million and $5 million.

Net worth estimates

• Estimates range from roughly $1 million to $5 million depending on the source (CivicPost)
• No official net worth figure has been disclosed by Asher-Smith or her sponsors
• Prize money and endorsements both contribute, but the split is unknown

The range matters more than the precise number. Asher-Smith’s earnings combine global sponsorship with championship prize money — and because neither is published, any exact figure is an estimate, not a fact.

Endorsements

• Nike: global sportswear partner (CivicPost)
• Lucozade: long-standing UK sports-drink partnership (CivicPost)
• Other brand deals exist but aren’t itemized in public sources

Endorsements are the engine of sprint earnings. Nike doesn’t publish the value of her contract, and neither does she — which is the main reason any net worth number for a sprinter comes with the word ‘estimated’ attached.

The takeaway: treat every net worth figure as a ballpark, not a bank statement. The reliable part of the financial story is the source of the income — medals, sponsorships and race prizes — not the exact balance.

Are Dina Asher-Smith and Daryll Neita friends?

Yes — and the friendship is part of the training setup. Asher-Smith and Daryll Neita train together under coach John Blackie, and both have talked openly about what the partnership means.

Training partnership

• Same training group, coached by John Blackie
• Regular training partners in the sprint group
• In the London head-to-head at the UK Athletics Championships, Neita finished third in 22.30, behind Hunt (22.14) and Asher-Smith (22.14) (Athletics Weekly, specialist athletics magazine)

Training together doesn’t soften the competition. In that London race, Neita ran 22.30 in the same race where Asher-Smith edged Hunt for the win, with both timed at 22.14 (Athletics Weekly). That’s the healthy version of rivalry: teammates in training, opponents on the start line.

Public interactions

• Both have discussed their friendship in interviews
• The public tone between them is consistently supportive

For a sport that reads as relentlessly individual, the warmth between them is visible. They’ve spoken about being close friends, and the public record of their races shows a rivalry that stays on the track.

Why it matters: a training group that produces 22.14 and 22.30 in the same national final is doing something right. The friendship makes the success easier to share — and harder to ignore.

The public record has a clear answer on the question that matters most: Dina Asher-Smith is the fastest British woman on record, with the 100m and 200m national records to prove it. The biography searches — ethnicity, marriage, net worth — come back thinner, and the honest answers there are the careful ones. For Amy Hunt, the implication is clear: close the 0.20-second gap in the 200m, or watch the British record stay with Asher-Smith for another season.

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