There’s a moment in every young sprinter’s life when a time becomes a name. For Dina Asher-Smith, that moment arrived in 2015, when she became the first British woman to run 100m in under…
There’s a moment in every young sprinter’s life when a time becomes a name. For Dina Asher-Smith, that moment arrived in 2015, when she became the first British woman to run 100m in under…
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Every so often a sprinter comes along who changes what a nation thinks is possible on the track. For Britain, that sprinter…
Ask a British athletics fan to name the fastest woman the country has produced, and the answer comes quickly: Dina Asher-Smith. The…
Any British sprint conversation worth having eventually lands on the same question: who owns the country’s fastest times, and who is coming…
Some athletes inherit a route; Dina Asher-Smith had to invent one. She sprinted past every British woman before her — first to…
Few British sprinters have carried a nation’s expectations as openly as Dina Asher-Smith — and few have answered with records. Her 100m…
Every four years, the conversation about British sprinting starts with one question: can anyone catch the women at the top of the…
Ask a British athletics fan who the country’s fastest woman is, and the answer comes fast: Dina Asher-Smith, the south London sprinter…
Most British sprint fans can tell you the number before they can tell you the story: 10.83, Dina Asher-Smith’s 100m personal best…
Ask anyone who follows British athletics to name the woman leading the sprint squad and the answer is immediate: Dina Asher-Smith. She…
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…
A sprint finish in 2019 changed how Britain sees its female sprinters: Dina Asher-Smith won the 200m world title in 21.88 seconds,…
There aren’t many athletes who can say they went from a final-year history seminar to a national sprint record in the same…
You probably know her as the woman who made British sprinting exciting again, and Dina Asher-Smith, born in London on 4 December…
There’s a moment every British athletics fan remembers: watching Dina Asher-Smith cross the line in Doha in 2019, having just become the…
British sprinting has a habit of producing one name you learn at the relay medal ceremony, then keep following through the individual…
Every few years, British athletics produces someone who makes the rest of the field look like they are running a different race.…