Tia Jones

Tia Jones
Personal information
Nationality American
Born (2000-08-08) 8 August 2000
Sport
Sport Track and field
Event(s) 100 m hurdles

Tia Jones (born September 8, 2000) is an American track and field and athlete who competes in hurdling and sprinting events

Jones has been named USA Track & Field's Athlete of the Week after winning the 13-14 girl'’ 100 m and 200 m hurdles and setting national and Junior Olympic records in both events at the USATF National Junior Olympic Track & Field Championships on July 28, 2013.

She won the 100-meter hurdles at the 2016 USA Junior Championships in a time of 12.84 seconds, which equalled Aliuska Lopez's world junior record dating from 1987. It was the best ever time set by a 15-year-old athletes.[1]

Personal bests

Event Time (sec) Venue Date
Outdoor events
100m 11.98 Rock Hill, SC 06 JUL 2014
200m 23.81 Greensboro, NC 25 JUL 2013
100 m hurdles 12.84 Clovis (Veteran's Memorial), CA 25 JUN 2016
400 m hurdles 13.40 Rock Hill, SC 06 JUL 2014
Indoor events
60 m hurdles 8.50 Birmingham, AL 14 FEB 2016

References

  1. Ramsak, Bob (2016-06-27). Jones, McLaughlin, Hill and Norman impress at US Junior Championships. IAAF. Retrieved on 2016-07-16.
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