Personal Bests - Jasmin Stowers

Published by IAAF on June 22, 2015

Jasmin Stowers has enjoyed a meteoric rise during the early part of the 2015 season and currently tops this year’s 100m hurdles world lists with the 12.35 she ran at the IAAF Diamond League meeting in Doha last month.

We find out a little more about the seventh-fastest 100m hurdler in history as the American answers our Personal Bests questions. 

Best friend in athletics

I’m new to the scene, but I guess I would say my training partner Cassandra Tate (400m hurdler and 2014 world indoor 4x400m gold medallist). 

We are good friend friends and at practise we always encourage each other to do well. If either of us have an issue with the start, or an issue between the hurdles, we always help each other out.

Greatest rival

Sharika Nelvis (the winner of the 100m hurdles at the IAAF Diamond League meetings in Rome and New York this summer). I say that because in college we were very close competitors and now as pros we are still close competitors. 

She won the 2014 NCAA Indoor 60m hurdles from lane one when she wasn’t expected to win and I knew from that point on she had the potential to be able to compete outdoors.