Yasmin Miller
Miller in 2015
Personal information
NationalityBritish
CitizenshipUnited Kingdom
Born (1995-05-24) 24 May 1995
Home townDerby, England
EducationLondon South Bank University
Medal record
Representing  Great Britain
Women's athletics
European Athletics Junior Championships
Gold medal – first place2013 Rieti100 m hurdles
Representing  England
Commonwealth Youth Games
Gold medal – first place2011 Douglas100 m hurdles
Gold medal – first place2011 Douglas4 × 100 m relay
British Indoor Athletics Championships
Bronze medal – third place2013 Sheffield60 m hurdles
Bronze medal – third place2015 Sheffield60 m hurdles
Silver medal – second place2018 Birmingham60 m hurdles
Gold medal – first place2020 Glasgow60 m hurdles
British Athletics Championships
Silver medal – second place2017 Birmingham100 m hurdles
Bronze medal – third place2019 Birmingham100 m hurdles

Yasmin Miller (born 24 May 1995) is a British track and field athlete who has competed in sprint and hurdles events. She competed in the 100 metres hurdles for Great Britain at the age of 16 at the 2011 World Youth Championships in Athletics. She won the same event at that year's Commonwealth Youth Games and was also a member of the winning 4 × 100 metres relay team. She repeated the latter success in the 2013 European Athletics Junior Championships. Miller has enjoyed some success at national-level hurdling, winning two bronze, a silver and gold in the 60 metres hurdles at the British Indoor Athletics Championships and a silver and a bronze in the 100 m hurdles at the British Athletics Championships.

Career

Youth career

Miller was born on 24 May 1995.[1] She attended school in Derbyshire.[2] At the age of 16 she competed for Great Britain at the 2011 World Youth Championships in Athletics in Lille, France. She failed to progress from the semi-finals in the 100 m hurdles event.[1] In September of that year Miller won gold in the same event at the 2011 Commonwealth Youth Games.[3] In the same competition she won gold in the 4 × 100 m relay with Dina Asher-Smith, Sophie Papps and Jazmin Sawyers.[4]

Miller was part of the gold medal–winning British team in the 4 × 100 m relay at the 2013 European Athletics Junior Championships in Rieti, Italy, alongside Asher-Smith, Steffi Wilson and Desiree Henry.[1][5] Miller also competed in the 100 m hurdles at the same event but did not progress beyond the heats.[1] That year she was named sportsperson of the year at the 2013 Derbyshire Schools' Sports Association awards.[2] Miller came fourth in the 100 m hurdles at the 2014 World Junior Championships in Athletics in Eugene, Oregon, US; in the same year she won gold in the England Athletics under 20s 100 m hurdles.[6][1] Miller competed in the 100 m hurdles at the 2015 European Athletics U23 Championships in Tallinn, Estonia, but did not progress beyond the heats. She placed fourth in the 100 metres hurdles at the 2017 European Athletics U23 Championships at Bydgoszcz, Poland.[1]

Miller studied law at the London South Bank University, during which time she lived in Canada Water. Miller represented the university at the British Universities and Colleges Sport Nationals. At the 2017 indoors event she set a new competition record in the 60 m hurdles semi-final but came second in the final by 0.01 seconds. Later that year, in the outdoor event, she won the 100 m hurdles final. In September 2017 Miller was due to return to the university to study for a Master of Laws degree in international commercial law.[7]

Senior career

Miller competed as a senior at the 2013 British Indoor Athletics Championships, placing third in the 60 m hurdles.[8] She repeated this position at the 2015 British Indoor Athletics Championships.[9] In the 2017 British Athletics Championships she came second in the 100 m hurdles.[10]

Miller missed out on selection for the 2018 Commonwealth Games in 2017 by 0.01 seconds, running the 60 m hurdles in 8.16, when a time of 8.15 was required. In 2021 she described the incident as the "rock-bottom" of her athletics career. She afterwards saw a sports psychologist.[11] In the 2017 England Athletics Senior Track & Field Championships Miller won first place in the 100 m hurdles.[12] She placed second in the 60 m hurdles at the 2018 British Indoor Athletics Championships and third in the 100 m hurdles at the 2019 British Athletics Championships.[13][14]

Miller won first place in the 60 m hurdles at the 2020 British Indoor Athletics Championships.[15][16] Following the 2020 COVID-19 lockdown in the United Kingdom Miller was unable to train with her coach. She instead trained in the park opposite her flat in London, with local children following and copying her running.[11] Miller's boyfriend helped by timing her runs.[11][17]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Yasmin Miller Profile". World Athletics. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
  2. 1 2 "DIS athletes among winners at DSSA sports awards". Derbyshire Institute of Sport. November 2013. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
  3. ↑ "Commonwealth Youth Games Results - Isle of Man 2011 | Sports | Athletics 100 m Hurdles Women". Isle of Man 2011 Commonwealth Youth Games. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
  4. ↑ "Commonwealth Youth Games Results - Isle of Man 2011 | Sports | Athletics : 4 x 100 m Relay Women". Isle of Man 2011 Commonwealth Youth Games. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
  5. ↑ "Who is British Olympian Dina Asher-Smith?". The Independent. 5 August 2021. Archived from the original on 7 May 2022. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
  6. ↑ Hill, Brian (22 June 2014). "Athletics: Katie Kirk sets a new best to claim English title". Belfast Telegraph. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
  7. ↑ "Balancing books and BUCS: LSBU's gold-medal winning law student". London South Bank University. 4 July 2017. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
  8. ↑ "British Athletics European Trials & UK Championships Sheffield 9-10 Feb 13 Results". Power of 10. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
  9. ↑ "Sainsbury's Indoor British Championships Sheffield 14-15 Feb 15 Results". Power of 10.
  10. ↑ "British Championships Birmingham 1-2 Jul 17 Results". Power of 10. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
  11. 1 2 3 "Hello Happiness: Resolve". Player FM. Wellcome Collection. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
  12. ↑ "Mollie Courtney Claims England Championships Bronze". Athletics Northern Ireland. 31 July 2017. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
  13. ↑ "British Athletics Championships Birmingham 17-18 Feb 18 Results". Power of 10. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
  14. ↑ "British Championships Birmingham 24-25 Aug 19 Results". Power of 10. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
  15. ↑ "Miller & King win 60 m hurdle golds". BBC Sport. 22 February 2020. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
  16. ↑ "Amy Hunt sprints into senior spotlight with UK 60 m win". Athletics Weekly. 22 February 2020. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
  17. ↑ "Taking it in her stride". Derbyshire Institute of Sport magazine, issue eight. No. 8. October 2015. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
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