Jasmine Camacho-Quinn

Jasmine Camacho-Quinn (born 21 August 1996) is a Stateside Puerto Rican track and field athlete who specializes in the 100 metres hurdles. At the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, she became the first Puerto Rican of Afro-Latino descent and the second person representing Puerto Rico to win a gold medal. In the semi-finals, Camacho-Quinn set her personal best and Olympic record of 12.26 seconds, which is tied for the tenth fastest time in history. She won a bronze medal at the 2022 World Athletics Championships and a silver medal at the 2023 World Athletics Championships. In the 2024 Paris Olympics, she won a bronze medal, her second one, becoming the only Puerto Rican to have won two Olympic medals.

Camacho-Quinn was a two-time individual NCAA Division I champion.

Career

In 2016, Camacho-Quinn won gold in the 100 m hurdles at the NCAA Division I Championships. She participated at the 2016 Rio Olympics in her specialty event, achieving 12.70 seconds in the heats, a time that would have secured her fifth place in the final. However, she was disqualified in the semi-finals after hitting a hurdle.

Camacho-Quinn set a new personal best of 12.58 s in finishing second at the 2017 NCAA Division I Championships. The following year, she returned to winning ways by finishing 1st at the 2018 NCAA Division I Championships.

In 2021, Camacho-Quinn won her first Diamond League at the Golden Gala with a new personal best time of 12.38 s. She won gold at the delayed 2020 Tokyo Olympics, having set an Olympic record in the semi-finals.

At the 2022 World Championships in Eugene, Oregon, she won bronze with a time of 12.23 sw finishing behind Tobi Amusan and Britany Anderson.

In 2023, Camacho-Quinn opened her season by winning the Doha Diamond League in a time of 12.48 s. Later that year, she won silver at the 2023 World Championships with a time of 12.44 s.

She competed at the 2024 Paris Olympics, winning bronze in the 100 m hurdles. On September 26, she won the first edition of the female-only Athlos track meet with a time of 12.36 s.

In September 2024, it was announced that she had signed up for the inaugural season of the Michael Johnson founded Grand Slam Track.

Personal life

Her parents are James Quinn, an African-American man, and María Milagros Camacho, a Puerto Rican woman. Both competed in athletics at Baptist College (now Charleston Southern University) in Charleston, South Carolina, with her father competing in hurdles and her mother as a sprint runner and long jumper. Camacho-Quinn's mother is from Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico, which made Camacho-Quinn eligible to represent Puerto Rico in international competitions, including in the Olympics. National Football League (NFL) player Robert Quinn is her brother. Jasmine graduated from Fort Dorchester High School, in North Charleston, South Carolina.

Identity

Born and raised in South Carolina, Camacho-Quinn decided later in life that she wanted to know more about her mother's side of the family, who live in Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico. She identifies as a Puerto Rican. In July 2021, she tweeted about her mother, "You see my mommy? The PUERTO RICAN woman that birthed me?" and stated "I am Puerto Rican" in a video posted by the Puerto Rican Olympic Committee.

Camacho-Quinn is the first Afro-Puerto Rican to win a gold medal. This was celebrated by social anthropologist Bárbara Abadía-Rexach, who stated, "Camacho-Quinn’s victory is a pioneering example for black girls on the island that shows them they can achieve whatever they set their minds to, despite the systemic barriers they will encounter due to their gender, race and ethnicity."

Achievements

All information taken from World Athletics profile unless otherwise noted.

International competitions

Wins

• Diamond League

100 metres hurdles wins, other events specified in parentheses

• 2021 (1): Rome Golden Gala in Florence (MR)
• 2022 (6): Eugene Prefontaine Classic, Rome (WL MR), Stockholm Bauhaus-Galan, Chorzów Kamila Skolimowska Memorial (MR), Lausanne Athletissima (MR), Brussels Memorial Van Damme (SB MR)
• 2023 (2): Doha Diamond League (SB), Lausanne Athletissima

Personal bests

Information from her World Athletics profile unless otherwise noted.

Individual events

Season's bests

Key:   Lifetime best (in bold)

American championships

Source:

See also

• List of Puerto Ricans
• List of Olympic medalists in athletics (women)
• 100 metres hurdles

References

External links

• Jasmine Camacho-Quinn at World Athletics
• Jasmine Camacho-Quinn at Diamond League
• Jasmine Camacho-Quinn at Olympics.com
• Jasmine Camacho-Quinn at Olympedia
• Jasmine Camacho-Quinn at InterSportStats
• Jasmine Camacho-Quinn on Instagram

Videos

• Jasmine Camacho-Quinn flies to OR in the women's 100m hurdles | Tokyo Olympics – via NBC Sports on YouTube