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American track and field athlete
Tia Jones
Tia Jones in 2016
Nationality American Born (2000-09-08 ) 8 September 2000 (age 24) Sport Track and field Event 100 m hurdles
Tia Jones (born September 8, 2000) is an American track and field athlete who competes in hurdling and sprinting events. She is engaged to NFL player Xavier Worthy .
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 equaled Aliuska López 's world junior record dating from 1987. It was the best ever time set by a 15-year-old athlete.[ 1]
Event
Time (sec )
Venue
Date
Outdoor events
100m 12.11
Winter Park, Florida
07 JUL 2013
200m 23.81
Greensboro, North Carolina
25 JUL 2013
100 m hurdles 12.38
Brussels, Belgium
02 SEP 2022
Indoor events
60 m hurdles 7.67
Albuquerque, New Mexico
16 FEB 2024
1986 : United States (Guidry , Smith , Liles , Malone )1988 : East Germany (Breuer , Krabbe , Dietz , Henke )1990 : Jamaica (Russell , Campbell , Frazer , Mitchell )1992 : Jamaica (Russell , Frazer , Christie , Mitchell , Langley *)1994 : Jamaica (Robinson , Langley , Richards , Walker , Dowdie *)1996 : United States (Anderson , White , Wright , Perry )1998 : United States (Williams , Soley , Combs , Jones , Withers *)2000 : Germany (Kaufmann , Schielke , Grötzinger , Habel )2002 : Jamaica (Simpson , Stewart , McLaughlin , Facey , Palmer *)2004 : United States (Owens , Broaddus , Baldwin , Solomon , Tyson *)2006 : United States (Tarmoh , Anderson , Olear , Mayo , Wilson *)2008 : United States (Tarmoh , Mahan , Glenn , Townsend )2010 : United States (Kendrick , Pinckney , Bryant , Collier )2012 : United States (Snow , Bryant , Madu , Sanders , Davis-White *)2014 : United States (Daniels , Washington , Martin , Whitney , Westbrook *)2016 : United States (Jones , Bennett , Harris , Hill , Irby *)2018 : Germany (Dönicke , Schwab , Junk , Uphoff , Kwadwo *)2021 : Jamaica (Cole , Clayton , Hill , Clayton )2022 : Jamaica (Cole , Clayton , Hill , Clayton , James *)2024 : Jamaica (Douglas , Baker , Campbell , Reid , Dockery *)
1927–1979Amateur Athletic Union 1980–1992The Athletics Congress 1993–presentUSA Track & Field Notes * Distances have varied as follows: 60 yards hurdles (1965-86), 55 m hurdles (1987-90), 50 m hurdles (1933-41, 1948), 50 yards hurdles (1928-32, 1945-46, 1949-54, 1957-58, 1964), 80 m hurdles (1955), 70 yards hurdles (1956, 1959-63). From 1965-68, there were 4 hurdles instead of 5 hurdles other years.
