From The Voice to the Olympics! Singing sensation Jazmin Sawyers is adamant she sees herself on a medal podium at Paris 2024 after turning into British indoor lengthy bounce champion in Birmingham
- Jazmin Sawyers grew to become British indoor lengthy bounce champion, leaping 6.73m
- The former contestant on ITV’s The Voice desires to flip it into Olympic success
- Paris 2024 is a chance for Sawyers after eighth-placed finishes beforehand
Jazmin Sawyers hopes to hit the excessive notes on the Olympic stage subsequent summer season after the lengthy jumper-turned-singer grew to become British indoor champion on Sunday.
The 28-year-old is greatest recognized for showing on ITV’s The Voice in 2017, when she bought by means of her blind audition. But Sawyers nonetheless desires to be an enormous voice in athletics and believes she is able to successful a medal at Paris 2024, following eighth-place finishes in the lengthy bounce last at Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020.
‘I see myself on an Olympic podium,’ she mentioned after triumphing at the UK Athletics Indoor Championships in Birmingham on Sunday with a greatest bounce of 6.73metres. ‘A lot of people look at me and think, “She is someone who might scrape a medal at European level but is never going to be there at world level”.
‘But I am edging closer and closer towards the kind of distances that will get a medal at world level. Being this consistent indoors is a really good sign for me heading to outdoors.’
In the extra fast future, Sawyers is concentrating on a podium place at subsequent month’s European Indoor Championships in Istanbul to go along with the bronze she gained at the European outdoor final summer season.
Jazmin Sawyers grew to become British indoor lengthy bounce champion in Birmingham, leaping 6.73m
Sawyers was beforehand a contestant on ITV’s hit singing present The Voice again in 2017
Ellie Baker broke a 37-year-old report held by Zola Budd by successful the last day’s 1500m last
‘A medal is the minimum for me now to not walk away annoyed,’ she added. ‘Getting that medal last year after so long without one has really sparked that fire in me.’
On the last day of motion at the Utilita Arena, Ellie Baker broke Zola Budd’s 37-year-old championship report in successful the ladies’s 1500metres in a time of 4min 6.73secs. Neil Gourley beat George Mills – son of former England footballer Danny – in the males’s 1500m.
