- Source: Tasa Jiya
Tasa Jiya (Dutch: [ˈtaːsaː ˈdʑijaː]; born 16 September 1997) is a Dutch track and field athlete who competes as a sprinter. In 2023, she became the Dutch national champion over 200 metres. She won a bronze medal in the women's 4 x 100 metres relay at the 2024 European Athletics Championships.
Career
As a junior athlete, Jiya won nine national youth titles and in 2013 won gold in the 200 meters at the European Youth Olympic Festival. She had a career break after being an unused reserve for the Dutch relay team at the 2016 Olympic Games.
In 2021, after returning to athletics, Jiya ran a new personal best time in the 100 metres of 11.58 seconds, and a new personal best time of 23.19 seconds in the 200 meters at a gala in Grootebroek. In 2023, she became the Dutch national champion over 200 metres, in a field which included Femke Bol. She won in a new personal best time of 22.77 seconds.
She was selected for the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest in August 2023, where she qualified for the semi finals of the 200 metres where she ran a new personal best of 22.67 seconds.
She ran as part of the Dutch 4x100m relay team which qualified for the 2024 Paris Olympics at the 2024 World Relays Championships in Nassau, Bahamas. The following month she finished sixth in the 200m at the 2024 BAUHAUS-galan Diamond League event in Stockholm.
Competing over 200 metres at the 2024 European Championships in Rome in June 2024, she finished fifth in the final having run 22.90 seconds. Later on in the championships, she won a bronze medal running the anchor leg for the Dutch team in the 4 x 100 metres relay.
In June 2024, she won the Dutch national 200 meters title in Hengelo in a personal best 22.62 seconds. She competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris over 200 metres, reaching the semi-finals.
Personal life
She gave birth to a daughter, Amáru, in 2018.
Personal bests
Information from her World Athletics profile unless otherwise noted.
= Individual events
== Team events
=Competition results
= International competitions
=References
External links
Tasa Jiya at World Athletics
Tasa Jiya at the Royal Dutch Athletics Federation (in Dutch)
Tasa Jiya at Olympics.com
Tasa Jiya at TeamNL (archive) (in Dutch)
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Tasa Jiya
- Jiya
- Athletics at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Women's 200 metres
- Athletics at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Women's 4 × 100 metres relay
- 2023 World Athletics Championships – Women's 4 × 100 metres relay
- Netherlands at the 2024 Summer Olympics
- 2023 World Athletics Championships – Women's 200 metres
- 2024 European Athletics Championships
- Lieke Klaver
- 2024 Bislett Games
