Six-time British Champion long jumper Jazmin Sawyers has announced that she will miss the upcoming Olympics in Paris due to a ruptured right Achilles.
She said in a post to Instagram, “It’s never fun to have to share news like this. I had an accident in training and suffered a full rupture of my right Achilles (my takeoff leg). I’ve had surgery to repair it and it was successful, so the journey to recover has started!”
Sawyers is one of Great Britain’s most decorated athletes, having earned medals in international competition going back to 2011 at the Commonwealth Youth Games, and most recently, the gold medal in the long jump at the 2023 European Indoor Championships. She has made two Olympic Teams in her career, finishing 8th in both Rio (2016) and Tokyo (2021) in the long jump competition.
