Jason Joseph

{{Infobox sportsperson

| name = Jason Joseph

| image = Jason Joseph Istanbul 2023.png

| image_size = 260

| caption = Joseph at the 2023 European Indoor Championships

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1998|10|11|df=y}}

| birth_place = Basel, Switzerland

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| height =

| weight =

| country = Switzerland

| sport = Athletics

| event = 110 m hurdles, 60 m hurdles

| education =

| club = LC Therwil{{cite web|url=https://www.basellandschaftlichezeitung.ch/sport/basel/starker-nachwuchs-ist-jason-joseph-auf-dem-weg-zur-weltklasse-131304432|title=Starker Nachwuchs: Ist Jason Joseph auf dem Weg zur Weltklasse?|last=Spriessler-Brander|first=Rolf|date=7 May 2017|publisher=Basellandschaftliche Zeitung|language=German|accessdate=7 March 2018}}

| coach = Claudine Müller

| pb = 60 m hurdles: 7.41 (Istanbul 2023) {{AthAbbr|NR}}
110 m hurdles: 13.08 (Zürich 2023) {{AthAbbr|NR}}

| medaltemplates = {{MedalCountry|{{SWI}}}}

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Jason Joseph (born 11 October 1998) is a Swiss athlete specialising in the sprint hurdles. He won a gold medal in the 60 metres hurdles at the 2023 European Indoor Championships.{{World Athletics}} He has been the national champion in the 110 metres hurdles ever since 2019, earning the title consecutively five times in a row, and holds national records in both events. He also reached the semi-finals of the 2020 Olympics.

Early life

Jason Joseph was born on 11 October 1998 in Basel, Switzerland to a Caribbean-Swiss family. Initially, he showed interest in sports such as football, breakdancing, and martial arts, as opposed to athletics. He began athletics at age 11 and it started to grow on him slowly, over the years, as time passed.{{Cite web |date=2021-07-09 |title=The Person - Jason Joseph |url=https://jasonjoseph.ch/en/the-person/ |access-date=2023-10-01 |website=jasonjoseph.ch |language=en-GB}}

Career

He represented his country at the 2018 World Indoor Championships without advancing from the first round. Earlier he won a gold medal at the 2017 European U20 Championships. Prior to 2023: His personal bests are 13.12 seconds in the 110 metres hurdles (+0.7 m/s, La Chaux-de-Fonds 2021) and 7.56 seconds in the 60 metres hurdles (St.Gallen 2019).

March 2023 he won the European Athletics Indoor Championships in 7.41 for a new PB.european-athletics.com 5 Mar 2023.[https://www.european-athletics.com/news/hurske-caps-sparkling-indoor-campaign-with-storming-60m-hurdles-victory-in-istanbul//] Retrieved 6 Mar 2023

Achievements

=International competitions=

{{AchievementTable\|Event=yes\|Time=yes}}
colspan="7"\|Representing {{SUI}}
2017 \|European U20 Championships \|Grosseto, Italy \|bgcolor=gold\|1st \|110 m hurdles (99.0 cm) \|13.41 \|
rowspan=2\|2018 \|World Indoor Championships \|Birmingham, United Kingdom \|30th (h) \|60 m hurdles \|7.89 \|
European Championships \|Berlin, Germany \|12th (sf) \|110 m hurdles \|13.53 \|
rowspan=2\|2019 \|European U23 Championships \|Gävle, Sweden \|bgcolor=gold\|1st \|110 m hurdles \|13.45 \|
World Championships \|Doha, Qatar \|13th (sf) \|110 m hurdles \|13.53 \|
2021 \|Olympic Games \|Tokyo, Japan \|14th (sf) \|110 m hurdles \|13.46 \|
rowspan=2\|2022 \|World Championships \|Eugene, United States \|23rd (sf) \|110 m hurdles \|13.67 \|
European Championships \|Munich, Germany \|4th \|110 m hurdles \|13.35 \|
rowspan=3\|2023 \|European Indoor Championships \|Istanbul, Turkey \|bgcolor=gold\|1st \|60 m hurdles \|7.41 \|{{AthAbbr\|EL}} {{AthAbbr\|NR}}
2023 European Athletics Team Championships First Division \|Chorzów, Poland \|bgcolor=gold\|1st \|110 m hurdles \|13.12 \|{{AthAbbr\|CR}}
World Championships \|Budapest, Hungary \|7th \|110 m hurdles \|13.28 \|
rowspan=3\|2024 \|World Indoor Championships \|Glasgow, United Kingdom \|21st (sf) \|60 m hurdles \|7.81 \|
European Championships \|Rome, Italy \|bgcolor=cc9966\|3rd \|110 m hurdles \|13.43 \|
Olympic Games \|Paris, France \|18th (sf) \|110 m hurdles \|13.43 \|
2025 \|European Indoor Championships \|Apeldoorn, Netherlands \|13th (sf) \|60 m hurdles \|7.70 \|

colspan="7"|Representing {{SUI}}

2017

|European U20 Championships

|Grosseto, Italy

|bgcolor=gold|1st

|110 m hurdles (99.0 cm)

|13.41

rowspan=2|2018

|World Indoor Championships

|Birmingham, United Kingdom

|30th (h)

|60 m hurdles