Yasmin Miller
{{Short description|British track and field athlete (born 1995)}}
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| name = Yasmin Miller
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| nationality = British
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| citizenship = United Kingdom
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1995|5|24|df=y}}
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|hometown= Derby, England
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| education = London South Bank University
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{{Medal|Sport|Women's athletics}}
{{Medal|Competition|European Athletics Junior Championships}}
{{Medal|Gold|2013 Rieti|100 m hurdles}}
{{Medal|Country|{{ENG}}}}
{{Medal|Competition|Commonwealth Youth Games}}
{{Medal|Gold|2011 Douglas|100 m hurdles}}
{{Medal|Gold|2011 Douglas|4 × 100 m relay}}
{{Medal|Competition|British Indoor Athletics Championships}}
{{Medal|Bronze|2013 Sheffield|60 m hurdles}}
{{Medal|Bronze|2015 Sheffield|60 m hurdles}}
{{Medal|Silver|2018 Birmingham|60 m hurdles}}
{{Medal|Gold|2020 Glasgow|60 m hurdles}}
{{Medal|Competition|British Athletics Championships}}
{{Medal|Silver|2017 Birmingham|100 m hurdles}}
{{Medal|Bronze|2019 Birmingham|100 m hurdles}}
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Yasmin Miller (born 24 May 1995) is a British track and field athlete who has competed in sprint and hurdles events. She competed in the 100 metres hurdles for Great Britain at the age of 16 at the 2011 World Youth Championships in Athletics. She won the same event at that year's Commonwealth Youth Games and was also a member of the winning 4 × 100 metres relay team. She repeated the latter success in the 2013 European Athletics Junior Championships. Miller has enjoyed some success at national-level hurdling, winning two bronze, a silver and gold in the 60 metres hurdles at the British Indoor Athletics Championships and a silver and a bronze in the 100 m hurdles at the British Athletics Championships.
Career
= Youth career =
Miller was born on 24 May 1995.{{cite web |title=Yasmin Miller Profile |url=https://www.worldathletics.org/athletes/great-britain-ni/yasmin-miller-14360668 |website=World Athletics |access-date=13 December 2021}} She attended school in Derbyshire.{{cite news |title=DIS athletes among winners at DSSA sports awards |url=https://issuu.com/nikkies/docs/dis_update_issue_4_magazine_online_ |access-date=13 December 2021 |work=Derbyshire Institute of Sport |date=November 2013 |language=en}} At the age of 16 she competed for Great Britain at the 2011 World Youth Championships in Athletics in Lille, France. She failed to progress from the semi-finals in the 100 m hurdles event. In September of that year Miller won gold in the same event at the 2011 Commonwealth Youth Games.{{cite web |title=Commonwealth Youth Games Results - Isle of Man 2011 {{!}} Sports {{!}} Athletics 100 m Hurdles Women |url=http://www.cyg2011results.com/Sports/ATHLETICS/default.aspx?SportID=31&EventID=374 |publisher=Isle of Man 2011 Commonwealth Youth Games |access-date=13 December 2021}} In the same competition she won gold in the 4 × 100 m relay with Dina Asher-Smith, Sophie Papps and Jazmin Sawyers.{{cite web |title=Commonwealth Youth Games Results - Isle of Man 2011 {{!}} Sports {{!}} Athletics : 4 x 100 m Relay Women |url=http://www.cyg2011results.com/Sports/ATHLETICS/default.aspx?SportID=31&EventID=382 |publisher=Isle of Man 2011 Commonwealth Youth Games |access-date=13 December 2021}}
Miller was part of the gold medal–winning British team in the 4 × 100 m relay at the 2013 European Athletics Junior Championships in Rieti, Italy, alongside Asher-Smith, Steffi Wilson and Desiree Henry.{{cite news |title=Who is British Olympian Dina Asher-Smith? |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/olympics/dina-asher-smith-injury-relay-200 m-b1897513.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220507/https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/olympics/dina-asher-smith-injury-relay-200 m-b1897513.html |archive-date=7 May 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |access-date=13 December 2021 |work=The Independent |date=5 August 2021 |language=en}}{{cbignore}} Miller also competed in the 100 m hurdles at the same event but did not progress beyond the heats. That year she was named sportsperson of the year at the 2013 Derbyshire Schools' Sports Association awards. Miller came fourth in the 100 m hurdles at the 2014 World Junior Championships in Athletics in Eugene, Oregon, US; in the same year she won gold in the England Athletics under 20s 100 m hurdles.{{cite news |last1=Hill |first1=Brian |title=Athletics: Katie Kirk sets a new best to claim English title |url=https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/athletics-katie-kirk-sets-a-new-best-to-claim-english-title-30374768.html |access-date=13 December 2021 |work=Belfast Telegraph |date=22 June 2014}} Miller competed in the 100 m hurdles at the 2015 European Athletics U23 Championships in Tallinn, Estonia, but did not progress beyond the heats. She placed fourth in the 100 metres hurdles at the 2017 European Athletics U23 Championships at Bydgoszcz, Poland.
Miller studied law at the London South Bank University, during which time she lived in Canada Water. Miller represented the university at the British Universities and Colleges Sport Nationals. At the 2017 indoors event she set a new competition record in the 60 m hurdles semi-final but came second in the final by 0.01 seconds. Later that year, in the outdoor event, she won the 100 m hurdles final. In September 2017 Miller was due to return to the university to study for a Master of Laws degree in international commercial law.{{cite web |title=Balancing books and BUCS: LSBU's gold-medal winning law student |url=https://www.lsbu.ac.uk/about-us/news/balancing-books-and-bucs |website=London South Bank University |access-date=13 December 2021 |language=English |date=4 July 2017}}
= Senior career =
Miller competed as a senior at the 2013 British Indoor Athletics Championships, placing third in the 60 m hurdles.{{cite web |title=British Athletics European Trials & UK Championships Sheffield 9-10 Feb 13 Results |url=https://www.thepowerof10.info/results/results.aspx?meetingid=73941&pagenum=2#60H |publisher=Power of 10 |access-date=13 December 2021}} She repeated this position at the 2015 British Indoor Athletics Championships.{{cite web |title=Sainsbury's Indoor British Championships Sheffield 14-15 Feb 15 Results |url=https://www.thepowerof10.info/results/results.aspx?meetingid=126294&pagenum=2#60HW |publisher=Power of 10}} In the 2017 British Athletics Championships she came second in the 100 m hurdles.{{cite web |title=British Championships Birmingham 1-2 Jul 17 Results |url=https://www.thepowerof10.info/results/results.aspx?meetingid=194571&pagenum=2#100HW |publisher=Power of 10 |access-date=13 December 2021}}
Miller missed out on selection for the 2018 Commonwealth Games in 2017 by 0.01 seconds, running the 60 m hurdles in 8.16, when a time of 8.15 was required. In 2021 she described the incident as the "rock-bottom" of her athletics career. She afterwards saw a sports psychologist.{{cite web |title=Hello Happiness: Resolve |url=https://player.fm/series/the-wellcome-collection-podcast/hello-happiness-resolve |website=Player FM |publisher=Wellcome Collection |access-date=13 December 2021 |language=en}} In the 2017 England Athletics Senior Track & Field Championships Miller won first place in the 100 m hurdles.{{cite news |title=Mollie Courtney Claims England Championships Bronze |url=https://athleticsni.org/News/Athletics-NI-News/Mollie-Courtney-Claims-England-Championships-Bronze |access-date=13 December 2021 |work=Athletics Northern Ireland |date=31 July 2017}} She placed second in the 60 m hurdles at the 2018 British Indoor Athletics Championships and third in the 100 m hurdles at the 2019 British Athletics Championships.{{cite web |title=British Athletics Championships Birmingham 17-18 Feb 18 Results |url=https://www.thepowerof10.info/results/results.aspx?meetingid=224240&pagenum=2#60H |publisher=Power of 10 |access-date=13 December 2021}}{{cite web |title=British Championships Birmingham 24-25 Aug 19 Results |url=https://www.thepowerof10.info/results/results.aspx?meetingid=287414&pagenum=2#100HW |publisher=Power of 10 |access-date=13 December 2021}}
Miller won first place in the 60 m hurdles at the 2020 British Indoor Athletics Championships.{{cite news |title=Miller & King win 60 m hurdle golds |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/av/athletics/51601085 |access-date=13 December 2021 |work=BBC Sport |date=22 February 2020}}{{cite web |title=Amy Hunt sprints into senior spotlight with UK 60 m win |url=https://athleticsweekly.com/event-news/amy-hunt-senior-spotlight-60 m-win-1039928233/ |website=Athletics Weekly |access-date=13 December 2021 |date=22 February 2020}} Following the 2020 COVID-19 lockdown in the United Kingdom Miller was unable to train with her coach. She instead trained in the park opposite her flat in London, with local children following and copying her running. Miller's boyfriend helped by timing her runs.{{cite news |title=Taking it in her stride |url=https://issuu.com/nikkies/docs/dis_update_issue_8_magazine_oct_201 |access-date=13 December 2021 |work=Derbyshire Institute of Sport magazine, issue eight |issue=8 |date=October 2015 |language=en}}