Sprint hurdles star Jasmine Camacho-Quinn was born on 21 August 1996 to James Quinn and María Milagros Camacho, who were both athletes at Baptist College (now Charleston Southern University). Her older brother, Robert Quinn, has made three NFL Pro Bowl appearances.
Milagros Camacho comes from Puerto Rico with her daughter opting to represent that country internationally.
Jasmine Camacho-Quinn: Golden redemption in Tokyo 2020
Camacho-Quinn went to the University of Kentucky and won her first NCAA 100m hurdles title in 2016. She then triumphed in the North America and Central American Under-23 Championships before making her Olympic debut in Rio while still a teenager.
After winning her heat, she looked good in the semi-finals before clattering the penultimate hurdle and running through the last before falling to the track in tears.
After injury wrecked her 2017 season, Camacho-Quinn gave notice of what she could do with a run of 12.40 seconds in May 2018 before claiming her second NCAA hurdles crown. In her first year as a professional, she enjoyed some success internationally but injury forced her out of a second successive World Championships.
Then came the pandemic before the Puerto Rican star established herself as the top hurdler in the world in 2021. She went to the delayed Tokyo 2020 Games as the favourite and, after "breaking down in tears" in a cafeteria as she remembered her Rio disappointment, secured Puerto Rico's second Olympic title four years after Monica Puig won women's tennis gold. Camacho-Quinn also became the first Puerto Rican woman to win a global athletics medal.
Jasmine Camacho-Quinn: Pioneering performances
At the 2022 World Championships in Eugene, Oregon, Camacho-Quinn added to her medal collection with bronze behind former college rival Tobi Amusan. In 2023, she eased to victory at the Central American and Caribbean Games before just missing out on gold at the Budapest World Championships.
Three-hundredths of a second separated the medallists with Camacho-Quinn one-hundredth behind Jamaica's Danielle Williams, and two-hundredths ahead of her old University of Kentucky training partner Keni Harrison.
Undeterred, she is targeting the defence of her Olympic title, telling Olympics.com, "I'm not nervous about Paris. We train with each other, we know who we are and what we're up against. It's motivation to go out there on the track. I'm just looking now to do my best."