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Athlete Jazmin Sawyers has said she felt “incredibly lucky” to have had the support of her home city after winning a gold medal for England at the Commonwealth Games.<\/b><\/p>\n
The 32-year-old from Stoke-on-Trent came out on top in the women’s long jump on Saturday with a distance of 6.93m, ahead of Nigeria’s Ruth Usoro and Brooke Buschkuehl of Australia.<\/p>\n
Her success in Glasgow came after multiple setbacks in her career, including a serious injury which forced her to miss the 2024 Olympics.<\/p>\n
Despite the previous disappointments, Sawyers said she always tried to keep believing in herself and praised her home city for getting behind her.<\/p>\n
“I’ve always felt it\u2026 some athletes talk about how you have to go it alone but it was never all me. I never had to do all this alone,” she told BBC Radio Stoke.<\/p>\n
“I always felt like I had the support of thousands and thousands of people because I felt like everyone in the area has been backing me the entire time.<\/p>\n
“One of the beautiful things about Stoke is that when somebody says ‘I’m going after something’ everyone goes ‘go on then, we all reckon you can have a good go at that’.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n