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| Born | 1 September 2002 Oak Park, Michigan, U. S. | |||||||||||
| Sport | ||||||||||||
| Sport | Athletics | |||||||||||
| Event | Hurdles | |||||||||||
| Achievements and titles | ||||||||||||
| Personal best(s) | 60m hurdles: 7.97 (Indianapolis, 2025) 100m hurdles: 12.72 (Gainesville, 2024) | |||||||||||
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Aasia Laurencin (born 1 September 2002) is a Saint Lucian hurdler. [1]
She attended Oak Park High School, and trained at the Motor City Track Club in Michigan. Initially she was a high jumper, before switching to hurdles. She was a 12-time AAU All-American, three-time state champion in the 60m hurdles and an 18-time Michigan All-State honoree. [2]
She finished sixth at the 2024 NCAA Division I Indoor Track and Field Championships in the 60 metres hurdles, and sixth in the 100 metres hurdles at the 2024 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships. [2] [3]
Competing for the University of Michigan Wolverines in 2025, she set the national record for the 60m hurdles twice. [4] She lowered it to 8.04 seconds in February 2025, [5] before running 7.97 seconds at the Big Ten Championships. [6] She finished in sixth place of the 60 metres hurdles in the final of the 2025 NCAA Division I Indoor Track and Field Championships, held in Virginia Beach, Virginia. [7]
She was named as the sole representative in the Saint Lucian team for the 2025 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Nanjing in March 2025, where she qualified for the semi-finals of the 60 metres hurdles. [8] [9] She was a bronze medalist in the 100 metres hurdles at the 2025 NACAC Championships in Freeport, The Bahamas in 13.04 seconds (-1.1). [10] She subsequently competed at the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan. [11]
She is the granddaughter of former St Jude Hospital chief surgeon Denis Laurencin. She attended the University of Texas - Austin before becoming a grad student of sociology at the University of Michigan. [12] [2]
