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Ackelia Smith
Personal information
Nationality	Jamaican
Born	5 February 2002 (age 22)
Sport
Sport	Track and field
Event(s)	Long jump, triple jump
College team	Texas Longhorns
Achievements and titles
Personal bests	Long jump: 7.08 m (Norman, 2023); Triple jump: 14.54 m (Austin, 2023);
Medal record
Women's athletics
Representing Jamaica
Carifta Games ; (U18)

Ackelia Smith (born 5 February 2002) is a Jamaican track and field athlete who competes internationally in both the long jump and the triple jump.

Career

In June 2022, Smith won the Jamaican national championship in long jump with a jump of 6.56 metres and finished runner-up in the triple jump with a distance of 13.93 metres. Prior to that, in the same month representing the University of Texas she had reached the finals of the NCAA championships in both events finishing eighth in the long jump (6.34 m) and fourth in the triple jump (13.79 m). Selected for the 2022 World Athletics Championships in the triple jump, Smith scored a big personal best of 14.36 metres to qualify for the final on her senior major championship debut.^[1] In the final Smith jumped 13.90 metres to finish in 12th place. Smith was selected for the long jump at the 2022 Commonwealth Games held in Birmingham, England and qualified for the final with a jump of 6.35 metres.^[2]

Smith was selected for the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest in both the triple jump and the long jump.^[3] She did not qualify for the final in the triple jump. In the women's long jump, she finished eleventh in the final.^[4]

She won both the long jump and the triple jump at the NCAA Championships in Eugene, Oregon in June 2024.^[5] That month, she won the Jamaican national championships long jump title in Kingston, Jamaica.^[6] In July 2024, she was officially selected in the long jump and the triple jump for the Jamaican team to compete at the 2024 Paris Olympics.^[7] She finished seventh overall in the triple jump event and eighth overall in the long jump event at the 2024 Olympic Games.^[8]^[9]