Who Is Tina Clayton?

Sports Career of Tina Clayton | Tina Clayton Biography

Tina Clayton, and her twin sister, Tia Clayton, have been dubbed “the world’s fastest twins.” The pair of Jamaican sisters has already surged to the top of the 100–meter top lists, and Tina Clayton won silver in the 100-meter at the recent Tokyo World Championships.

Tina Clayton ran 12.12 seconds in the 100-meter when she was 12 years old, one of the fastest times ever recorded at that age. Two years later, she recorded the fastest time of all-time by a girl age 14 or younger when she ran 11.27 seconds in Kingston at the Jamaican School Championships.

Most of Clayton’s 2020 season was disrupted due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but she came back in 2021 to run 11.25 seconds at the Jamaican U20 Championships.

This would also be the season when she started to see international success. In July 2021, she won the NACAC U18 Championships in Costa Rica with a new personal best of 11.17 seconds. She followed this up by winning the U20 World Championships in Kenya the next month, running 11.09 seconds into a headwind.  She also won gold in the 4 x 100-meter relay with her sister.

Clayton defended her title in both these events at the World U20 the next year in Cali, Colombia. Her winning time of 10.95 seconds in the 100-meter was the fastest ever run by a 17-year-old.

Clayton continued dominating the 100-meter sprint in Jamaica the next season and also won the
5° Meeting Brazzale in Italy.

In 2024, she took a step back and missed out on the Olympic Games, finishing fourth in her semi-final race at the Jamaican Championships and not advancing to the final. However, she regained form in 2025 and ran a new personal best of 10.81 seconds in the 100-meter to win the Jamaican Championships.

She took this momentum into the 2025 World Championships in Tokyo, running another personal best in the final with a time of 10.76 seconds, capturing silver. She also picked up another silver medal in the 4 x 100-meter relay with her sister and compatriots Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and Jonielle Smith.

Tina Clayton Personal Life and Other Facts

Tina has a twin sister, Tia, who is also a Jamaican sprinter. They captured silver together in the 4 x 100-meter relay at the 2025 World Athletics Championships.

Their mother also used to sprint at a national level when she was younger.

Tina Clayton attended Edwin Allen High School in Clarendon, Jamaica. She was a member of the Jamaican team that won bronze in the 4 x 100-meter relay at the U20 World Championships. They broke the World Record, but the record wasn’t ratified since only Serena Cole, one of the four members, wasn’t drug tested. It’s World Athletics’ policy for all four members to be tested for records to become official. 

Tina Clayton has raced her twin sister Tia Clayton 26 times, according to World Athletics (at the time of writing). Tina has won 17 of their 26 races.

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How Old Is Tina Clayton? | Tia and Tina Clayton Age

Tina Clayton and her twin sister are both 21 years old and were born on August 17, 2004.

Who Is Faster, Tia or Tina Clayton?

Tina Clayton holds the faster personal best in the 100-meter, clocking a legal 10.76 seconds, while Tia Clayton’s best is 10.82 seconds.

What Medals has Tina Clayton Won? 

Tina Clayton won the gold medal in the 100-meter at the U20 World Championships twice. She also won the gold medal twice in the 4 x 100-meter relay. She also has a silver medal in the 100-meter and 4 x 100-meter from the 2025 World Athletics Championships. She is the defending Jamaican 100-meter champion.