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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.
Smith was selected for the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest in both the triple jump and the long jump. She did not qualify for the final in the triple jump. In the women's long jump, she finished eleventh in the final.
She won both the long jump and the triple jump at the NCAA Championships in Eugene, Oregon in June 2024. That month, she won the Jamaican national championships long jump title in Kingston, Jamaica. 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. She finished seventh overall in the triple jump event and eighth overall in the long jump event at the 2024 Olympic Games.
She won the long jump and finished runner-up in the triple jump at the 2025 Jamaican Athletics Championships in Kingston. She placed sixth in the long jump at the 2025 Prefontaine Classic on 5 July.
In September 2025, she competed at the 2025 World Championships in Tokyo, Japan, qualifying for the final and placing eighth overall. She also competed at the women's long jump at the championships without qualifying for the final.
target="_blank" rel="nofollow"> Ackelia Smith at the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics (archived)
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