Jason Gardener

Jason Carl Gardener (born 18 September 1975 in Bath, Somerset, England) is a retired British sprint athlete, and former World Indoor Champion. Gardener was educated at Beechen Cliff School, Bath, where he now has a tutor group named after him. He is also a graduate of Bath Spa University

Athletics career

Gardener started his career at the World Junior Championships in 1994 where he placed second in the individual 100 m and bettered this to take his first gold medal as part of the 4 × 100 m relay team.

He took another silver, this time in the 60 m, at the European Indoor Championships of 1998 but was not chosen for the relay team which took gold.

In 1999 he took bronze at the World indoors in the 60 m, breaking the British record. and later that year saw him run 9.98 s breaking the 10 second barrier for the first time in the 100 m. He was also part of the national record breaking 4 × 100 m relay team along with Darren Campbell, Marlon Devonish, and Dwain Chambers that they set in Seville, Spain running 37.73 seconds.

2000 saw Gardener go one better in the European indoor 60 m taking gold as well as breaking the national 50 m record with a time of 5.61 s. Unfortunately he became injured during the summer and although making it to Sydney for the Olympics he did not progress through the early rounds.

He retained his European indoor title in 2002 as well as a 4 x 100 m Commonwealth Games gold medal.

2003 saw another World indoors bronze despite being hampered by a hamstring injury but the following year he bettered this to take the gold, his first world individual title ahead of the fancied Shawn Crawford of the USA.

Gardener made the squad for the 2004 Summer Olympics where he competed in the 100 m and won the gold medal in the 4 × 100 m relay with Darren Campbell, Marlon Devonish and Mark Lewis-Francis in a 38.07 s their season's best.

In March 2007, Gardener won his fourth European Indoor 60 m gold after fears that he may have to miss defending his title as his wife, Nancy, was due to give birth.

Gardener's last professional race was a 4 x 100 m relay at the London Grand Prix at Crystal Palace on 3rd August 2007. His team failed to finish this race.

tatistics

:"As of September 9, 2008"

Personal bests

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Major achievements

*1994
**World Junior Championships - Lisbon, Portugal.
***100 m silver medal
***4 × 100 m relay gold medal
*1995
**European Cup - Villeneuve d'Ascq, France.
***4 × 100 m relay gold medal
*1997
**European Cup - Munich, Germany.
***4 × 100 m relay bronze medal
*1998
**European Indoor Championships - Valencia, Spain.
***60 m silver medal
*1999
**World Indoor Championships - Maebashi, Japan.
***60 m bronze medal
**European Cup - Paris, France.
***4 × 100 m relay bronze medal
**ran 100 m personal best of 9.98 seconds in Lausanne, Switzerland.
*2000
**European Indoor Championships - Ghent, Belgium.
***60 m gold medal
*2002
**European Indoor Championships - Vienna, Austria.
***60 m gold medal
**Commonwealth Games - Manchester, England
***4 × 100 m gold medal
*2003
**World Indoor Championships - Birmingham, England.
***60 m bronze medal
*2004
**World Indoor Championships - Budapest, Hungary.
***60 m gold medal
**Summer Olympics - Athens, Greece.
***4 × 100 m gold medal
*2005
**World Championships - Helsinki, Finland.
***4 × 100 m bronze medal
*2007
**European Indoor Championships - Birmingham, England.
***60 m gold medal

Gardener has also won four senior national titles indoors and two outdoors.

External links

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SHORT DESCRIPTION = British Olympic sprinter
DATE OF BIRTH = 18 September 18 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH = Bath, Somerset, England
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