Jason Gardener
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| Nationality | English |
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18 September 1975 Bath, England |
| Height | 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Running |
| Event(s) | 60 metres, 100 metres, 200 metres |
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Jason Carl Gardener (born 18 September 1975) is a retired British sprint athlete. He won an Olympic gold medal in the 4x 100 metres relay at the 2004 Olympic Games, and is also the 2004 World Indoor Champion at 60 metres.
Gardener was born in Bath, Somerset to a Jamaican father and British mother, and started his career at the World Junior Championships in 1994, where he was 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.
Joining the senior ranks, and coached by Malcolm Arnold for his entire career, Gardener took another silver in the 60 m, at the European Indoor Championships of 1998. He 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.
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