Jason Gardener

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Jason Gardener (born September 18, 1975 in Bath, Somerset, England) is a sprint athlete.

Jason 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 x 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. and later that year saw him run 9.98 seconds breaking the 10.00 second barrier for the first time in the 100 m. He was also part of the national record breaking 4 x 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 Jason 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.

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

Major achievements

• 1994
  • World Junior Championships - Lisbon, Portugal.
    • 100 m. silver medal
    • 4 x 100 m. relay gold medal
• 1995
  • European Cup - Villeneuve d'Ascq, France.
    • 4 x 100 m. relay gold medal
• 1997
  • European Cup - Munich, Germany.
    • 4 x 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 x 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 x 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.
    • 4x100 m gold medal
• 2005
  • World Championships - Helsinki, Finland.
    • 4x100 m bronze medal

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

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Olympic medalists in athletics (men) | Olympic Champions in Men's 4x100 m relay

1912 Great Britain David Jacobs, Henry Macintosh, Victor d'Arcy & William Applegarth 1920 United States Charlie Paddock, Jackson Scholz, Loren Murchison & Morris Kirksey 1924 United States Loren Murchison, Louis Clarke, Frank Hussey & Alfred LeConey 1928 United States Frank Wykoff, James Quinn, Charles Borah & Henry Russell 1932 United States Robert Kiesel, Emmett Toppino, Hector Dyer & Frank Wykoff 1936 United States Jesse Owens, Ralph Metcalfe, Foy Draper & Frank Wykoff 1948 United States Barney Ewell, Lorenzo Wright, Harrison Dillard & Mel Patton 1952 United States Dean Smith, Harrison Dillard, Lindy Remigino & Andy Stanfield 1956 United States Ira Murchison, Leamon King, Thane Baker & Bobby Joe Morrow 1960 United team of Germany Bernd Cullmann, Armin Hary, Walter Mahlendorf & Martin Lauer 1964 United States Otis Drayton, Gerald Ashworth, Richard Stebbins & Bob Hayes 1968 United States Charles Greene, Melvin Pender, Ronnie Ray Smith & Jim Hines 1972 United States Larry Black, Robert Taylor, Gerald Tinker & Edward Hart 1976 United States Harvey Glance, John Wesley Jones, Millard Hampton & Steven Riddick 1980 Soviet Union Vladimir Muravyov, Nikolay Sidorov, Aleksandr Aksinin & Andrey Prokofyev 1984 United States Sam Graddy, Ron Brown, Calvin Smith & Carl Lewis 1988 Soviet Union Viktor Bryzgin, Vladimir Krylov, Vladimir Muravyov & Vitaly Savin 1992 United States Mike Marsh, Leroy Burrell, Dennis Mitchell & Carl Lewis 1996 Canada Robert Esmie, Glenroy Gilbert, Bruny Surin & Donovan Bailey 2000 United States Jon Drummond, Bernard Williams, Brian Lewis & Maurice Greene 2004 Great Britain Jason Gardener, Darren Campbell, Marlon Devonish & Mark Lewis-Francis

Olympic medalists in athletics (men) | Post-war British Olympic champions in men's athletics

1956: Chris Brasher (3000 m steeplechase) | 1960: Don Thompson (50 km walk) | 1964: Ken Matthews (20 km walk) | 1964: Lynn Davies (long jump) | 1968: David Hemery (400 m hurdles) 1980: Allan Wells (100 m) | 1980: Steve Ovett (800 m) | 1980 & 1984: Sebastian Coe (1500 m) | 1980 & 1984: Daley Thompson (decathlon) | 1992: Linford Christie (100 m) | 2000: Jonathan Edwards (triple jump) | 2004: Jason Gardener, Darren Campbell, Marlon Devonish & Mark Lewis-Francis (4 x 100 m relay)

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