Brian Mariano

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Brian Mariano at the 2010 Indoor World Championships

Brian Mariano ( Brian Vincent Mariano; born January 22, 1985 in Willemstad ) is a Dutch sprinter . It started for the Netherlands Antilles until its dissolution on October 10, 2010.

At the Central America and Caribbean Games in 2006, he won the 4 x 100 meter relay with the Dutch Antilles team .

In 2007 he was eliminated from the Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro over 100 m in the preliminary run and came in sixth place in the 4-by-100-meter relay.

In 2010 he was disqualified in the semi-finals at the World Indoor Athletics Championships in Doha over 60 m and won bronze in the 4 x 100 meter relay at the Central America and Caribbean Games.

The following year he was sixth over 60 m at the European Athletics Indoor Championships in Paris in 2011 . At the World Athletics Championships in Daegu , he was disqualified in the preliminary run with the Dutch 4 x 100 meter relay.

In 2012 he won the Dutch 4 x 100 meter relay at the European Athletics Championships in Helsinki and came with it to fifth place at the Olympic Games in London .

He was also fifth in the season at the 2013 World Cup in Moscow. At the European Indoor Championships 2015 in Prague, he reached the semi-finals over 60 m.

In 2009, 2010 and 2011 he was the Dutch indoor champion over 60 m.

For smuggling 720 grams of cocaine, Mariano was sentenced to six months in prison in 2013, which he did not have to serve. In 2016 he passed a positive doping test .

Personal bests

  • 60 m (hall): 6.60 s, February 14, 2010, Gent (Dutch record: 6.60 s, March 5, 2011, Paris )
  • 100 m: 10.23 s, April 10, 2010, El Paso
  • 200 m : 20.81 s, April 10, 2010, El Paso

Web links

Commons : Brian Mariano  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Atleet Brian Mariano moet helped jaar cel in wegens drugs ad.nl February 4, 2013
  2. Jail full: European champion escapes prison sentence t-online.de February 6, 2013
  3. Nederlandse sprinter Mariano test positief op doping nu.nl March 8, 2016