Keith Gardner
| Keith Gardner medal table |
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| Olympic games | ||
| bronze | 1960 Rome | 4 × 400 m |
| Commonwealth Games | ||
| gold | 1954 Vancouver | 120 yds H |
| gold | 1958 Cardiff | 120 yds H |
| gold | 1958 Cardiff | 100 yds |
| silver | 1958 Cardiff | 220 yds |
| bronze | 1958 Cardiff | 4 × 400 yds |
| Pan American Games | ||
| silver | 1955 Mexico City | 110 m above sea level |
| silver | 1955 Mexico City | 4 × 400 m |
| Central America and Caribbean Games | ||
| gold | 1954 Mexico City | 4 × 100 m |
| gold | 1954 Mexico City | 4 × 400 m |
| silver | 1954 Mexico City | 110 m above sea level |
| bronze | 1954 Mexico City | Long jump |
Keith Alvin Saint Hope Gardner (born September 6, 1929 , † May 25, 2012 in Livingston , New Jersey ) was a Jamaican athlete who appeared primarily as a sprinter and hurdler and to a lesser extent as a long jumper in appearance. At the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome , he joined the West Indian Federation , to which Jamaica was a member at the time.
Career
Gardner celebrated his first international successes at the Central American and Caribbean Games in Mexico City in 1954 . With the Jamaican team, he won both the 4-by-100-meter relay and the 4-by-400-meter relay . In addition, he won the silver medal in the 110-meter hurdles and the bronze medal in the long jump. In the same year he secured the title in the 120- yard hurdles at the British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Vancouver . He also finished sixth with the 4-by-110-yard relay and the 4-by-440-yard relay and was ninth in the long jump.
At the 1955 Pan American Games in Mexico City , Gardner won silver medals in the 110-meter hurdles and with the 4-by-400-meter relay. However, he was less successful at the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne . Over 100 meter hurdles he was eliminated in the preliminary run. The Jamaican 4 x 400 meter relay, with which he was in the final, was subsequently disqualified because his teammate George Kerr had illegally obstructed the German runner Walter Oberste on the second round.
At the British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Cardiff in 1958 , Gardner managed to defend his title in the 120-yard hurdles. He also won the gold medal in the 100-yard run, the silver medal in the 220-yard run and the bronze medal with the 4-by-440-yard relay. At the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome , he participated as a starter for the West Indian Federation. In the 4 x 400 meter relay, he won the bronze medal together with Malcolm Spence , James Wedderburn and George Kerr. Along with another bronze medal from Kerr in the 800-meter run, it remained the only Olympic medal for the West Indian Federation, which was dissolved again in 1962. Gardner finished fifth in the 110-meter hurdles.
Web links
- Keith Gardner in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Olympian Gardner dead at 82 , May 26, 2012, The Gleaner
- ↑ Mark Butler (Ed.): IAAF Statistics Handbook - 12th IAAF World Championships in Athletics, Berlin 2009. ( Memento from October 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) IAAF Media & Public Relations Department, 2009, p. 565 (PDF; 4, 77 MB)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Gardner, Keith |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gardner, Keith Alvin Saint Hope (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Jamaican athlete |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 6, 1929 |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 25, 2012 |
| Place of death | Livingston , New Jersey |