Steven Gardiner
Steven Gardiner 
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| birthday | 12th September 1995 (age 24) | |||||||||||||||
| place of birth | Moore's Island , Bahamas | |||||||||||||||
| size | 193 cm | |||||||||||||||
| Weight | 94 kg | |||||||||||||||
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| discipline | sprint | |||||||||||||||
| Best performance | 200 m: 19.75 s (+0.3 m / s) 400 m: 43.48 s
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| status | active | |||||||||||||||
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| last change: October 7, 2019 | ||||||||||||||||
Steven Gardiner (born September 12, 1995 on Moore's Island ) is a Bahamian sprinter who specializes in the 400-meter run .
Athletic career
Steven Gardiner gained his first international experience in 2014 at the CARIFTA Games 2014 in Fort-de-France , where he finished fourth in the 200-meter run in 20.87 seconds and won the Bahamian 4-by-100-meter Relay won the silver medal in 40.35 s, while he won bronze with the 4 x 400 meter relay after 3: 11.32 min. He then took part in the Junior World Championships in Eugene over 200 meters , where he was eliminated in the semifinals with 20.89 s and reached sixth place in the 4 x 400 meter relay in 3: 08.08 min. At the IAAF World Relays 2015 in the Bahamas, he finished second behind the United States with the 4 x 400 meter relay in 2: 58.91 minutes. Shortly afterwards he set up a new national record at the national championships in Nassau with 44.27 s and thus qualified for the world championships in Beijing , where he reached the semifinals . He was also disqualified in the 4 x 400 meter relay with the Bahamian team in the preliminary run. The following year, he took the first time at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , winning there in relay contest in 2: 58.49 min the bronze medal behind the United States and Jamaica. In addition, he reached the semi-finals in the individual competition , in which he was eliminated with 44.72 s.
At the IAAF World Relays 2017 he won the mixed relay in 3: 14.42 minutes and retired from the men's relay with 3: 05.37 minutes in advance. But he qualified again over 400 meters for the World Championships in London , where he won the silver medal behind the South African Wayde van Niekerk with 44.41 s in the final . Two years later he reached the finals at the World Championships in Doha and won there with a new national record of 43.48 s, making it the second Bahamas world champion over this distance after Avard Moncur .
Personal bests
- 200 meters: 19.75 s (+0.3 m / s), April 7, 2018 in Coral Gables ( Bahamian record )
- 400 meters: 43.48 s, October 4, 2019 in Doha ( Bahamian record )
Web links
- Steven Gardiner in the database of World Athletics (English)
- Steven Gardiner in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Steve Landells: Report: men's 400m - IAAF World Athletics Championships Doha 2019 ( English ) IAAF. October 4, 2019. Retrieved October 7, 2019.
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| SURNAME | Gardiner, Steven |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Bahamian sprinter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 12, 1995 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Moore's Island |