Keith Gardner

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| name = Keith Gardner

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| nationality = Jamaican

| sport = Athletics

| event = sprints / hurdles

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| birth_date = 6 September 1929

| birth_place = Kingston, Jamaica

| death_date = 25 May 2012 (aged 82)

| death_place = Livingston, New Jersey, USA

| height =175 cm

| weight =64 kg

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Keith Alvin Saint Hope Gardner (6 September 1929{{spaced ndash}}25 May 2012) was a Jamaican athlete who competed in the 110 metre hurdles, 100 metres, 200 metres, and 400 metres, who competed at the 1960 Summer Olympics.

Biography

In 1954, Gardner won a gold medal for Jamaica at the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Vancouver, Canada over the 120 yard hurdles.

Gardner won the British AAA Championships title in the 120 yards hurdles event at the 1958 AAA Championships.{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001723/19580713/014/0014 |title=Ibbotson quits... Pirie flops |work=Sunday Sun (Newcastle) |date=13 July 1958 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=2 May 2025}}{{cite web|url=https://www.nuts.org.uk/Champs/AAA/index.htm |title=AAA, WAAA and National Championships Medallists |website=National Union of Track Statisticians |access-date=2 May 2025}}{{cite web|url=http://www.gbrathletics.com/bc/aaa.htm |title=AAA Championships (men) |website=GBR Athletics |access-date=2 May 2025}} Shortly afterwards he represented the Jamaican team at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Cardiff, Wales, where he four medals, including two golds.{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/72279 |title=Biographical Information |website=Olympedia |access-date=2 May 2025}}

Gardner competed for the British West Indies in the 1960 Olympic Games held in Rome, Italy in the 4 x 400 metre relay, where he won the bronze medal with his teammates Malcolm Spence, James Wedderburn, and George Kerr.

References

[https://web.archive.org/web/20070928031323/http://www.golocaljamaica.com/readarticle.php?ArticleID=7318 Profile]
[http://www.thecgf.com/countries/results.asp Commonwealth Games Results]{{Dead link|date=February 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

Category:1929 births

Category:2012 deaths

Category:Jamaican male sprinters

Category:Jamaican male hurdlers

Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games

Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 1955 Pan American Games

Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 1956 Summer Olympics

Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games

Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 1960 Summer Olympics

Category:Olympic athletes for Jamaica

Category:Olympic athletes for the British West Indies

Category:Olympic bronze medalists for the British West Indies