On his day in 2015; Steven Gardiner, set a new national record for the Bahamas in the 400m at the Bahamas Association of Athletic Associations’ National Open Track and Field Championships at the age of 19.
He set the record with a time of 44.27 seconds to beat the previous mark of 44.40 set by Chris ‘Fireman’ Brown on June 6, 2008. He would later run a time of 43.48 at the World Championships in Doha, resetting his own national record. He is the only Bahamian, and the first Caribbean athlete, to run both sub-44 s in the 400m and sub-20 s in the 200m.
In his career to this up to this point, he has won. silver medal at the 2017 World Championships and became the world champion at the 2019 World Championships in the 400m. At the 2016 Olympic Games he placed 11th in the 400m with a time of 44.72 and took home the bronze medal in the 4x400m with the team of Alonzo Russell, Michael Mathieu, Chris Brown, and Demetrius Pinder and Stephen Newbold. They won in a time of 2:58.49.
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