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Gardiner Runs Bahamian All-Time Best In 300m In Florida Meet

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DyeStat.com   Jul 6th 2020, 2:09am
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Stevie Gardiner clocks 31.83 seconds in 300 meters, fastest time achieved on American soil in the event since 2015  

By Todd Grasley for DyeStat

While a majority of the professional track and field attention was focused on Clermont this weekend, the Empire Athletics group coached by Gary Evans traveled to North Florida and the V12 Summer Games.

Primarily a youth meet, it allowed Evans' younger athletes to compete, as well as his pro contingent Sunday at the 300-meter distance.

Stevie Gardiner, the reigning 400-meter gold medalist at the World Outdoor Championships in Doha, Qatar, last fall, torched the six-lane track at Santa Fe High in Alachua in a new personal best and all-time Bahamian mark of 31.83 seconds to go with his indoor national record of 32.26 at the same distance. 

Gardiner also owns the island’s 200-meter national record (19.75) from the Miami Alumni Invitational in 2018 and 400 national record of 43.48 at the 2019 World Championships.

It marked the fastest outdoor 300-meter performance on American soil since 2015 and elevated Gardiner to the No. 22 all-time performer in the event.

On the women’s side, 2016 NCAA 100-meter hurdles champion Jasmine Camacho-Quinn also set a new personal best in the event with a mark of 36.12 to beat out teammate Jessica Beard, the 2011 Bowerman Award winner, who added an outdoor PR of 36.84. Beard ran 36.65 at an indoor event in Boston in 2015.

Camacho-Quinn had only previously run the event indoors during her career and had never eclipsed the 37-second barrier prior to June 27, when she clocked 36.48. Camacho-Quinn lowered that mark to achieve another all-time best for Puerto Rico and equal the No. 18 all-time outdoor performer in the event.

Tamari Davis, in just her second race as a professional athlete for adidas, finished sixth in 38.13 seconds.

For Beard, who finished fourth in a small meet last week in the same event, it’s an amazing feeling to just get back on the track and competing.

“This season (of my life in general) is about learning, unlearning and wholeness (putting the right things together),” she said in a social media post. “I’m learning to extend grace, to assert my point of view, and to call a spade a spade. Grateful God has been kind and long-suffering. Happy to be getting back into the flow of things with everything that is STILL going on.”

Evans agrees.

“We’ve only been on the track eight times since March,” he said. “We’ve only been able to get back on the track twice a week due to the pandemic. I’m really proud of all of these athletes.”

The group will head to Atlanta next Saturday for the RSS/American Track League CO-19 Summer Series at Life University.



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