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For Jason Gardener – who was this week announced as the World Athletics ambassador for the World Athletics Relays Silesia21 on 1-2 May – it all started at the World U20 Championships.
His 4x100m success as a teenager at the 1994 edition of the event in Lisbon was to set the tone for more than a decade of international relay duty, which was capped by that 2004 Olympic gold medal win for Britain in Athens.
There were many great individual achievements too, of course, with a world and four European indoor 60m golds gained between 2000 and 2007, but it was the 4x100m in which the ‘Bath Bullet’ won the Olympic title he had always dreamed of.
Christian Malcolm: My barriers growing up, pressure of coaching elite British athletes and Tokyo medal hopes First black British Athletics Olympic head coach Christian Malcolm talks about overcoming barriers; former GB world bronze medallist says coronavirus makes job very challenging but top athletes are feeding off each other to win Olympic medals in Japan
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Last Updated: 23/12/20 4:02pm 5:14 Christian Malcolm speaks to Geraint Hughes about coaching a golden generation of elite British athletes for the Olympics Christian Malcolm speaks to Geraint Hughes about coaching a golden generation of elite British athletes for the Olympics
Christian Malcolm says the prestigious job of British Athletics Olympic head coach came sooner than he thought , as he spoke about overcoming barriers in life, the pressure of his new role and how coronavirus