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French track and field athlete
Garfield Darien
(born 22 December 1987) is a French
track and field
athlete who specialises in the
110 metres hurdles
.
Born in
Lyon
, Darien made his first international appearances as a junior, finishing in seventh at the
2004 World Junior Championships in Athletics
and becoming the 110 m hurdles champion at the
2005 European Athletics Junior Championships
. He set a personal best of 13.73 seconds that year, but competed infrequently over the following two years. He returned to action in 2008 and improved his best to 13.50 seconds.
[1]
The 2009 season saw him enter into major senior competitions for the first time. He was sixth in the
60 metres hurdles
at the
2009 European Athletics Indoor Championships
. He began to make in-roads into the major circuit, taking third place at the
Meeting Areva
in Paris,
[2]
before improving to 13.36 seconds with a fourth-place finish at the
Herculis
meeting.
[3]
He attended the
2009 World Championships in Athletics
and reached the semi-finals of the 110 m hurdles competition. He represented France at the
2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships
but did not progress past the heats stage.
[1]
Despite entering the
2010 European Athletics Championships
as a rank outsider for the title, Darien won the
silver medal
with a personal best time of 13.34 seconds.
[4]
He repeated this success at the
2011 European Athletics Indoor Championships
on March 4, winning silver in the 60 m hurdles in another best of 7.56 seconds. He was the silver medallist at the
2011 European Team Championships
, but missed much of the later outdoor season due to injury. He returned to action in June 2012 and promptly set a hurdles best of 13.24 seconds to win in Geneva, then matched that time at the
Memorial Primo Nebiolo
.
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