Neil Gardner

Neil Anthony Gardner (born 8 December 1974) is a Jamaican former athlete who specialised in the 400 metres hurdles. He won the Victor Ludorum, the champion athlete award, at the Inter-Secondary School Sports Association boys championships three years running from 1991 to 1993, then took a track and field scholarship to the University of Michigan. There he won the 1996 NCAA outdoor 400 metres hurdles title and, in 1997, became the first athlete to win the NCAA championship in both the outdoor 400 metres hurdles and the indoor 55 metres hurdles. He represented Jamaica at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, where he reached the semifinals and ran 48.30 seconds, and reached the semifinals at the 2001 World Championships in Edmonton. He later qualified as a chiropractor.