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Place of Birth: Lyon, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
About Garfield Darien
- 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.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, before improving to 13.36 seconds with a fourth-place finish at the Herculis meeting.
- 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.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.
- 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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