Christopher George Paul Garia (born December 16, 1992) is a Dutch sprinter and former baseball player from

Curaçao Curaçao ( ; ; pap, Kòrsou, ), officially the Country of Curaçao ( nl, Land Curaçao; pap, Pais Kòrsou), is a Lesser Antilles island country in the southern Caribbean Sea and the Dutch Caribbean region, about north of the Venezuela coast ...

. Garia won the 60 metres at the 2018 Dutch National Indoor Championships in a time of 6.70 seconds. He was also a member of the

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before completing his transformation to sprinter.

Baseball career

Garia played for the Texas Rangers organization. Garia was also selected for the

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for the , the

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, the exhibition games against

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in 2016 and the training camp in the United States in 2017 On August 25, 2016, he was selected for the 2016 France International Baseball Tournament. On September 7, 2016, he was selected for the 2016 European Baseball Championship. On October 26, 2016, he was selected for the exhibition games against Japan. On February 7, 2017, he was selected for the training camp in the United States. On February 9, 2017, he was selected for the 2017 World Baseball Classic. But on February 26, 2017, he canceled for paticipate.

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