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Steve Riddick
Steven Earl Riddick (born September 18, 1951) is an American athlete and winner of the gold medal in 4×100 meter relay at the 1976 Summer Olympics. Personal life Riddick was raised in Hampton, Virginia. His father was a Church of Christ minister there."Feeling Fit To Hurt A Lot Of Feelings" Joe Marshall, Sports Illustrated, March 28, 1977. Riddick was a late starter in track, concentrating on team sports until his junior year at high school. After high school, Riddick attended at , having been recruited by coach |
United States
The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territories, nine Minor Outlying Islands, and 326 Indian reservations. The United States is also in free association with three Pacific Island sovereign states: the Federated States of Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau. It is the world's third-largest country by both land and total area. It shares land borders with Canada to its north and with Mexico to its south and has maritime borders with the Bahamas, Cuba, Russia, and other nations. With a population of over 333 million, it is the most populous country in the Americas and the third most populous in the world. The national capital of the United States is Washington, D.C. and its most populous city and principal financial center is New York City. Paleo-Americ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dick Price (coach)
William Leon "Dick" Price (September 10, 1933 – February 23, 2009) was an American football and track and field coach and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at Norfolk State University from 1974 to 1983, compiling a record of 62–41–4 and leading his Norfolk State Spartans football teams to three consecutive Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association (CIAA) in his first three seasons, 1974 to 1976. Price was also the head track and field coach at Norfolk State from 1964 to 1974. His track teams won consecutive NCAA Division II Men's Outdoor Track and Field Championships in 1973 and 1974. William "Dick" Price Stadium, Norfolk State's home football venue, is named for Price. A native of Norfolk, Virginia, Price graduated from Hampton University Hampton University is a private, historically black, research university in Hampton, Virginia. Founded in 1868 as Hampton Agricultural and Industrial School, it was established by Black and White lea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of California
The University of California (UC) is a public land-grant research university system in the U.S. state of California. The system is composed of the campuses at Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, Merced, Riverside, San Diego, San Francisco, Santa Barbara, and Santa Cruz, along with numerous research centers and academic abroad centers. The system is the state's land-grant university. Major publications generally rank most UC campuses as being among the best universities in the world. Six of the campuses, Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, and San Diego are considered Public Ivies, making California the state with the most universities in the nation to hold the title. UC campuses have large numbers of distinguished faculty in almost every academic discipline, with UC faculty and researchers having won 71 Nobel Prizes as of 2021. The University of California currently has 10 campuses, a combined student body of 285,862 students, 24,400 faculty members, 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mel Lattany
Melvin Lattany (born August 10, 1959) is a former United States, American track athlete. He was one of the world's dominating Sprint (running), sprinters in the early 1980s. Early years Lattany attended Glynn Academy, where he was a standout sprinter in track. He also practiced football, where although he was primarily a wide receiver, he also played as a Safety (American and Canadian football position), safety, cornerback, punt returner, kickoff returner and was the backup placekicker. He accepted a track scholarship from the University of Georgia, where he established a new List of junior world records in athletics, Men's World Junior Record over 100 metres on July 30, 1978. Lattany qualified for the 1980 US Olympic team as a 100 metres sprinter and a member of the 4 × 400 metres relay team, but was unable to compete due to the 1980 Summer Olympics boycott. He did however receive one of 461 List of Congressional Gold Medal recipients, Congressional Gold Medals awarded to those ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Roberson
Mike Roberson (born March 25, 1956) is an American former sprinter. Roberson was a very talented track athlete for his high school, Winter Park, and college, Florida State. At Winter Park, Roberson competed in the 120-yard high hurdles, and the 100- and 220-yard sprint races. At the state meet in 1975, Roberson set a national high school record of 13.2 s in the 120 hurdles plus recording the outstanding times of 9.4 s for the 100 y and 21.1 s for the 220 y. Also in 1975, Robertson clocked a high-school record for the 100 y at 9.2 s and equalled the then records for the 120 y hurdles (his new record was pending) and 220 y. Roberson was a key member of the Florida State track team during his years there, 1976–1980, setting college indoor and outdoor records in the 60, 100, and 200 m, and Metro Conference records in the 100 and 200 m. His greatest triumph was winning the 1980 NCAA (United States college) title at 200 m. Roberson also triumphed on the international stage by winni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Williams (athlete)
Steve Williams (born November 13, 1953) is a retired track and field sprinter from the United States. He equalled the men's world records for the 100 m and 200 m with hand-timed runs of 9.9 seconds and 19.8 seconds, respectively, and was also a member of a team that set a world record in the 4 × 100 m relay. He never competed at the Olympics, but had success at the IAAF World Cup: he won the 100 m and set a world record in the 4×100-meter relay with the US team at the inaugural championship in 1977. He won the 100 yd and 220 yd American titles at the 1973 AAU Championships and retained his short sprint title with a 100 m victory in 1974. A History Of The Results Of The National Track & Field Championships Of The USA From 1876 Through 2003, Track and Field News, Retrieved 3 February 2012. Career He won the 100 meters at the 1977 IAAF Athletics World Cup in Düsseldorf whilst representing the US. He also anchored the 4x100 meters USA relay team to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Collins (athlete)
William Collins (born November 20, 1950) is an American sprinter, originally running for Mount Vernon High School in Westchester County, New York, where he won four state titlesMarc Bloom Running and later at where he achieved "All-American" status.RUNNING NOTEBOOK: Houstonian enjoys year for the ages , Outdoors , Chron.com - Houston Chronicle /ref> ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cliff Wiley
Clifford 'Cliff' Wiley (born May 21, 1955) is a former American track and field athlete, who competed in the sprints events during his career. He is best known for winning the men's 400 metres event at the 1981 Athletics World Cup in Rome and the 1983 Pan American Games in Caracas. Track career Wiley originally competed at the 100 and 200 m events but later moved up to compete more successfully at the 400 m. A two-time USA National Champion at 400m, in 1981 and 1982, A History Of The Results Of The National Track & Field Championships Of The USA From 1876 Through 2003, Track and Field News, Retrieved 3 February 2012. Wiley set his personal best (44.70) in the 400 metres on 21 June 1981 in Sacramento. Wiley competed for his college, the University of Kansas, in the short sprints but did run 400 m relay legs, and it was his success at the latter that led his track coach, Bob Timmons, to believe this would be his best event. He was also a world record holder in the 4x100-meter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World Record
A world record is usually the best global and most important performance that is ever recorded and officially verified in a specific skill, sport, or other kind of activity. The book ''Guinness World Records'' and other world records organizations collates and publishes notable records of many. One of them is the World Records Union that is the unique world records register organization recognized by the Council of the Notariats of the European Union. Terminology In the United States, the form World's Record was formerly more common. The term The World's Best was also briefly in use. The latter term is still used in athletics events, including track and field and road running to describe good and bad performances that are not recognized as an official world record: either because it is not an event where the IAAF tracks the record (e.g. the 150 m run or individual events in a decathlon), or because it does not fulfill other rigorous criteria of an otherwise qualifying event (e. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Lutz (athlete)
Mark Edward Lutz (born December 23, 1951 in Minneapolis, Minnesota) is an American former sprinter. He ran for his home country in the 200 metres at the 1976 Summer Olympics, finishing 5th in his qualifying heat. Biography Lutz studied at the University of Kansas where he was a key member of the Kansas Jayhawks track team between 1971 and 1974. During his time there he tried to qualify for 200 m event at the 1972 Munich Olympics but was eliminated in a qualifying heat at the United States Olympic Trials.http://www.legacy.usatf.org/statistics/champions/OlympicTrials/HistoryOfTheOlympicTrials.pdf The History of the United States Olympic Trials - Track & Field, R Hymans, USA Track & Field, 2008 He was renowned at the time he was running for being one of the very few white sprinters at the elite level in the U.S. Lutz won a gold medal at the World University Games in 1973 as part of the 4x400 metres relay. That same year he was runner up at the USA Outdoor Track and Field Champion ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Millard Hampton
Millard Frank Hampton Jr. (born July 8, 1956) is an American former athlete, winner of gold medal in 4 × 100 m relay and the individual silver medal in the 200 meters at the 1976 Summer Olympics. Born in Fresno, California, Millard Hampton was an AAU champion in 200 m in 1976. His father, Millard Hampton Sr. was a top sprinter in his own right, placing as high as second in the CIF California State Meet 220 yards in 1952. Millard Hampton attended Silver Creek High School in San Jose, California, where he was coached by former San Jose State great Bobby Poynter, graduating in 1974 and continues to hold the school record in the 100 m at 10.4 sec. and the 200 m record at 20.8 sec. While at Silver Creek, in 1974 he won the CIF California State Meet title that had eluded his father. Next Hampton went to San Jose City College (SJCC) where he was coached by Bobby Poynter and Bert Bonanno. While at SJCC, Hampton won the 1976 Olympic Trials and at the Montreal Olympics, Ham ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lam Jones
John Wesley "Lam" Jones (April 4, 1958 – March 15, 2019) was an American sprinter and professional football player. He won a gold medal in the 4x100 meter relay at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal. He was also a wide receiver in the National Football League (NFL) for the New York Jets and Dallas Cowboys. He played college football at the University of Texas. Early years Jones attended Lampasas High School. In football, he became a regular starter at running back in a wishbone offense as a junior. He posted 9 carries for 197 yards (21.9-yard avg.) and 4 touchdowns against Fredericksburg High School. He had 12 carries for 154 yards (12.8-yard avg.) and 4 touchdowns against Llano High School. He finished the season with 1,330 rushing yards, an 11.6-yard average, 159 scored points and was named second-team Class AAA All-state. As a senior, he tallied 257 yards and 4 touchdowns against Gainesville High School and was named All-state. He scored 45 touchdowns in 2 sea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
