George Baird (athlete)
| Personal information | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Born |
March 5, 1907 Grand Island, Nebraska, United States | |||||||||
| Died |
September 4, 2004 (aged 97) Rhinebeck, New York, United States | |||||||||
| Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | |||||||||
| Weight | 66 kg (146 lb) | |||||||||
| Sport | ||||||||||
| Sport | Running | |||||||||
| Club | Iowa Hawkeyes | |||||||||
Medal record
| ||||||||||
.svg.png){kind=icon}
George Hetzel Baird (March 5, 1907 – September 4, 2004) was an American sprint runner who won a gold medal in 4 × 400 m relay at the 1928 Summer Olympics, breaking the world record in the process. A week later he helped to set another world record, at 3:13.4 in the 4×440 yard relay in London. Baird graduated from the University of Iowa and later took various jobs during the Great Depression. He assisted his brother Bill as a puppeteer, and later became an assistant professor of education at the New York University.
References
 |
Wikimedia Commons has media related to George Baird (athlete). |
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Saturday, March 19, 2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.