This article is about the athlete Bill Carr. For other people, see
William Carr .
Bill Carr (actually William Arthur Carr ; born October 24, 1909 in Pine Bluff , Arkansas , † January 14, 1966 in Tokyo , Japan ) was an American sprinter and Olympic champion .
Carr graduated from the University of Pennsylvania where he was trained by Lawson Robertson , a 1904 Olympian. Carr's favorite courses were the 440 and 880 yards and the long jump . At the IC4A championships in 1932 he set a world record over 440 yards, which he confirmed a few weeks later as a favorite at the Olympic Games in Los Angeles .
There he won the gold medal in the 400-meter run , ahead of the former US world record holder Ben Eastman (silver) and the Canadian Alex Wilson (bronze), as well as the team gold medal in the 4-by-400-meter relay , together with his teammates Ivan Fuqua , Edgar Ablowich and Karl Warner , ahead of the teams from the United Kingdom (silver) and Canada (bronze). In this run, the US team set a world record with a time of 3: 08.2 minutes.
On March 17, 1933, Carr's sporting career came to an abrupt end in a car accident. He broke both feet and his pelvis on both sides. Although he recovered perfectly, he did not resume training.
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1912: Sheppard , Lindberg , Meredith , Reidpath ( USA )United States 48 | 1920: Griffiths , Lindsay , Ainsworth-Davis , Butler ( GBR )United Kingdom | 1924: Cochran , Stevenson , McDonald , Helffrich ( USA )United States 48 | 1928: Baird , Spencer , Alderman , Barbuti ( USA )United States 48 | 1932: Fuqua , Ablowich , Warner , Carr ( USA )United States 48 | 1936: Wolff , Rampling , Roberts , Brown ( GBR )United Kingdom | 1948: Harnden , Bourland , Cochran , Whitfield ( USA )United States 48 | 1952: Wint , Laing , McKenley , Rhoden ( JAM )Jamaica 1906 | 1956: Jenkins , Jones , Mashburn , Courtney ( USA )United States 48 | 1960: Yerman , Young , Davis , Davis ( USA )United States | 1964: Cassell , Larrabee , Williams , Carr ( USA )United States | 1968: Matthews , Freeman , James , Evans ( USA )United States | 1972: Asati , Nyamau , Ouko , Sang ( KEN )Kenya | 1976: Frazier , Brown , Newhouse , Parks ( USA )United States | 1980: Valiulis , Linge , Tschernetski , Markin ( URS )Soviet Union | 1984: Nix , Armstead , Babers , McKay ( USA )United States | 1988: Everett , Lewis , Robinzine , Reynolds ( USA )United States | 1992: Valmon , Watts , Johnson , Lewis ( USA )United States | 1996: Harrison , Smith , Mills , Maybank ( USA )United States | 2000: Udo-Obong , Chukwu , Monye , Bada ( NGR )Nigeria | 2004: Otis Harris , Derrick Brew , Jeremy Wariner , Darold Williamson ( USA )United States | 2008: Merritt , Taylor , Neville , Wariner ( USA )United States | 2012: Brown , Pinder , Mathieu , Miller ( BAH )Bahamas | 2016: Hall , McQuay , Merritt , Roberts ( USA )United States
List of Olympic champions in athletics
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