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Gerald Howard "Gerry" Ashworth (born May 1, 1942) is a former American athlete, winner of the gold medal in the 4x100 m relay at the 1964 Summer Olympics. May 1 is the 121st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (122nd in leap years). ...
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Athletics, also known, especially in American English, as track and field or track and field athletics, is a collection of sport events, which can roughly be divided into running, throwing, and jumping. ...
The metre (Commonwealth English) or meter (American English) (symbol: m) is the SI base unit of length. ...
During a relay race, members of a team take turns swimming or running (usually with a baton) parts of a circuit or performing a certain action. ...
The Games of the XVIII Olympiad were held in 1964 in Tokyo, Japan. ...
Born in Haverhill, Massachusetts, Gerald Ashworth ran the second leg in the gold medal winning American 4x100 m relay team, which set a new world record of 39.0 at the Tokyo Olympics. Paul Drayton, Richard Stebbins and Bob Hayes ran the other legs. Seal of Haverhill, MA Haverhill is a city located in Essex County, Massachusetts. ...
A world record is the best performance in a certain discipline, usually a sports event. ...
View of Tokyos Shibuya district Long a symbol of Tokyo, the Nijubashi Bridge at the Imperial Palace. ...
For months before the Olympic Games, runners relay the Olympic Flame from Olympia to the opening ceremony. ...
| Olympic medalists in athletics (men) | Olympic Champions in Men's 4x100 m relay | 1912 Great Britain David Jacobs, Henry Macintosh, Victor d'Arcy & William Applegarth 1920 United States Charlie Paddock, Jackson Scholz, Loren Murchison & Morris Kirksey 1924 United States Loren Murchison, Louis Clarke, Frank Hussey & Alfred LeConey 1928 United States Frank Wykoff, James Quinn, Charles Borah & Henry Russell 1932 United States Robert Kiesel, Emmett Toppino, Hector Dyer & Frank Wykoff 1936 United States Jesse Owens, Ralph Metcalfe, Foy Draper & Frank Wykoff 1948 United States Barney Ewell, Lorenzo Wright, Harrison Dillard & Mel Patton 1952 United States Dean Smith, Harrison Dillard, Lindy Remigino & Andy Stanfield 1956 United States Ira Murchison, Leamon King, Thane Baker & Bobby Joe Morrow 1960 United team of Germany Bernd Cullmann, Armin Hary, Walter Mahlendorf & Martin Lauer 1964 United States Otis Drayton, Gerald Ashworth, Richard Stebbins & Bob Hayes 1968 United States Charles Greene, Melvin Pender, Ronnie Ray Smith & Jim Hines 1972 United States Larry Black, Robert Taylor, Gerald Tinker & Edward Hart 1976 United States Harvey Glance, John Wesley Jones, Millard Hampton & Steven Riddick 1980 Soviet Union Vladimir Muravyov, Nikolay Sidorov, Aleksandr Aksinin & Andrey Prokofyev 1984 United States Sam Graddy, Ron Brown, Calvin Smith & Carl Lewis 1988 Soviet Union Viktor Bryzgin, Vladimir Krylov, Vladimir Muravyov & Vitaly Savin 1992 United States Mike Marsh, Leroy Burrell, Dennis Mitchell & Carl Lewis 1996 Canada Robert Esmie, Glenroy Gilbert, Bruny Surin & Donovan Bailey 2000 United States Jon Drummond, Bernard Williams, Brian Lewis & Maurice Greene 2004 Great Britain Jason Gardener, Darren Campbell, Marlon Devonish & Mark Lewis-Francis | |