Lee Evans (athlete)

Lee Edward Evans ( born February 25, 1947 in Madera, Madera County, California ) is a former American track and field athlete and Olympic champion.

Evans was during his high school years undefeated and won his first 1966 AAU Championship over 440 yards, shortly after his graduation. He repeated his victory the following year and won both the 1968 AAU and the NCAA title over 400 meters. He had his first world record in 1966 in Los Angeles., As a member of the U.S. national team in the 4 x 400 - meter relay with 2:59,6 minutes of first-team time in under 3 minutes The following year he broke the world record in Fresno on 4-by- 220 yards with a time of 1:22,1 minutes.

At the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City he set in the qualifying rounds of the 400-meter run with 44.0 seconds a new world record and the final race, he broke his own world record of 43.86 seconds, with which he won the gold medal, before the other two Americans Larry James (Silver) and Ron Freeman (bronze). Days later he won the team gold medal in the 4 x 400 - meter relay, also with a new world record with a time of 2:56,1 minutes, along with his teammates Vince Matthews, Freeman and James, before the teams from Kenya (Silver) and from Germany (bronze). Both world records had a validity of 20 years and were considered along with the long jump world record (8.90 m) by Bob Beamon -a-century world records of those Olympics.

1969 and 1972, he won the AAU Championship over 400 meters. At the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich Evans took part because he was qualified in U.S. Trials as fourth runner for the 4 x 400 - meter relay. Da Vince Matthews and Wayne Collett were excluded based on their behavior during the medal ceremony for the 400 meter race from the games and John Smith failed due to a thigh strain in the 400 m finals, the U.S. had not enough runners for the season. Therefore, no U.S. relay could start, and Lee Evans had no use.

List of Olympic champion in athletics

1912: Mel Sheppard, Edward Lindberg, Ted Meredith, Charles Reidpath | 1920: Cecil Griffiths, Robert Lindsay, John Ainsworth -Davis, Guy Butler | 1924 Commodore Cochran, William Stevenson, Oliver MacDonald, Alan Helffrich | 1928: George Baird, Emerson Spencer, Fred Alderman, Ray Barbuti | 1932: Ivan Fuqua, Edgar Ablowich, Karl Warner, Bill Carr | 1936: Freddie Wolff, Godfrey Rampling, Bill Roberts, Godfrey Brown | 1948: Arthur Harnden, Cliff Bourland, Roy Cochran, Mal Whitfield | 1952: Arthur Wint, Leslie Laing, Herb McKenley, George Rhoden | 1956: Charles Jenkins, Lou Jones, Jesse Mashburn, Tom Courtney | 1960: Jack Yerman, Earl Young, Glenn Davis, Otis Davis | 1964: Ollan Cassell, Mike Larrabee, Ulis Williams, Henry Carr | 1968: Vince Matthews, Ron Freeman, Larry James, Lee Evans | 1972: Charles Asati, Munyoro Nyamau, Robert Ouko, Julius Sang | 1976: Herman Frazier, Benny Brown, Fred Newhouse, Maxie parks | 1980: Remigijus Valiulis, Mikhail Linge, Nikolai Tschernezki, Viktor Markin | 1984: Sunder Nix, Ray Armstead, Alonzo Babers, Antonio McKay | 1988: Danny Everett, Steve Lewis, Kevin Robinzine, Harry Reynolds | 1992: Andrew Valmont, Quincy Watts, Michael Johnson Steve Lewis | 1996: Alvin Harrison, LaMont Smith, Derek Mills, Anthuan Maybank | 2000: Udo- Obong Enefiok, Clement Chukwu, Jew Monye, Sunday Bada | 2004: Otis Harris, Derrick Brew Jeremy Wariner, Darold Williamson | 2008: LaShawn Merritt, Angelo Taylor, David Neville, Jeremy Wariner | 2012: Chris Brown, Demetrius Pinder, Michael Mathieu, Ramon Miller

List of Olympic champion in athletics

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Born in 1947

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