Leslie Laing

Leslie Laing (Leslie Alphonso " Les " Laing, born February 19, 1925 in Linstead ) is a retired Jamaican sprinter who was successful in the years after the Second World War.

At the Olympic Games in London in 1948 he represented his country at the two short sprints. While he resigned over 100 m during preprocessing, he came over 200m finals, where he placed sixth and last in 21.6 seconds. In the 4 x 400 - meter relay team, he was part of the Jamaican team that could not finish the race due to an injury of Arthur Wint.

Four years later at the 1952 Olympics in Helsinki, he launched over 200 and came in 21.2 s to fifth place.

In the 4 x 400 meters relay with the Jamaican team had more luck this time. In the occupation of Arthur Wint, Laing, Herb McKenley and George Rhoden she not only won the gold medal ahead of the U.S. with cage rotor time Whitfield, but picked up in 3:03,9 minutes still the world record. The race was incredibly fast: The teams from the U.S. and Germany, who won the silver and bronze, still remained under the old world record of 3:08,2 min, the Americans Ivan Fuqua, Edgar Ablowich, Karl Warner and Bill Carr twenty years earlier, had set up at the 1932 Olympic Games in Los Angeles. Thus, one of the oldest track and field world records had been wiped out. The new record should have eight years Inventory: Only in 1960, at the Olympic Games in Rome, he was from the U.S. to 3:02,2 min pressed ( second-placed German quartet undercut with 3:02,7 min also the old mark of Jamaicans ).

In 2005, Leslie Laing was inducted into the Central American and Caribbean Confederation Hall of Fame.