Ollan Cassell

Ollan Conley " Conn " Cassell ( born October 5, 1937 in Nickelsville, Virginia ) is a former American track and field athlete who was successful in the early 1960s as a sprinter. He ran a world record and won three gold medals.

In national championships, he was twice victorious:

Cassell visited the Appalachia High School in Virginia and then the University of Houston.

He had his first international success in 1963, when he at the Pan American Games in Sao Paulo, the U.S. Season both 4 x 100 m and 4 x 400 m reinforced and won two gold medals (Victory Hours: 40.40 s against Venezuela in 40.71 s respectively 3:09,62 min also on Venezuela in 3:12,20 min). As a single runner, he won in 21.23 s silver over 200 meters between two simultaneous Venezuelans and came across 100 meters at number six.

At the Olympic Games in Tokyo in 1964, he participated in the individual race over 400 meters and came to the semifinals. He then won his third gold medal with the U.S. season. The squadron, which contested the occupation Ollan Cassell as first runner, Mike Larrabee, Ulis Williams and Henry Carr, pressed the existing world record of 3:02,2 min, set four years earlier at the Games in Rome by Jack Yerman, Earl Young, Glenn Davis and Otis Davis, on 3:00,7 min. He held until 1966, when again broken by a U.S. team for the first time the three -minute barrier was ( 2:59,6 min).

After ending his career Ollan Cassell entered the service of the U.S. Track and Field Association AAU, for which he was a director from 1970 to 1997. He also spent ten years, from 1976 to 1986, Vice- President of the IAAF. Today he is president of the Indiana Olympian Association and professor of Olympic sports history at the University of Indianapolis.

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