Ulis Williams

Ulis Williams ( born October 24, 1941 in Hollandale, Mississippi ) is a former American track and field athlete and Olympic champion who was active in the early 1960s and had specialized in the 400 meters. He started for the Arizona State University.

In 1963 he won in 45.8 s the championship of the National Collegiate Athletic Association over 440 y.

In 1964 he participated in the Olympic Games in Tokyo in part as a single runner over 400 meters and as a member of the U.S. 4 x 400 - meter relay and reached the following placements:

• 400 m: 5th place in 46.01 s ( for he had a medal must be nearly four tenths faster because the third place, the Pole Andrzej Badeński, ran 45.64 s. )
• 4 x 400 m: Gold in 3:00,7 min (Team: Ollan Cassell, Mike Larrabee, Williams as the third runner and as a final runner Henry Carr) ahead of Great Britain ( silver in 3:01,6 min ) and Trinidad (Bronze in 3:01,7 min)

This performance meant new world record. The previous record, set by Jack Yerman, Earl Young, Glenn Davis and Otis Davis four years earlier at the Olympic Games in Rome, had stood at 3:02,2 min. He held until 1966, when again broken by a U.S. team for the first time the 3 -minute mark was ( 2:59,6 minutes).

After ending his playing career Ulis Williams entered the service of the Compton Community College, where he successively held various positions and was eventually appointed in March 1996 to superintendent.

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 1941