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Emerson Lane "Bud" Spencer (October 10, 1906 –
May 15, 1985) was an American athlete, winner of gold medal in 4x400 m relay at the 1928
Summer Olympics.
Emerson Spencer won, as a Stanford University student, the NCAA
Championships in 440 yd (400 m) in 1928 and set the new
400 m world record of 47.0 in the same year.
At the Amsterdam Olympics, Spencer
ran the second leg in the American 4x400 m relay team that won the
gold medal with a new world record of 3.14.2. A week later in London, Spencer bettered his own
4x400 m relay world record to 3.13.4.
He was married to Laura 'Henrietta' Halliday (d. of Dr. John
LeRoy & Tacy Marie Halliday) in Memorial Church, Stanford
University, Tuesday, September 1, 1931. She was from Wellington,
KS- HS class of 1924.
Emerson Spencer died in Palo Alto, California, aged
78.
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Champions in Men's 4×400 m Relay |
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1908 United States:
(medley) William F. Hamilton, Nathaniel
Cartmell, John
Taylor, Mel
Sheppard · 1912 United States: Mel Sheppard, Edward
Lindberg, Ted Meredith, Charles
Reidpath · 1920 Great Britain: Cecil
Griffiths, Robert Lindsay, John Ainsworth-Davies, Guy
Butler · 1924 United States: Commodore
Cochran, Alan
Helffrich, Oliver
MacDonald, William
Stevenson · 1928 United States: George Baird, Emerson Spencer, Frederick Alderman, Ray
Barbuti · 1932 United States: Ivan Fuqua, Edgar
Ablowich, Karl Warner, Bill
Carr · 1936 Great Britain: Frederick
Wolff, Godfrey Rampling, William Roberts, Godfrey
Brown · 1948 United States: Arthur Harnden,
Clifford
Bourland, Roy Cochran, Mal
Whitfield · 1952 Jamaica: Arthur Wint, Leslie Laing,
Herb McKenley, George
Rhoden · 1956 United States: Charlie
Jenkins, Louis
Jones, Jesse Mashburn,
Tom
Courtney · 1960 United States: Jack Yerman, Earl Young, Glenn Davis, Otis
Davis · 1964 United States: Ollan Cassell, Michael
Larrabee, Ulis Williams, Henry
Carr · 1968 United States: Vincent
Matthews, Ron
Freeman, Larry James, Lee
Evans · 1972 Kenya: Charles Asati, Hezahiah
Nyamau, Robert
Ouko, Julius
Sang · 1976 United States: Herman Frazier,
Benjamin Brown, Fred Newhouse, Maxie Parks ·
1980 Soviet
Union: Remigijus Valiulis, Mikhail
Linge, Nikolay
Chernetsky, Viktor
Markin · 1984 United States: Sunder Nix, Ray Armstead,
Alonzo Babers, Antonio
McKay · 1988 United States: Danny Everett, Steve
Lewis, Kevin
Robinzine, Butch
Reynolds · 1992 United States: Andrew Valmon, Quincy Watts,
Michael Johnson, Steve
Lewis · 1996 United States: LaMont Smith, Alvin
Harrison, Derek Mills, Anthuan
Maybank · 2000 Vacant:
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2004 United
States: Otis
Harris, Derrick
Brew, Jeremy Wariner,
Darold
Williamson · 2008 United States: LaShawn
Merritt, Angelo
Taylor, David Neville, Jeremy
Wariner
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