Ron Freeman

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Ron Freeman
Medal record

Men's athletics
Competitor for the United States
Olympic Games
Gold	1968 Mexico City	4x400 metres relay
Bronze	1968 Mexico City	400 metres Ron ran the fastest 400 meter relay leg in the history of the Olympic Games which stood for more than 25 years.

Ronald ("Ron") J. Freeman II (born June 12, 1947) is a former American athlete, winner of gold medal in 4x400 m relay at the 1968 Summer Olympics.

Born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Ron Freeman was third in 400 m and ran the second leg(43.2) in the American 4x400 m relay team, which won the gold medal with a new world record of 2.56.16. Ron's relay leg was the fastest 400 meter relay leg EVER ran and his time stood for more than 25 years.

References

Sports Reference

Olympic Champions in Men's 4×400 m relay

1908: United States (Hamilton, Cartmell, Taylor, Sheppard)
1912: United States (Sheppard, Lindberg, Meredith, Reidpath)
1920: Great Britain (Griffiths, Lindsay, Ainsworth-Davis, Butler)
1924: United States (Cochran, Helffrich, MacDonald, Stevenson)
1928: United States (Baird, Spencer, Alderman, Barbuti)
1932: United States (Fuqua, Ablowich, Warner, Carr)
1936: Great Britain (Wolff, Rampling, Roberts, Brown)
1948: United States (Harnden, Bourland, Cochran, Whitfield)
1952: Jamaica (Wint, Laing, McKenley, Rhoden)
1956: United States (Jenkins, Jones, Mashburn, Courtney)
1960: United States (Yerman, Young, G. Davis, O. Davis)
1964: United States (Cassell, Larrabee, Williams, Carr)
1968: United States (Matthews, Freeman, James, Evans)
1972: Kenya (Asati, Nyamau, Ouko, Sang)
1976: United States (Frazier, Brown, Newhouse, Parks)
1980: Soviet Union (Valiulis, Linge, Chernetskiy, Markin)
1984: United States (Nix, Armstead, Babers, McKay)
1988: United States (Everett, Lewis, Robinzine, Reynolds, McKay, Valmon)
1992: United States (Valmon, Watts, Johnson, Lewis, Hall, Jenkins)
1996: United States (Smith, Harrison, Mills, Maybank, Rouser)
2000: Nigeria (Chukwu, Monye, Bada, Udo-Obong, Awazie, Gadzama)
2004: United States (Harris, Brew, Wariner, Williamson, Rock, Willie)
2008: United States (Merritt, Taylor, Neville, Wariner, Clement, Witherspoon)
2012: Bahamas (Brown, Pinder, Mathieu, Miller)

v t e 1968 USA Olympic Track & Field Team

Qualification	1968 United States Olympic Trials (track and field)

Men's track & road athletes	Jack Bacheler Wade Bell John Carlos Leon Coleman Willie Davenport Ronald Daws Bob Day Thomas Dooley Lee Evans Thomas Farrell Ron Freeman Boyd Gittins Charles Greene Ervin Hall Rudy Haluza Jim Hines Larry James Goetz Klupfer Ronald Kutchinski Ron Laird Thomas Laris Marty Liquori Vincent Matthews Kenny Moore Van Nelson Conrad Nightingale Mel Pender Larry Questad William Reilly David Romansky Jim Ryun Lou Scott Ronnie Ray Smith Tommie Smith Tracy Smith Geoff Vanderstock Tom von Ruden Ronald Whitney George Young Larry Young

Men's field athletes	Bob Beamon Ralph Boston Reynaldo Brown Edward Burke Gary Carlsen Casey Carrigan Ed Caruthers Hal Connolly Frank Covelli Dick Fosbury Albert Hall David Maggard Randel Matson Charles Mays Mark Murro Al Oerter John Pennel Bob Seagren Jay Silvester Richard Don Sloan David Smith George Stenlund Norman Tate Bill Toomey Thomas Waddell Arthur Walker George Woods

Women's track & road athletes	Margaret Bailes Doris Brown Lois Ann Drinkwater Julie Mae Dyer Barbara Ferrell Francie Kraker Madeline Manning Mildred Netter Mamie Rallins Jarvis Scott Esther Stroy Patty Jean Van Wolvekaere

Women's field athletes	RaNae Bair Estelle Baskerville Sharon Callahan Olga Fikotova Connolly Barbara Ann Frederick Cathy Hamblin Eleanor Montgomery Carol Moseke Maren Seidler Martha Rae Watson Willye White Pat Winslow

Coaches	—

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Name	Freeman, Ron
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Short description	Athletics (sport) competitor
Date of birth	June 12, 1947
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