George Baird (athlete)

Olympic medal record
Men's athletics
Competitor for the United States
Gold	1928 Amsterdam	4x400 m relay

George Hetzel Baird (March 5, 1907 – September 4, 2004) was an American athlete, winner of gold medal in 4x400 m relay at the 1928 Summer Olympics.

Born in Grand Island, Nebraska, George Baird ran the opening leg in the gold medal winning American 4x400 m relay team at the Amsterdam Olympics, which set the new world record of 3:14.2.

Just a week after the Olympics, Baird set his second 4x400 m relay world record of 3:13.4, running again the opening leg in London.

After his running career, Baird worked as a puppeteer with his famous brother Bil Baird and as an assistant professor of education at New York University.

George Baird died in Rhinebeck, New York, aged 97.

External links

Obituary
George Baird at Find-A-Grave

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)

Persondata
Name	Baird, George
Alternative names
Short description	Athletics (sport) competitor
Date of birth	March 5, 1907
Place of birth
Date of death	September 4, 2004
Place of death

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