Andrew Valmon

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Medal record
Andrew Valmon
Men's Athletics
Competitor for the  United States
Olympic Games
Gold	1992 Barcelona	4x400 m relay
World Championships
Gold	1993 Stuttgart	4x400 m relay
Silver	1991 Tokyo	4x400 m relay

Andrew Orlando Valmon (born January 1, 1965) is a American former 400 meters runner.

He was born in Toms River, New Jersey, but raised in Manchester Township, New Jersey.

He won the silver medal at the World Indoor Athletics Championships 1991 in Seville. In 1992 he won a gold medal with the American 4x400 m relay team at the Olympic Games in Barcelona. The same year, Valmon set his personal best of 44.28 s.

He is now the head track & field coach at the University of Maryland, and coaches a summer camp at the university. Married Meredith Rainey also an Olympic runner. Andrew Valmon is also a member of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity Inc.

v • d • e Olympic champions in men's 4×400 m relay 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 United States: Alvin Harrison, Antonio Pettigrew, Calvin Harrison, Michael Johnson · 2004 United States: Otis Harris, Derrick Brew, Jeremy Wariner, Darold Williamson