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Ollan Conn Cassell (born October 5, 1937) is a former American athlete, winner of gold medal in 4x400 m relay at the 1964 Summer Olympics.
Born in Nickelsville, Virginia, Ollan Cassell attended Appalachia High School.
Cassell won his first AAU championship title in 1957 in 220 yd (200 m).
Cassell took up the quarter-mile when attending to University of Houston. In 1962, he won a gold medals in the 400 m and 4x400 m relay and a silver medal in the 4x100 m relay at the World Military Championships. The following year, at the 1963 Pan-American Games, Cassell won two gold medals in the relays and was second in 200 m and sixth in 100 m.
Cassell is a graduate of Appalachia High School in Appalachia, Virginia.
At the Tokyo Olympics, Cassell was a semifinalist in 400 m and ran the opening leg in the American 4x400 m relay team, which won the gold medal with a new world record of 3:00.7.
Cassell won his second (and last) AAU title in 440 yd (400 m) in 1965. After that, he retired from sports and started to work as the track and field administrator of the AAU from 1965-1972. He was an Executive Director of the AAU from 1970-1980 and Executive Director of USA Track and Field from 1980-1997. He also was a founding member of the International Athletics Foundation that was created in 1988 and served as vice-president of the International Amateur Athletics Foundation (IAAF) from 1976-1986. Right now he serves as an adjunct professor for Olympic Sports history at the University of Indianapolis and is the president of the Indiana Olympian Association.
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Olympic 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 United States: Alvin Harrison, Antonio Pettigrew, Calvin Harrison, Michael Johnson · 2004 United States: Otis Harris, Derrick Brew, Jeremy Wariner, Darold Williamson
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