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Born in Detroit, Michigan, Quincy Watts attended the University of Southern California where he excelled not only as an athlete but also as a wide receiver in the college football team. He was also a promising basketball player in high school.
At first, Watts was a short sprinter, specializing for 100 m and 200 m, but the USC coach Jim Bush , convinced him to run 400 m, where he found his success.
In 1992, by far his most successful year, he won the Olympic 400 m title. He twice broke Lee Evans' Olympic record of 43.86, (set at altitude during the 1968 games in Mexico), clocking 43.71 in his semi-final, before going on to record 43.50 in the final. He was a member of the 4 x 400 m relay team, running the second leg in 43.10, which smashed the world recordA world record is the best performance in a certain discipline, usually a sports event. In the United States the form world's record was formerly more common. In a number of sports, such as athletics or swimming world records are set in a number of events in a time of 2:55.74.
At the World ChampionshipsThe World Championships in Athletics is an event organized by the International Association of Athletics Federations. It is the largest event in the world after the Olympic Games, and the Football World Cup finals. Originally, it was organised every four in 19911991 like 2002, is a palindromic year. It also has the same calendar as 2002, including Easter on March 31. It is a common year starting on Tuesday. Events January January 2 Sharon Pratt Dixon is sworn in as mayor of Washington, DC becoming the first blac, Watts won a silver medal in 4x400 relay, which he turned to gold in the next championships in 19931993 is a common year starting on Friday and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003 Events January January 1 Czechoslovakia divides. Establishment of independent Slovakia and Czech Republic..
In 19941994 is a common year starting on Saturday, and was designated the International year of the Family''. Events January events January 1 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) goes into effect January 6 Nancy Kerrigan is clubbed on the right leg by an and 19951995 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). It has a Golden number of 1, and was the first year of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous People (1995- 2005): http://www. org/culture/indigenous . Events January events Ja he failed to break 45 secondThis article is about the unit of time. See second (disambiguation) for other uses The second (symbol s is a unit for time, and one of seven SI base units. It is defined as the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transis and in 19961996 was a leap year starting on Monday (see link for calendar), and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty''. Events January January 5 Hamas operative Yahya Ayyash is killed by an Israeli-planted booby-trapped cell phone Jan finished a disappointing seventh in the US Olympic trials in a time of 45.64. Overshadowed by Michael Johnson, he retired in 1997 and was hired as the head coach to Taft Highschool.
| Olympic medalists in athletics (men) | Olympic Champions in Men's 400 m |
| Tom Burke | Maxey Long | Harry Hillman | Paul Pilgrim | Wyndham Halswelle | Charles Reidpath | Bevil Rudd | Eric Liddell | Ray Barbuti | Bill Carr | Archie Williams | Arthur Wint | George Rhoden | Charlie Jenkins | Otis Davis | Michael Larrabee | Lee Evans | Vincent Matthews | Alberto Juantorena | Viktor Markin | Alonzo Babers | Steve Lewis | Quincy Watts | Michael Johnson (twice) | Jeremy Wariner |
| Olympic medalists in athletics (men) | Olympic Champions in Men's 4x400 m relay
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| 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 , James 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 |
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