Donald Quarrie

(1951- ) lived in Lincoln. Track and field athlete, won gold medal in 200-meter and silver medal in 100-meter sprint events during 1976 Olympics, won bronze medal in 200-meter sprint in 1980 Olympics, and silver medal in 400-meter relay in 1984 Olympics, all for Jamaica; participated for University of Nebraska-Lincoln track team during 1969-70 school year. Consult Sunday /Omaha/ World Herald Magazine of the Midlands, March 28, 1971, pp. 6-7 and New York Times, July 27, 1976, pp. 23-24 and James Page, Black Olympian Medalists (Libraries Unlimited, 1991) 95-96 and Great Athletes: The Twentieth Century (Salem Press, 1992) 2051-2053.

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