- Darold Williamson
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Darold Williamson Personal information Full name Darold Andre Williamson Nationality 
United StatesBorn February 19, 1983
San Antonio, TexasHeight 6 ft 2 in (188 cm) Weight 170 lb (77 kg) Sport Sport Running College/university team Baylor University Achievements and titles Personal best(s) 200m: 20.91
400m: 44.27Medal recordMen’s athletics Competitor for United StatesOlympic Games Gold 2004 Athens 4x400 m relay World Championships Gold 2007 Osaka 4x400 m relay Gold 2005 Helsinki 4x400 m relay World Junior Championships Gold 2002 Kingston 400 m Darold Williamson (born February 19, 1983) is an American track athlete.
He ran the anchor leg on the gold medal winning 4x400 meter relay team at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. He is 2005 graduate of Baylor University in Waco, Texas, where he won the Big 12 Conference championship in the 400 meter run three years in a row (2001–2003). He set a personal best of 44.27 seconds in the 400 meter run in the semifinals of the NCAA Outdoor Championships in 2005.[1] He is a 2001 graduate of Business Careers High School in San Antonio, Texas. Williamson was in the foster care program of the State of Texas and is a Preparation for Adult Living(PAL) alumnus.[2]
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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-Davies, 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, Chernetsky, 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: Vacant • 2004: United States (Harris, Brew, Wariner, Williamson, Rock, Willie) • 2008: United States (Merritt, Taylor, Neville, Wariner, Clement, Witherspoon)
World Champions in Men's 4×400 m Relay 1983: Soviet Union • 1987: United States • 1991: Great Britain • 1993 – 1995: United States 1997: Great Britain • 1999: Poland • 2001: Bahamas • 2003: France • 2005 – 2011: United States
2005: United States (Andrew Rock, Derrick Brew, Darold Williamson & Jeremy Wariner)
2007: United States (LaShawn Merritt, Angelo Taylor, Darold Williamson & Jeremy Wariner)1977: West Germany (Krieg, Hofmeister, Schmid, Herrmann) • 1979: United States (Frazier, Green, Smith, Darden) • 1981: United States (McCoy, Wiley, Smith, Darden) • 1985: United States (McCoy, Phillips, Armstead, Franks) • 1989: Americas (Martínez, Menezes, Burnett, Hernández) • 1992: Africa (Lahlou, Matete, Kemboi, Bada) • 1994: Great Britain (McKenzie, Ladejo, Baulch, Black) • 1998: Great Britain (Hylton, Baulch, Baldock, Thomas) • 2002: Americas (Sánchez, Francique, McDonald, Blackwood) • 2006: United States (Ashley, Brew, Merritt, Williamson) • 2010: Americas (Brenes, Jackson, Nixon, Chambers)
Categories:- 1983 births
- Living people
- People from San Antonio, Texas
- African American track and field athletes
- American sprinters
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Olympic track and field athletes of the United States
- Olympic gold medalists for the United States
- Baylor University alumni
- Olympic medalists in athletics (track and field)
- American track and field athletics Olympic medalist stubs
- Texas people stubs
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