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3-time Olympic gold medalist Bobby Joe Morrow dies at 84

Three-time Olympic gold medalist Bobby Joe Morrow died on Saturday of natural causes at his home in Texas, his family told the Associated Press. He was 84.

Morrow won the gold medal in both the 100-meter and the 200-meter races at the 1956 Olympics in Melbourne, and anchored the 400-meter relay team that won a gold medal and set a world record in the process. Morrow ran the 200-meter in just 20.6 seconds that day, too, which matched the world record.

Morrow won his three medals while he was a student at Abilene Christian University, too, just months after he swept the sprints at the national college championships. He defended his AAU 100-yard title that year, too, per the report.

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Following the Olympics in Australia, Morrow was named Sports Illustrated’s “Sportsman of the Year.” He was inducted into the National Track and Field Hall of Fame in 1989.

The Rio Grande Valley area native ran track and played football at San Benito High School, too, and had the football stadium there named after him.

Thane Baker, of the United States, hands to Bobby Joe Morrow for the last baton change in the first heat of the first round of the 4 x 100 meter relay at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia. Morrow, the Texas sprinter who won three gold medals in the 1956 Melbourne Olympics while a student at Abilene Christian University, died Saturday, May 30, 2020. He was 84.

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