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 Baird in 1928 | ||||||||||||
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| Born | March 5, 1907 Grand Island, Nebraska, United States | |||||||||||
| Died | September 4, 2004 (aged 97) Rhinebeck, New York, United States | |||||||||||
| Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | |||||||||||
| Weight | 66 kg (146 lb) | |||||||||||
| Sport | ||||||||||||
| Sport | Track | |||||||||||
| Event | 400 m | |||||||||||
| College team | Iowa | |||||||||||
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George Hetzel Baird (March 5, 1907 – September 4, 2004) was an American sprint runner who won a gold medal in 4 × 400 m relay at the 1928 Summer Olympics, breaking the world record in the process. A week later he helped to set another world record, at 3:13.4 in the 4×440 yard relay in London. Baird graduated from the University of Iowa and later took various jobs during the Great Depression. He assisted his brother Bill as a puppeteer, and later became an assistant professor of education at the New York University.
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