Lester Carney
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Lester Carney (left) at the 1960 Olympics
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| Full name | Lester Nelson Carney | |||||||||||||||
| Born | March 31, 1934 (age 90) Bellaire, Ohio, U.S. |
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| Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | |||||||||||||||
| Weight | 75 kg (165 lb) | |||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | |||||||||||||||
| Event(s) | Sprint | |||||||||||||||
| Club | Akron Track Club | |||||||||||||||
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| Personal best(s) | 100 yd – 9.6 (1959) 100 m – 10.3 (1956) 200 m – 20.69 (1960) |
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Lester Nelson "Les" Carney (born March 31, 1934) is a retired American sprinter who won a silver medal in the 200 m at the 1960 Olympics, ahead of two teammembers who beat him at the Olympic trials. He won another silver in this event at the 1959 Pan American Games.[1]
Besides athletics Carney also played American football at Ohio University. He was drafted by the Baltimore Colts in 1958 but never played professionally. After retiring from sport he worked as a buyer for a sporting goods company in Akron, Ohio.[1]
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