Jack Yerman 1939 -

Jack Yerman

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Jack Yerman

Medal record
Men's athletics
Competitor for the  United States
Olympic Games
	1960 Rome	4×400 metres relay

Jack Lloyd Yerman (born Oroville, California, February 5, 1939) is a former American athlete and winner of the gold medal in the 4×400 m relay at the 1960 Summer Olympics.
Jack Yerman was sixth in the 400 m at the 1959 Pan-American Games and won the silver medal as a member of an American 4×400 m relay team.^[1]
Yerman won the 1960 U.S. Olympic Trials 400 m at Stanford with a time of 46.3, but at the Olympics itself, he only reached the semifinals. Jack Yerman won a gold medal as the lead-off runner with the American 4×400 m relay team and set a new world record of 3:02.2.^[2]
Yerman also played fullback for Berkeley in the Rose Bowl.^[3]
Yerman currently lives in Paradise, California. He is a retired high school teacher and father of four.
Jack Yerman is a Latter-day Saint.^[4] He joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints after his participation in the Olympics.^[5]
"Your Time Will Come: Jack Yerman and His Incredible Journey to the 1960 Olympics" is a book that relates his story from birth through winning the Gold Medal. See bhyerman.wix.com/books.

World Records[edit]

• Mile Relay
• 1600 Meter Relay
• Two Mile Relay
• Distance Medley Relay
• Indoor 400 Meter short track
• 660 yard sprint (unofficial)

Major Events[edit]

• Olympic Gold Medal - 1600 meter relay 1960
• Rose Bowl 1960
• Pan American Games

(only Jack Yerman and Bob Mathias have accomplished all three of the above)

• First US-USSR dual meet, 1958
• Two Time Donkey Derby Champion

[show] v t e 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-Davis, 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, Chernetskiy, 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: Nigeria (Chukwu, Monye, Bada, Udo-Obong, Awazie, Gadzama) 2004: United States (Harris, Brew, Wariner, Williamson, Rock, Willie) 2008: United States (Merritt, Taylor, Neville, Wariner, Clement, Witherspoon) 2012: Bahamas (Brown, Pinder, Mathieu, Miller)

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References[edit]

1. Jump up ^ "United States - 1960 Summer Olympic Medals". databaseolympics.com. Retrieved 19 August 2009. 
2. Jump up ^ "Jack Yerman Biography and Statistics". Sports Reference.com. Retrieved 19 August 2009. 
3. Jump up ^ "Cal sports hall of fame list". Big C (Sport). Retrieved 19 August 2009. 
4. Jump up ^ Turino
5. Jump up ^ LDS Church Almanac, 2009 Edition, p. 326

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• American sprinters
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• Converts to Mormonism
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• University of California, Berkeley alumni
• People from Butte County, California
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