Maxie Parks

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Olympic medal record
Men's Athletics
Gold	1976 Montreal	4x400m relay

Maxwell Lander ("Maxie") Parks (born July 9, 1951) is a former American athlete from Fresno, California, winner of a gold medal in 4x400 m Men's relay with Herman Frazier, Benny Brown, and Fred Newhouse at the 1976 Montreal Olympic Games. In the late 1970s he competed for the UCLA for several years. In 1977 he ran on the World Cup team, anchoring the 1,600m relay team to what appeared to be a runaway victory when he collapsed on the track with a severely pulled hamstring 150m from the finish. He never competed again.

Prior to UCLA he was a graduate of Washington Union High School,^[1] then Fresno City College and was elected into the California Community College Track and Field Hall of Fame^[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, 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: Vacant
2004: United States (Harris, Brew, Wariner, Williamson, Rock, Willie)
2008: United States (Merritt, Taylor, Neville, Wariner, Clement, Witherspoon)

v d e US National Championship winners in Men's 400m

1876-1979 - Amateur Athletic Union	1876-77: Edward Merritt 1878: Frank Brown 1879-84: Lon Myers 1885: H. Mason Raborg 1886: John Robertson 1887: Harvey Banks 1888: Walter Dohm 1888: T.J. Mahoney 1889: Walter Dohm 1890-92: Walter Downs 1893: Edward Allen 1894: Tom Keane 1895-97: Thomas Burke 1898-1900: Maxie Long 1901: Howard Hayes 1902: Fay Moulton 1903: Harry Hillman 1904: D.H. Meyer 1905-06: Frank Waller 1907: John Taylor 1908: Harry Hillman 1909: Edward Lindberg 1910: William Hayes 1911: Edward Lindberg 1912: Thomas Halpin 1913: Carroll Haff 1914-15: Ted Meredith 1916: Thomas Halpin 1917: Frank Shea 1918: Corn. Shaughnessy 1919-20: Frank Shea 1921: William Stevenson 1922: James Driscoll 1923: Horatio Fitch 1924: James Burgess 1925: Cecil Cooke 1926: Ken Kennedy 1927: Hermon Phillips 1928: Ray Barbuti 1929: Reggie Bowen 1930-31: Vic Williams 1932: Bill Carr 1933-34: Ivan Fuqua 1935: Eddie O'Brien 1936: Harold Smallwood 1937-38: Ray Malott 1939: Erwin Miller 1940-41: Grover Klemmer 1942-43: Cliff Bourland 1944: Elmore Harris 1945: Herb McKenley 1946: Elmore Harris 1947-48: Herb McKenley 1949-51: George Rhoden 1952: Mal Whitfield 1953: Jesse Mashburn 1954: Jim Lea 1955: Charles Jenkins 1956: Tom Courtney 1957: Reggie Pearman 1958-59: Eddie Southern 1960-61: Otis Davis 1962-63: Ulis Williams 1964: Mike Larrabee 1965: Ollan Cassell 1966-69: Lee Evans 1970-71: John Smith 1972: Lee Evans 1973-74: Maurice Peoples 1975: Dave Jenkins 1976: Maxie Parks 1977: Robert Taylor 1978: Maxie Parks 1979: Willie Smith

1980-1992 - The Athletics Congress	1980: Willie Smith 1981-82: Cliff Wiley 1983: Sunder Nix 1984-85: Mark Rowe 1986: Darrell Robinson 1987: Butch Reynolds 1988: Tim Simon 1989: Antonio Pettigrew 1990: Steve Lewis 1991: Antonio Pettigrew 1992: Danny Everett

1992 onwards - USA Track & Field	1993: Michael Johnson 1994: Antonio Pettigrew 1995-96: Michael Johnson 1997: Antonio Pettigrew 1998-99: Jerome Young 2000: Michael Johnson 2001: Derrick Brew 2002: Angelo Taylor 2003: Tyree Washington 2004-05: Jeremy Wariner 2006: Andrew Rock 2007: Angelo Taylor 2008-09: LaShawn Merritt 2010: Greg Nixon 2011: Tony McQuay