Oliver MacDonald

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Olympic medal record
Men's athletics
Competitor for the United States
Gold	1924 Paris	4x400 m relay

Joseph Oliver MacDonald (February 20, 1904 - April 14, 1973) was an American athlete, winner of gold medal in 4x400 m relay at the 1924 Summer Olympics.

At the Paris Olympics, Oliver MacDonald ran the third leg in the American 4x400 m relay team, which won the gold medal with a new world record of 3.16.0.

Oliver MacDonald graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1927. He died in Flemington, New Jersey.

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)

Persondata
Name	Macdonald, Oliver
Alternative names
Short description	Athletics (sport) competitor
Date of birth	February 20, 1904
Place of birth
Date of death	April 14, 1973
Place of death