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Valerie
Brisco winning three gold medals at the 1984 Olympic Games
was honored by USA Track & Field as the 15th
greatest moment in U.S. track and field history in the last
25 years.
At the 1984
Olympic Games in Los Angeles, held just miles from her home
at that time, Valerie Brisco became the first athlete, male
or female, to complete an Olympic 200m/400m double.
She set
American records in winning both individual events, running
21.81 seconds in the 200m, and becoming the first woman
outside of Eastern Europe to break 49 seconds in the 400m
with her winning time of 48.83 seconds. She won her third
gold medal when she ran on the U.S. 4x400m relay team that
set an American record with its winning time of 3:18.28. In
1988, Brisco won her fourth Olympic medal when she ran the
third leg on the U.S. 4x400m relay team that broke the world
record but finished second to the USSR team.
A former
world indoor record holder in the 400 meters, Brisco was
inducted into the National Track & Field Hall of Fame in
1995.
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