Mark Lutz (athlete)
Mark Edward Lutz (born December 23, 1951, in Minneapolis, Minnesota) is an American former sprinter.[1] He ran for his home country in the 200 metres at the 1976 Summer Olympics, finishing 5th in his qualifying heat.
Biography
Lutz studied at the
United States Olympic Trials.[3]
He was renowned at the time he was running for being one of the very few white sprinters at the elite level in the U.S. Lutz won a gold medal at the
4x400 metres relay. That same year he was runner up at the USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships in the 200 metres.[4]
In 1976, and now attending
Long Beach State University,[5] Lutz qualified for the 200 m at the 1976 Montreal Olympics by finishing third at the trials. Lutz was a surprise qualifier. He was even last at the turn in the final, overtaking the more highly fancied Steve Riddick only in the closing stages.[3][6] His American teammates Millard Hampton and Dwayne Evans
went on to medal in the competition, finishing second and third respectively.
In 1976 he was married to distance star and both a Pacific Coast Club teammate and Long Beach State University classmate
Francie Larrieu.[7] She hyphenated her name during the period they were married. They divorced in 1978.[8] He later married hurdler Patrice Donnelly, also a Montreal Olympian.[9]
References
- ^ "Profile". all-athletics.com. Retrieved May 25, 2012.
- ^ http://jayhawks.org/kuhoa-dev/full.php?action=personDetail&id=13449 Archived March 4, 2016, at the Wayback Machine Mark Lutz, jayhawks.org. Retrieved October 12, 2012.
- ^ a b http://www.legacy.usatf.org/statistics/champions/OlympicTrials/HistoryOfTheOlympicTrials.pdf The History of the United States Olympic Trials - Track & Field, R Hymans, USA Track & Field, 2008
- ^ "Track & Field News: A History of the Results of the National Track & Field Championships of the USA from 1876 Through 2003". Archived from the original on June 9, 2013. Retrieved June 17, 2012. A History Of The Results Of The National Track & Field Championships Of The USA From 1876 Through 2003, Track and Field News.
- ^ http://www.longbeachstate.com/trads/olympic.html Archived November 6, 2016, at the Wayback Machine Traditions, Long Beach State Athletics.
- ^ https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1696&dat=19760622&id=FSMqAAAAIBAJ&sjid=0UYEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6665,3271362 "At Olympic Trials in Eugene", Keny Doney, Daily News, June 22, 1976.
- ^ https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=266&dat=19751215&id=0OorAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ymgFAAAAIBAJ&pg=2302,6774142 Kentucky New Era - December 15, 1975 P.140
- ^ http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1004011/2/index.htm "A Long Run Gets Longer", Sports Illustrated, July 22, 1992.
- ^ Mark Lutz at Sports Reference
