Two-time Olympic sprint medalist Lennox Miller died of cancer Monday
in Pasadena, Calif. He was 58. Services are pending. An Olympic sprinter who won a silver medal in 1968 and a bronze in
1972 in the 100-meters for Jamaica, Miller was a member of two
University of Southern California track and field NCAA championship
teams and a part of the reigning world-record 440-yard relay squad.
He is survived by his wife, Avril, and two daughters, Heather and Inger.
A USC track alum herself, Inger won a gold medal in the women's
4x100m relay at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta. The 1999 World
Outdoor Championships 200m gold medalist, Inger is also a two-time
world outdoor 4x100m relay champion.
Born in Kingston, Jamaica, Lennox Miller lettered for Trojan coach Vern
Wolfe's squad from 1967-69. He holds the school record for the 100-
yard dash (9.2 seconds) and ran the anchor leg on USC's sprint relay
team that--along with Earl McCullouch, Fred Kuller and O.J. Simpson--
won the 1967 NCAA title with a still-standing world record for 440 yards
(38.6). Miller was the NCAA 100-yard dash runner-up in 1967 and the
100m champion in 1968 as the Trojans won NCAA team titles both
years. Miller's 47 career NCAA championship points is the third-best
total in USC history.
After the 1968 collegiate season, Miller competed for Jamaica at the
Mexico City Olympics, winning the silver medal in the 100m dash. He
set the world record in the indoor 100-yard dash in 1969, the same year
he was USC's team captain. He was ranked in the top three in the world
in the 100-meter dash for three straight years (1967-69), then went on to
win a 100m bronze medal at the 1972 Munich Olympics. He remains
one of the greatest sprinters in USC's storied track and field history.
Miller graduated from the USC School of Dentistry in 1973, then ran a
successful dental practice in Pasadena for the next 30 years.