- Derek Mills
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Derek Mills Personal information Born July 9, 1972 Medal recordMen's Athletics Competitor for the 
United StatesOlympic Games Gold 1996 Atlanta 4x400 m relay World Championships Gold 1995 Gothenburg 4x400 m relay Derek Mills (born July 9, 1972 in Washington, D.C.) was a 1996 Olympic Games gold medalist in the men's 4x400 meter relay for the United States. He has a career best of 44.13 in the 400m. After going to college at Georgia Tech in Atlanta and winning the 1994 NCAA Championship in the 400m at Boise, Mills ran to a #2 World Ranking behind Michael Johnson - breaking 45.00 seven times that year.
Mills received his JD from Tulane Law School and his MBA from the A.B. Freeman School of Business at Tulane University in 2006. He is currently an assistant track and field coach at Tulane University in New Orleans, LA.[1]
References
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, Chernetsky, 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)
World Champions in Men's 4×400 m Relay 1983: Soviet Union • 1987: United States • 1991: Great Britain • 1993 – 1995: United States 1997: Great Britain • 1999: Poland • 2001: Bahamas • 2003: France • 2005 – 2011: United States
1995: United States (Marlon Ramsey, Derek Mills, Butch Reynolds & Michael Johnson)Notes
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