Art Bragg

Art Bragg was a top sprinter for Morgan State College in the early 1950s. He was NCAA 100 champion in 1951, and won the AAU 100 in 1950 and 1953-54. He was also AAU 220 champion in 1954, and was runner-up at that distance in 1950 and 1953. At the 1951 Pan American Games, he was silver medalist in both the 100 and 200. In the 1951 Pan American Games 4×100 metres relay he won the gold medal together with the non-Olympians Donald Campbell, Richard Attlesey, and John Voight.

Bragg continued to run until 1956, when he moved to California to work as a deputy probation officer for Los Angeles County until his retirement in 1993. A 1974 inductee of the Morgan State Athletic Hall of Fame, Bragg was made a member of the Maryland State Athletic Hall of Fame in 1975.

Personal Bests: 100 – 10.3 (1953); 200 – 21.2 (1950); 220y – 20.8s (1951).