Roles | Competed in Olympic Games |
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Sex | Male |
Full name | Lawrence Ronald "Larry"•Questad |
Used name | Larry•Questad |
Born | 10 July 1943 in Livingston, Montana (USA) |
Died | 29 October 2020 in Boise, Idaho (USA) |
Measurements | 188 cm / 84 kg |
Affiliations | Southern California Striders, Anaheim (USA) |
NOC | United States |
Larry Questad was NCAA 100 yard champion in 1963, and was runner-up that year in the 220 yards to Henry Carr. Questad ran for Stanford and the Southern Cal Striders. After earning All-American honors at Stanford, he graduated in 1966 and then earned an MBA from Southern Cal in 1968. He was later inducted as a member of the Stanford Athletic Hall of Fame. Questad won the 100 and 200 at the 1963 World Games in Helsinki.
Questad became a mechanical engineer with IBM, working in Raleigh, North Carolina; San Antonio, Texas; and Princeton, New Jersey; before settling in Boise, Idaho. He later purchased Superior Steel Products, in Caldwell, Idaho, which made storage and transportation tanks, a company he sold to his sons in 2011.
Personal Bests: 100 – 10.0 (1968); 200 – 20.28 (1968); 400 – 48.7 (1963).
Games | Discipline (Sport) / Event | NOC / Team | Pos | Medal | As | |
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1968 Summer Olympics | Athletics | USA | Larry Questad | |||
200 metres, Men (Olympic) | 6 | |||||
4 × 100 metres Relay, Men (Olympic) | United States |