Steve Riddick
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| Birth name | Steven Earl Riddick | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | American | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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September 18, 1951 Newport News, Virginia, United States |
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| Height | 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 165 lb (75 kg) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Running | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event(s) | 100 meters | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| College team | Norfolk State University | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Philadelphia Pioneers | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Personal best(s) | 100 m: 10.05 s (Zürich 1975) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Steven Earl Riddick (born September 18, 1951) is an American athlete and winner of the gold medal in 4×100 meter relay at the 1976 Summer Olympics.
Riddick was raised in Hampton, Virginia. His father was a Church of Christ minister there.
Riddick was a late starter in track, concentrating on team sports until his junior year at high school.
After high school, Riddick attended at Norfolk State University, having been recruited by coach Dick Price. There he met his wife Theresita Renee Coleman.
For the last year of his psychology degree course he ran for the Philadelphia Pioneers track club because his college eligibility had ended. It was a move engineered by Coach Price who put Riddick in contact with the Philadelphia Pioneers coach Alex Woodley.
After graduation in 1975, Riddick moved first to Washington D.C. and then Philadelphia and continued to run for the Philadelphia Pioneers club.
Riddick attempted to qualify for the 1972 Munich Olympics but was eliminated at the semi-final stage in both the 100 and 200 m at the United States Olympic Trials.
In 1975, in Zurich, he ran the fastest automatically-timed 100 m of the year at 10.05 s, a time that remained his personal best. He had started that year by causing some amazement and amusement when he ran and won an indoor race in his sweat pants. The reason: he had forgotten his shorts. He won the final in borrowed shorts.
At the 1976 Montreal Olympics, Steven Riddick was eliminated in the semi-final of the 100 m race, but ran the anchor leg in the gold medal winning American 4 × 100 m relay team (with Harvey Glance, Johnny 'Lam' Jones and Millard Hampton). Riddick had finished third in the 100 m final at the United States Olympic Trials. He narrowly missed-out on doubling-up at 200 m at the Olympics by finishing fourth in the 200 final - he was narrowly passed in the closing stages by Mark Lutz.
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