Thane Baker
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| Full name | Walter Thane Baker | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | October 4, 1931 (age 94) Elkhart, Kansas, U.S. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Walter Thane Baker (born October 4, 1931) is an American former sprinter and winner of the gold medal in the 4 × 100 m relay at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia, with a new world record of 39.5 seconds. At those Olympics, Baker also won a silver medal in the 100-meter and a bronze in the 200-meter. At the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, he won a silver medal in the 200-meter.