Lennox Valencia Miller (8 October 19468 November 2004) was a Jamaican runner and father of Inger Miller.
Career
Miller won the silver medal in the 100 meters in the 1968 Summer Olympics and the bronze in the 1972 Summer Olympics, also in the 100.
He and Inger are the first father-daughter to win Olympic track and field medals. He was her coach prior to her winning gold in the 1996 Summer Olympics. Both ran for the University of Southern California, where Miller earned a degree in psychology and graduated from the dental school. He had been a dentist in Pasadena for 30 years.
While at USC, Miller anchored the still standing World Record 4x110 yard relay at the NCAA Men's Outdoor Track and Field Championships, held at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. The Imperial distance became defunct as the IAAF now only recognizes metric races (except the one Mile run), so the event is rarely run and not part of elite competition. The record was also complicated because of Miller's Jamaican citizenship, the makeup of the team was not entirely from one country. Miller took the baton from O. J. Simpson. Also on the team was future NFL star Earl McCullouch.
International competitions
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!colspan="6"|Representing
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|1965
|British West Indies Championships
|Bridgetown, Barbados
|bgcolor=gold|1st
|100 m
|10.6
|-
|rowspan=2|1966
|Central American and Caribbean Games
|San Juan, Puerto Rico
| –
|100 m
|DNF
|-
|British Empire and Commonwealth Games
|Kingston, Jamaica
|16th (sf)
|100 y
|10.7
|-
|rowspan=2|1968
|rowspan=2|Olympic Games
|rowspan=2|Mexico City, Mexico
|bgcolor=silver|2nd
|100 m
|10.04
|-
|4th
|4 × 100 m relay
|38.4
|-
|rowspan=2|1970
|rowspan=2|British Commonwealth Games
|rowspan=2|Edinburgh, United Kingdom
|bgcolor=silver|2nd
|100 m
|10.32 (W)
|-
|bgcolor=gold|1st
|4 × 100 m relay
|39.46
|-
|rowspan=4|1971
|rowspan=2|Central American and Caribbean Championships
|rowspan=2|Kingston, Jamaica
|bgcolor=silver|2nd
|100 m
|10.2
|-
|bgcolor=gold|1st
|4 × 100 m relay
|39.2
|-
|rowspan=2|Pan American Games
|rowspan=2|Cali, Colombia
|bgcolor=silver|2nd
|100 m
|10.32
|-
|bgcolor=gold|1st
|4 × 100 m relay
|39.28
|-
|1972
|Olympic Games
|Munich, West Germany
|bgcolor=cc9966|3rd
|100 m
|10.33
|-
|rowspan=2|1974
|rowspan=2|British Commonwealth Games
|rowspan=2|Christchurch, New Zealand
|9th (sf)
|100 m
|10.63
|-
|4th
|4 × 100 m relay
|39.77
|}
References
- Obituary at IAAF.org