Henry Carr, a sprinter who captured two gold medals in the 1964 Tokyo Olympics and later played defensive back for the Giants, died on May 29 in Griffin, Ga. He was 73.
The cause was cancer, said his wife, Glenda.
Carr, one of the leading sprinters of his time, captured a gold medal in the 200 meters with an Olympic-record time of 20.3 seconds, winning by about a yard.
“I didn’t think it was that fast,” he told The Track and Field News. “This was the easiest of my races.”
He also propelled the United States 4x400-meter relay team to gold, running the final leg in 44.