LaMont Smith
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| Born | December 11, 1972 | ||||||||||||||
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| Country |  United States | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | Track | ||||||||||||||
Event | Sprints | ||||||||||||||
| College team | Houston Cougars | ||||||||||||||
| Club | Santa Monica Track Club | ||||||||||||||
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| Personal best | 400 m: 44.30 (Atlanta 1996)[1] | ||||||||||||||
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LaMont Smith (born December 11, 1972) is a former 1996 Olympic Games gold medalist in the men's 4 × 400 meter relay for the United States.
Raised in Willingboro Township, New Jersey, Smith is a graduate of Willingboro High School, the same school as Carl Lewis, who also won a gold medal at the same Olympics. While at Willingboro, Smith won nine state championships.[2] He attended Blinn College, where he was a 4 time NJCAA national champion before transferring to the University of Houston.[3] A decade younger than Lewis, Smith joined Lewis on the Santa Monica Track Club. Lamont became a member of Phi Beta Sigma fraternity in 1996.
