caption death_date death_place club birth_place weight image_size height pb sport birth_date image article_title
paul drayton -lrb- left -rrb- at the 1964 olympics march 2 , 2010 -lrb- aged 70 -rrb- cleveland , ohio , united states u.s. army villanova wildcats glen cove , new york , united states 73 kg lb on 260px 1.83 m ftin on 100 -- 10.2 -lrb- 1962 -rrb- 200 m -- 20.55 -lrb- yd 1962 -rrb- 440 yd -- 47.2 -lrb- 1964 -rrb- -- 9.3 -lrb- 1961 -rrb- 100 m sprint running may 8 , 1939 paul drayton , henry carr , edwin roberts 1964.jpg paul drayton -lrb- athlete -rrb-

paul drayton -lrb- athlete -rrb-

otis paul drayton -lrb- may 8 , 1939 -- march 2 , 2010 -rrb- was an american sprint runner .
he was an aau champion in the sprint from 1961 to 1963 .
in 1961 , he was a member of the world record of 39.1 seconds setting american 4 × 100 m relay team , and equaled the 200 m world record of 20.5 s in 1962 .
at the 1964 olympics , drayton won a silver medal in the 200 m and ran the opening leg for the gold medal winning american 4 × 100 m relay team , which set a world record at 39.06 seconds .
in retirement drayton lived with his wife near cleveland , ohio , where he worked as deputy project director for the city 's division of recreation and then at the sheriff 's department .
he died on march 2 , 2010 , of a pulmonary embolism following cancer surgery .
