Track and Field Hall of Famer Greg Foster, a three-time world champion and Olympic silver medalist in the 110-meter hurdles, has died.
Foster won three consecutive World Championship gold medals in the 110m hurdles in 1983, 1987 and 1991. He added an Olympic Silver medal to his long list of accolades after finishing three hundredths of a second behind U.S. teammate Roger Kingdom in the 110m hurdles atHe also won the 1981 World Cup title , the 1986 Goodwill Games and the 1991 World Indoor Championships . Foster retired in 1996 and was inducted into the National Track and Field Hall of Fame in 1998.
World Athletics CEO Jon Ridgeon, who finished second behind Foster in the 110m at the 1987 World Championships, remembered Foster as"a fierce competitor on the track." “As a young athlete at the start of my career in the mid 1980s, Greg was well established as one of the true legends of the sprint hurdles,” Ridgeon said in a“I therefore found myself in the slightly strange position of competing against someone who for many years had been one of my role models and heroes within the sport."
He continued: “I remember that I found Greg exactly as you would want your athletics hero to be – a fierce competitor on the track but always a warm, generous and friendly man away from the intensity of competition. So sad that Greg has passed at such a young age.”
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