:Andrew Valmon

{{short description|American former 400 meters runner (born 1965)}}

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|fullname = Andrew Orlando Valmon

|birth_date = {{birth-date and age|January 1, 1965}}

|birth_place = Brooklyn, New York, U.S.

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{{MedalSport|Men's athletics}}

{{MedalCountry|the {{USA}} }}

{{MedalCompetition|Olympic Games}}

{{MedalGold|1988 Seoul|4 × 400 m relay}}

{{MedalGold|1992 Barcelona|4 × 400 m relay}}

{{MedalCompetition|World Championships}}

{{MedalGold|1993 Stuttgart|4 × 400 m relay}}

{{MedalSilver|1991 Tokyo|4 × 400 m relay}}

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Andrew Orlando Valmon (born January 1, 1965) is an American former 400 meters runner.

Valmon was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised in Manchester Township, New Jersey, where he attended Manchester Township High School.Denman, Elliott. [https://ny.milesplit.com/articles/60493/new-jerseys-andrew-valmon-named-olympic-coach "New Jersey's Andrew Valmon named Olympic coach"], MileSplitNy. February 18, 2011. Retrieved October 11, 2019. "The 20-something young man was Andrew Valmon, the graduate of Manchester Township High School, just a few miles east of Lakehurst, and of South Orange, NJ’s Seton Hall University, who’d run a sizzling 4 × 400 relay leadoff leg in the semifinals at Seoul (thus earning a gold when USA took the final.)" He attended college at Seton Hall University and graduated in 1987 with a degree in communications.{{cite web|url=https://www.nmnathletics.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=756610&SPID=120715&DB_LANG=C&ATCLID=207326224&DB_OEM_ID=29700|title=Andrew Valmon|publisher=University of Maryland|access-date=October 11, 2019}}

Valmon won the silver medal at the World Indoor Athletics Championships in 1991 in Seville. In 1992 he won a gold medal with the American 4 × 400 m relay team at the Olympic Games in Barcelona. The same year, Valmon set his personal best of 44.28 seconds.

He is now the track & field head coach at the University of Maryland, and coaches a summer camp at the university. He is married to Meredith Rainey, who is also an Olympic runner.{{cite web|url=https://www.legacy.usatf.org/athletes/bios/TrackAndFieldArchive/2000/valmon.html|title=Meredith Rainey-Valmon|publisher=USA Track & Field|access-date=October 11, 2019}} Valmon is a member of the Phi Beta Sigma fraternity.{{cite web|author=Sutcliffe, Jessica|url=http://www.thesetonian.com/2010/10/13/phi-beta-sigma-values-participation-in-service-and-community/|title=Phi Beta Sigma values participation in service and community|date=October 13, 2010|access-date=October 11, 2019}}