Meredith Rainey-Valmon

{{short description|American middle-distance runner}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=January 2015}}

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| name = Meredith Rainey-Valmon

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| full_name = Meredith Lee Rainey

| birth_date = {{birth-date and age|October 15, 1968}}

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

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{{Medal|Sport | Women's athletics }}

{{Medal|Country | the {{USA}} }}

{{Medal|Competition | Pan American Games }}

{{Medal|Gold | 1995 Mar del Plata | 800 metres }}

{{Medal|Bronze | 1999 Winnipeg | 800 metres }}

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Meredith Lee Rainey-Valmon (born October 15, 1968, in Brooklyn, New York) is an American runner who specialized in the 800 metres.

Her personal best time was 1:57.04 minutes, achieved at the 1996 Olympic Trials. She is also a two-time Olympian, in 1992 and 1996.{{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ra/meredith-rainey-1.html |title=Meredith Rainey |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418033608/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ra/meredith-rainey-1.html |archive-date=2020-04-18}} In 1996, she married fellow US Olympian, 400m runner and 1992 Olympic 4x400 gold medalist Andrew Valmon.

Running for Harvard University, she dominated Ivy League competition{{Cite web|url=http://ivyleague.com/sports/2017/7/28/history-blackhistory-2011-12-meredith-rainey-valmon.aspx|title = The Ivy Influence: Meredith Rainey Valmon}} and won two NCAA Championships in the 800 meters in 1989, Indoors and Outdoors.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/07/20/sports/sports-of-the-times-a-sense-of-love-and-values.html|title=Sports of the Times; A Sense of Love and Values|newspaper=The New York Times|date=July 20, 1991|last1=Rhoden|first1=William C.}} She graduated in 1990.