Lennox Miller, second from left, wins the Silver medal (10.04), at the 1968 Mexico Olympics. The winner at far rigth is Jim Hines, in a then WR of 9.95

Lennox Miller dead at 58 Nov. 10, 2004 (This story was taken from the Jamaican Star online) LENNOX MILLER, one of Jamaica's most outstanding Olympic sprinters, is dead. The 58-year-old Miller who had been ailing for some time, died of cancer on Monday in Pasadena, California. The University of Southern California (USC) graduate won silver in the 100m metres at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City and followed that up by earning bronze in the same event at the Munich Games in 1972. In Mexico City, Miller split the American duo of Jim Hines and Charlie Greene in the 100m final to establish a then national record of 10.04 seconds for the sprint. Hines won gold in a world record 9.95 seconds in running the first ever legal sub-10 second mark on electronic timing. Later at the same Games, Miller led the Jamaican sprint relay quartet to a world record equalling 38.6 seconds in the quarter-finals of the event and a world record 38.3 in the semi-finals on the same day. Jamaica (38.4) were fourth in the final won in a world record 38.2 by the Americans. Miller, a brilliant schoolboy athlete while attending Kingston College in the mid-1960s, helped the North Street boys school to several triumphs at the annual inter-secondary championships. He was also one of the first athletes to represent KC at the annual Penn Relays. He also wore national colours at the Commonwealth and Pan American Games. At the Commonwealth Games of 1970 in Edinburgh, Scotland, Miller won silver in the 100m behind countryman Donald Quarrie and was a member of the sprint relay team which mined gold. A year later at the Pan American Games in Cali, Colombia, Miller was again second to Quarrie in the 100m before repeating his gold medal in the sprint relay. Born in Kingston on October 8, 1946, Miller went on to operate a successful 30-year dental practice in California after graduating from the university in 1973. He served as attache for the Jamaica team at the XXIII Olympiad in Los Angeles in 1984. His wife, Avril, and two daughters, Inger and Heather, survive Miller. Inger won the 1999 world championship 200 metres gold and was a member of the U.S. gold medal-winning 4x100 metres relay at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.