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Nationality | Canadian | ||||||||||||||
Born | Quebec City, Quebec, Canada | 3 October 1935||||||||||||||
Died | 23 June 2017 Houston, Texas, US | (aged 81)||||||||||||||
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Sport | Sprinting | ||||||||||||||
Event | 400 metres | ||||||||||||||
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Laird Sloan (3 October 1935 – 23 June 2017) [1] was a Canadian sprinter. He competed in the men's 400 metres at the 1956 Summer Olympics. He finished second in the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games 4 x 440 yards relay (with Terry Tobacco, Doug Clement, and Joe Foreman). In the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games Sloan was eliminated in the semi-finals of the 440 yards. [2]
As a student at the University of Michigan, Sloan was a member of Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity. [3]