Donald Augustus Styron (born March 18, 1940) is the world record holder in the 200 meter low hurdles.
He remains the current world record holder partly because the event has not been run frequently by elite athletes since the early 1960s.
They went west down 32nd Avenue to Wheat Ridge High School where they ran for track coach, Lew Hartzog.
On April 2, 1960, in a dual meet against Louisiana State University, the 20-year-old hurdler ran a time of 21.9 for the straight 220 yard low hurdles—which is slightly longer (201.2 meters) than the metric distance recognized worldwide.
The 220 yard Low Hurdles is one of the four events Jesse Owens set or tied World Records in during a 45 minute span on May 25, 1935—what many people have regarded as the greatest sports achievement.
As were all marks from that era, it was recorded by three hand stopwatches, as opposed to today's Fully Automatic Timing (FAT).
Two other people making that top list finished second to Styron, both were Olympic medalists, Dick Howard and Irvin Roberson.
[9] Don's best chance of qualifying was in 1964, but without money, he had to hitchhike from Los Angeles to New Brunswick, New Jersey for the semi-Olympic Trials.