Editing Bobby Morrow (section)

==Career==
Morrow won the 1955 [[Amateur Athletic Union|AAU]] 100-yard title. His most successful season was in 1956, when he was chosen by ''[[Sports Illustrated]]'' as "[[Sportsman of the Year]]".<ref name=AP/> Morrow won the sprint double in the national college championships and defended his AAU title. Morrow then went to the [[1956 Summer Olympics]] in [[Melbourne]], where he won three gold medals and was the leader of the American sprint team. First, he was victorious in the [[100 metres|100-meter dash]]. He then led an American [[List of medal sweeps in Olympic athletics|sweep of the medals]] in the [[200 metres|200-meter dash]], while equaling the [[world record]] at that distance with a time of 20.6 seconds (unofficially auto-timed at 20.75). He won his third gold by anchoring the [[4 × 100 metres relay|4 × 100-meter relay]] team to a world record time.<ref name=SR/><ref name=tf/><ref>[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=uNJaAAAAIBAJ&sjid=NJIDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6077%2C2318855 Morrow—and a day of medal memories, ''The Age'', (Wednesday, 12 February 1975), p.1.]</ref> He was the first sprinter since [[Jesse Owens]] in [[Athletics at the 1936 Summer Olympics|1936]] to win gold medals in those three events.<ref name=EB>{{cite encyclopedia|encyclopedia=Encyclopedia Britannica|title=Bobby Joe Morrow|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Bobby-Joe-Morrow|date=October 11, 2019|access-date=May 30, 2020|publisher=Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc.}}</ref>

Morrow achieved great fame after winning his three gold medals, and was featured on the covers of ''[[Life (magazine)|Life]]'' and ''[[SPORT (magazine)|SPORT]]'', as well as ''Sports Illustrated''. He appeared on ''[[The Ed Sullivan Show]]'' and ''[[Arthur Godfrey and His Friends]]'', and addressed a joint session of the [[Texas legislature]].<ref name=TM>{{cite news|last=Martin|first=William|title=The Fastest Nice Christian Boy in the World: Then Bobby Morrow Lost His Speed and He Began to Have Certain Doubts|newspaper=[[Texas Monthly]]|location=[[Austin, Texas]]|pages=114–201|date=August 1984|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bSsEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA116}}</ref>

Morrow's success on a national level continued after the Olympics, but he retired in 1958 to become a farmer and a woodworker. He made a short comeback before the [[1960 Summer Olympics|1960 Olympic Games]], but failed to qualify for the U.S. Olympic team.<ref name=Martin/>