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{{short description|American former 400 meters runner (born 1965)}}
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|fullname       = Andrew Orlando Valmon
|birth_date     = {{birth-date and age|January 1, 1965}}
|birth_place    = [[Brooklyn]], [[New York (state)|New York]], U.S.
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{{MedalSport|Men's [[Athletics (sport)|athletics]]}}
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{{MedalCompetition|[[Athletics at the Summer Olympics|Olympic Games]]}}
{{MedalGold|[[1988 Summer Olympics|1988 Seoul]]|[[Athletics at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Men's 4 × 400 metres relay|4 × 400 m relay]]}}
{{MedalGold|[[1992 Summer Olympics|1992 Barcelona]]|[[Athletics at the 1992 Summer Olympics – Men's 4 × 400 metres relay|4 × 400 m relay]]}}
{{MedalCompetition|[[IAAF World Championships in Athletics|World Championships]]}}
{{MedalGold|[[1993 World Championships in Athletics|1993 Stuttgart]]|[[1993 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 4 × 400 metres relay|4 × 400 m relay]]}}
{{MedalSilver|[[1991 World Championships in Athletics|1991 Tokyo]]|[[1991 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 4 × 400 metres relay|4 × 400 m relay]]}}
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'''Andrew Orlando Valmon''' (born January 1, 1965) is an American former [[400 meters]] runner.

Valmon was born in [[Brooklyn]], [[New York (state)|New York]], and raised in [[Manchester Township, New Jersey]], where he attended [[Manchester Township High School]].<ref>Denman, Elliott. [https://ny.milesplit.com/articles/60493/new-jerseys-andrew-valmon-named-olympic-coach "New Jersey's Andrew Valmon named Olympic coach"], MileSplitNy. February 18, 2011. Retrieved October 11, 2019. "The 20-something young man was Andrew Valmon, the graduate of Manchester Township High School, just a few miles east of Lakehurst, and of South Orange, NJ’s Seton Hall University, who’d run a sizzling 4 × 400 relay leadoff leg in the semifinals at Seoul (thus earning a gold when USA took the final.)"</ref> He attended college at [[Seton Hall University]] and graduated in 1987 with a degree in communications.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nmnathletics.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=756610&SPID=120715&DB_LANG=C&ATCLID=207326224&DB_OEM_ID=29700|title=Andrew Valmon|publisher=University of Maryland|access-date=October 11, 2019}}</ref>

Valmon won the silver medal at the [[1991 IAAF World Indoor Championships|World Indoor Athletics Championships in 1991]] in Seville. In 1992 he won a gold medal with the American 4 × 400 m relay team at the [[1992 Summer Olympics|Olympic Games]] in Barcelona. The same year, Valmon set his personal best of 44.28 seconds.

He is now the track & field head coach at the [[University of Maryland]], and coaches a summer camp at the university. He is married to [[Meredith Rainey-Valmon|Meredith Rainey]], who is also an Olympic runner.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.legacy.usatf.org/athletes/bios/TrackAndFieldArchive/2000/valmon.html|title=Meredith Rainey-Valmon|publisher=[[USA Track & Field]]|access-date=October 11, 2019}}</ref> Valmon is a member of the [[Phi Beta Sigma]] fraternity.<ref>{{cite web|author=Sutcliffe, Jessica|url=http://www.thesetonian.com/2010/10/13/phi-beta-sigma-values-participation-in-service-and-community/|title=Phi Beta Sigma values participation in service and community|date=October 13, 2010|access-date=October 11, 2019}}</ref>

==Georgetown University==
From 1999 to 2003 Valmon was an assistant track coach at [[Georgetown University]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://findingaids.library.georgetown.edu/repositories/12/archival_objects/1395932|title=Andrew Valmon: Assistant Track Coach., December 20, 2001.|publisher=Georgetown University|access-date=October 11, 2019}}</ref>

==University of Maryland Track and Field==
Eleventh season as track coach.
During his tenure as head coach, 50+ student-athletes have earned All-American honors for their athletic performances. Maryland track and field athletes consistently rank among the top of their peers with the cross country program earning the school's award for the highest team GPA three years in a row, in 2013, 2014, and 2015.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://umterps.com/coaches.aspx?rc=229&path=track|title=Andrew Valmon|publisher=University of Maryland|access-date=October 11, 2019}}</ref>

==2012 London Olympics==
Valmon named United States Head Track and Field coach on February 11, 2011.<ref>{{cite news|access-date=October 11, 2019|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/17/AR2011021706933.html|title=Maryland's Andrew Valmon named U.S. track and field head coach for 2012 London Olympics|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|date=February 18, 2011}}</ref>

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*{{Olympedia}}
*{{Olympics.com|andrew-valmon}}
*{{World Athletics}}

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{{Footer USA Track & Field 2012 Summer Olympics}}
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