Todd Scully | |
Full Name: | Clark Todd Scully |
Nationality: | American |
Sport: | Athletics |
Event: | Racewalking |
Collegeteam: | Lynchburg College Hornets |
Birth Date: | 13 September 1948 |
Birth Place: | Princeton, New Jersey, United States |
Clark Todd Scully (September 13, 1948 – September 6, 2021)[1] was an American racewalker. He competed in the men's 20 kilometres walk at the 1976 Summer Olympics.[2]
He competed on the track and field team at Lynchburg College in the 1960s, and graduated with a chemistry degree in 1970.[3] He later returned to Lynchburg College for a graduate degree in physical education and secondary education in 1975. He is a member of the University of Lynchburg Sports Hall of Fame.[4]
He was selected for the Olympic team in 1980, but the U.S. boycotted the games. A 2014 alumni magazine of Virginia Tech, where he was a graduate student in 1980, described his disappointment: "You just spent four years making progress and improvement, and you end up not being able to use it. Between '76 and '80, I think I set seven world records. ... I was ready to compete."[5]