Funeral arrangements are set for Olympic gold medalist, Phenix City native Harvey Glance

Mark Rice
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Harvey Glance is coming home to Phenix City. The funeral arrangements for the Olympic gold medalist are set.

Glance’s funeral will be June 24, starting at 10 a.m. EDT, at Franchise Missionary Baptist Church, 1000 Dillingham St., in Phenix City, Alabama. Interment will follow in Lakeview Memory Gardens, 3800 Highway 280, in Phenix City.

Patricia Glance, his sister, told the Ledger-Enquirer, visitation will be at Taylor Funeral Home, 1514 Fifth Ave., in Phenix City on June 23, from noon to 5 p.m..

Glance died Monday at a hospital in Mesa, Arizona, after suffering cardiac arrest earlier this month. He was 66.

As part of the Team USA men’s 400-meter relay team, Glance won a gold medal at the 1976 Olympics in Montreal. Also that year, he twice equaled the then-world record of 9.9 seconds in the 100 meters and won the NCAA championship in that event and the 200 for Auburn. The following year, Glance again won the NCAA title in the 100.

He was the first sprinter to qualify for U.S. Olympic track team three times in a row.

Glance won 14 Southeastern Conference titles for Auburn. He also coached track and field team at Auburn (1991-96, the university’s first Black head coach of any sport) and Alabama (1997-2011) as well as several national teams and Olympians, including gold medalist Kirani James.