Young won the 400m hurdles event setting then a club record. Never "officially" retiring, Young simply marveled in the exploits of the newer talented group of hurdlers respecting their feats and his own achievements. He was inducted into the United States Track & Field Hall of Fame in 2006. Personal life Young is a member of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity. Young is an artist with work on display through the Art of the Olympians. In December 2019 Young, while a student at Swansea University, was involved in a road traffic crash in which he was the passenger on a double-decker bus that collided with a railway bridge on Neath Road in Swansea, South Wales. Young suffered a head injury and two broken ribs. One of eight people hurt, he tried to pull the windscreen off a woman passenger who remained conscious but later died. References 1966 births Living people African-American male track and field athletes American male hurdlers Athletes (track and field) at the 1988 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 1992 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for the United States in track and field UCLA Bruins men's track and field athletes World Athletics Championships medalists Track and field athletes from Los Angeles Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 1987 Pan American Games Pan American Games silver medalists for the United States Pan American Games medalists in athletics (track and field) World Athletics Championships athletes for the United States Goodwill Games medalists in athletics Track & Field News Athlete of the Year winners IAAF World Athlete of the Year World Athletics Championships winners Competitors at the 1986 Goodwill Games Medalists at the 1987 Pan American Games World record setters in athletics (track and field) 21st-century African-American people 20th-century African-American sportspeople