David Neville (sprinter)

David Neville is an American 400 metres runner, born on 1 June 1984 in Merrillville, Indiana. He ran for Indiana University from 2003 to 2006, winning several individual Big Ten titles and earning All-American honours, and later became the first individual track and field medalist from that university since Willie May in 1960. At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing he won the bronze medal in the men's 400 metres in 44.80 seconds. He then ran in the United States team for the 4 x 400 metres relay alongside LaShawn Merritt, Angelo Taylor and Jeremy Wariner, which won gold in an Olympic record of 2:55.39, with Neville covering his leg in a 44.16 second split. After his racing career he moved into college coaching, with posts at Taylor University, the University of Tennessee and Georgia Southern, and in 2016 he took part in the television contest American Grit, finishing sixth.