- Bernard Williams
Bernard R. Williams III (born January 19, 1978) is an American athlete, winner of gold medal in 4x100 m relay at the 2000 Summer Olympics. Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Bernard Williams won the 100 m at the 1999 Pan-American Games. In 2000, Williams won the NCAA Championships in 100 m as a University of Florida student and ran the second leg on the gold medal-winning American 4x100 m relay team at the Sydney Olympics.
- Dean Macey
Dean Macey (born: December 12, 1977 in Rochford, Essex) is an English decathlete. Dean started out in athletics as a triple jumper but graduated up through the octathlon to settle on the decathlon. He was also on the books of Arsenal F.C. as a youngster but gave up football to train for the World Junior Championships in 1995. Macey's major breakthrough was when he won silver medal at the 1999 World Championships in Athletics in the Olympic Stadium, Seville, …
- Angelo Taylor
Angelo F. Taylor (born December 29, 1978) is an American athlete, winner of 400 m hurdles at the 2000 Summer Olympics. Born in Albany, Georgia, Angelo Taylor studied at the Georgia Institute of Technology and won the NCAA title in 1998 and placed second in 1997. In 1998, Taylor also won a silver medal at the US National Championships. He went on to win the title three times from 1999 to 2001. Taylor made his debut at the major tournaments at the 1999 World Championships, …
- Jon Drummond
Jonathan A. "Jon" Drummond is an American athlete, winner of gold medal in 4x100 m relay at the 2000 Summer Olympics. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Jon Drummond is known for being among the world’s best starters. In 1991, Drummond won the 200 m at the World University Games. At the 1993 World Championships, Drummond ran the opening leg on the American 4x100 m relay team, which won the gold medal and equalled the world record of 37.40.
- Dmitri Markov
Dmitri Markov (born March 14, 1975 in Vitebsk, Byelorussian SSR) is a retired Australian pole vaulter. He is a former world champion and current Oceanian record holder. He originally competed for his birth country Belarus, but fell out with the Belarusian athletics association and refused to compete for the country at the 1998 European Championships. He moved to Australia and was granted citizenship in 1999. He soon set a new Oceanian record in pole vault with 5.95 metres, …
- Christine Arron
Christine Arron (born September 13, 1973 in Les Abymes, Guadeloupe) is a track and field sprint athlete, competing internationally for France. She arrived in Metropolitan France in 1990 and first trained with Fernand Urtebise, who also coached 1997 world 400m hurdles champion Stephane Diagana. She had a hip injury which kept her out of the 2001 World Championships. She was named 1998 European Women's Athlete of the Year, …
- Sandie Richards
Sandie Richards (born November 6, 1968 in Clarendon Park) is a Jamaican track and field athlete. She was a bronze medalist in the 4x400 m relay at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece. She was a world junior representative, finishing third in the 400 m at the 1986 Championships. The next year she won bronze at the World Student Games, followed by her Olympic debut a year later in Seoul, South Korea.
- Latasha Colander
LaTasha Colander is a track and field sprint athlete, competing internationally for United States. She is a 2004 Olympic Trials 100 m Champion; 2000 Olympic 4x400 m gold medalist; Two-time U.S. 400 m champion (’00, ’01); World Record Holder, 4x200 m relay; 1994 USA Juniors champion (100H); 2nd, 1994 World Junior Champs (100H). She graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She missed the 2001 World Championships due to a quadriceps injury.
- Charles Kamathi
Charles Kamathi (born 18 May 1978 in Nyeri) is a Kenyan long-distance runner. He is best known for winning the 10,000 metres distance at the 2001 World Championships in Edmonton.
- Dudley Dorival
Dudley Dorival (born 1 September 1975 in Elizabeth, United States) is a Haitian hurdler. Dorival attended and competed at the University of Connecticut. He is best known for his bronze medal in 110 metres hurdles at the 2001 World Championships, which he won in a personal best time of 13.25 seconds. Born in the United States to Haitian parents, Dorival took the Haitian nationality in July 1999. He also compete in 2003 World Championships in Athletics, …
- Mary Sauer
Mary Sauer (born 31 October 1975 in Green Bay, Wisconsin) is an American pole vaulter. She finished twelfth at the 2001 World Championships in Edmonton, seventh at the 2002 IAAF World Cup in Madrid and tenth at the 2003 World Championships in Paris. Her personal best jump is 4.65 metres, achieved in July 2002 in Madrid.
- Vonette Dixon
Vonette Dixon (born 26 November 1975) is a Jamaican hurdler. She finished eighth at the 2001 World Championships in Edmonton, won a silver medal at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester and finished ninth at the 2003 World Championships in Paris. Her personal best time is 12.67 seconds, achieved in June 2005 in Kingston.
- Dai Tamesue
Dai Tamesue is an Japanese athlete, competing mainly in 400 m hurdles but also 400 m. Tamesue won a bronze medal at the 2001 World Championships in Edmonton, setting a new personal best of 47.89 which still stands, and won another bronze medal at the 2002 Asian Games. He finished third again at the 2005 World Championships in Athletics with 48.10. In driving rain, he started fast to take the early lead before being overtaken on the final bend.
- Aki Parviainen
Aki Parviainen (born October 26, 1974 in Helsinki) is a Finnish Javelin thrower, who won the gold medal at the 1999 World Championships in Athletics and a silver medal at the 2001 World Championships. His best throw is 93.09 in 1999. His best Olympic placing is 5th in 2000. In spring of 2006, Parviainen announced his retirement due to injuries.
- Yoko Shibui
Yoko Shibui (born March 14, 1979 in Kuroiso) is a long-distance runner from Japan, who is competing in the 5000 and 10,000 metres as well as the marathon race. She made a winning debut on the marathon in 2001, when she triumphed at the Osaka Marathon in 2:23:11 hours. She finished fourth at the 2001 World Championships in Edmonton. At the next World Championships, the 2003 World Championships in Paris, she finished fourteenth in 10,000 metres.
- John Kibowen
John Kipkemboi Kibowen (born April 21, 1969 in Changach, southern Keiyo District) is a Kenyan long-distance runner who specializes in the 5000 metres and cross-country running. He won the gold medal in the short race at the 1998 and 2000 IAAF World Cross Country Championships, and finished second in 2003. He also won a bronze at the 2001 World Championships and a silver at the 2003 World Athletics Final, …
- Abi Oyepitan
Abiodun Oyepitan (born December 30, 1979) is a British sprint athlete. Abi was born in Westminster, London and represents Shaftsbury Barnet Harriers athletics club. Her first outing to a major athletics came at the 1998 World Junior Athletics Championships where she finished fourth as part of the British 4 x 100 m relay team. She continued to perform well at the junior level, but her progress was interrupted in 2000 by an injury.
- Adil Kaouch
Adil Kaouch (born January 1, 1979) is a Moroccan middle distance runner. In 1998 he won the World Junior Championships over 1500 metres. The next year won a 5000 metres gold medal at the 1999 Pan Arab Games. At the 1999 and 2001 World Championships, he took the role of setting a fast early pace to pull his teammate Hicham El Guerrouj away to victory. At the 2000 Sydney Olympic he failed to advance from his heat in the 1500m, …
- Sevatheda Fynes
Sevatheda Fynes (born October 17, 1974) is a Track and Field sprint athlete, competing internationally for Bahamas. She is an Olympic gold medalist in the 4 x 100 meter relay race. She graduated Physiology and Exercise Science at Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA. She missed the 2001 World Championships due to injury. She had a minor car accident prior to the 2000 Olympic trials, which limited her training.
- Nicoleta Grasu
Nicoleta Grasu is a Romanian discus thrower. She was born on September 11, 1971 in Secuieni as Nicoleta Grădinaru, but took a new surname when she married fellow discus thrower Costel Grasu. Nicoleta Grasu is best known for winning medals at the 1999 and 2001 World Championships. A few years followed without any international medals, but she did finish sixth at the 2004 Summer Olympics and fifth at the 2005 World Championships.
- Tesfaye Tola
Tesfaye Tola (born October 19, 1974) is a long-distance runner most known for winning a bronze medal in marathon at the 2000 Summer Olympics. The next year he finished fourth at the 2001 World Championships, and fourth in the World Half Marathon Championships. He was born in the Arsi Zone of the Oromia region of Ethiopia.
- André Bucher
André Bucher is a retired Swiss 800 metres runner who won the gold medal at the 2001 World Championships in Edmonton. He won the indoor bronze the same year. Bucher also won three European Championship silver medals in 1998, 2002 and 2002 Indoor. Other achievements include finishing third at the 2003 IAAF World Athletics Final. Bucher retired in May 2007 due to a long-term heel injury.
- Anier García
Anier García Ortiz is a Cuban athlete, winner of 110 m hurdles at the 2000 Summer Olympics. Born in Santiago de Cuba, Anier García established his credentials early, by winning the 1995 Pan American Junior Championships. In the next year, at the 1996 Summer Olympics, García was eliminated in the quarter-finals. In 1997, García broke to the international scene by winning 60 m hurdles at World Indoor Championships at Paris.
- Kip Janvrin
Kip Janvrin (born 8 July 1965 in Guthrie Center, Iowa) is a former American decathlete. Janvrin is a native of Panora, Iowa and is currently the Co-Head Track & Field Coach at the University of Central Missouri in Warrensburg, Missouri.
- Driss Maazouzi
Driss Maazouzi is a French 1500 metres runner who won a bronze medal at the 2001 World Championships in Edmonton. He won the 2003 IAAF World Indoor Championships. Maazouzi represented Morocco up to and during the 1996 Summer Olympics, but as a naturalised citizen of France he switched nationality shortly afterwards.
- Kumiko Ikeda
Kumiko Ikeda (born 10 January 1981) is a Japanese long jumper. She won bronze medals at the 2000 World Junior Championships and the 2001 Summer Universiade, and finished eleventh at the 2001 World Championships. On the regional level she won a bronze medal at the 2005 Asian Championships and gold at the 2006 Asian Games. Her personal best jump is 6.86 metres, achieved in May 2006 in Osaka. This is the current Japanese record.
- Josh Watson
Josh Watson (born July 31 1977 in Newcastle, New South Wales) is an Australian backstroke swimmer, who won a silver medal in the 4x100m medley relay at the 2000 Sydney Olympics. Training at the Kingscliff club near the Queensland border, and coached by Greg Salter, Watson became Australian champion in the 50m backstroke in 1996. However, as it was not an Olympic event, he did not gain national selection until 1997, …
- Magdelin Martinez
Magdelin Martinez is a track and field athlete, competing internationally for Italy. She was 7th in the Triple Jump at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece. She met future husband, Giuseppe Piccotti, while he was holidaying in the Caribbean. When he fell ill, she was quick to supply him with medicine, and it all went from there.
- Martin Buß
Martin Buß is a German high jumper who won the gold medal at the 2001 World Championships in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Born in Berlin, Buß took up the sport at the age of 17 and competed in his first World Championships in 1997, finishing ninth. At the 1999 World Championships in Seville, Spain he won a surprising bronze medal behind Vyacheslav Voronin and Mark Boswell. His jump of 2.32 metres was 5 cm behind the winner.
- Stefan Schmid
Stefan Schmid (born 6 July 1970) is a German decathlete. He finished fifth at the 1994 European Championships, seventh at the 1997 World Championships, ninth at the 2000 Olympic Games and seventh at the 2001 World Championships. His personal best result was 8485 points, achieved in July 2000 in Ratingen.
- Ahmed Douhou
Ahmed Douhou is a French sprinter who specializes in the 200 metres. He switched nationality from his birth country Côte d'Ivoire in 2002. He won the bronze medal in 4 x 400 metres relay at the 2002 European Championships, together with teammates Leslie Djhone, Naman Keita and Ibrahima Wade. On the individual level he reached the semifinals of the 1997 IAAF World Indoor Championships, and participated at the 2000 and 2004 Summer Olympics.
- Jaycey Harper
Jaycey Harper (born May 20, 1980) is a sprinter athlete from Trinidad and Tobago. A 100m specialist, Harper was a part of the Trinidad 4 x 100 m relay teams that won the bronze medal at the 2001 World Championships and the silver medal at the 2005 World Championships. Following the ruling of December 13, 2005 which retroactively disqualified Tim Montgomery and henceforth the American team from the 2001 Championships, the T&T team were promoted to silver medallists.
- Carolin Hingst
Carolin Hingst is a German pole vaulter. She finished tenth at the 2001 World Championships in Edmonton, fourth at the 2005 European Indoor Athletics Championships in Madrid and tenth at the 2005 World Championships in Helsinki. Her personal best is 4.66 metres, achieved in July 2004 in Karlsruhe. This ranks her third among German pole vaulters, only behind Annika Becker and Yvonne Buschbaum.
- Adam Kolasa
Adam Kolasa (born 2 August 1975) is a Polish pole vaulter. He finished eighth at the 2001 World Championships in Edmonton in a personal best of 5.75 metres, won the 2001 Jeux de la Francophonie, finished fourth at the 2002 European Indoor Championships in Vienna and ninth at the 2003 World Championships in Paris. Participating at the 2004 Olympics, he failed to qualify from his pool.
- Marius Bakken
Marius Bakken (born March 27, 1978 in Sandefjord) is a Norwegian runner who specializes in the 5000 metres, having ran distances from 800 to 10,000 metres in his early career. He represents IL Runar. He finished ninth at the 2001 World Championships, fourteenth at the 2002 European Championships and twelfth at the 2005 World Championships. In addition he competed at the 1999 World Championships and the Olympic Games in 2000 and 2004 without success.
- Zhang Wenxiu
Zhang Wenxiu (born 22 March 1986 in Liaoning) is a Chinese hammer thrower. She won the 2005 Asian Championships and 2006 Asian Games. She finished tenth at the 2001 World Championships in Edmonton, seventh at the 2004 Olympics in Athens, fifth at the 2005 World Championships in Helsinki and fourth at the 2006 IAAF World Cup in Athens. Her personal best throw is 73.24 metres, achieved in June 2005 in Changsha. This is the current world junior record.
- Masako Chiba
Masako Chiba (born 18 July 1976) is a Japanese long-distance runner, who won the bronze medal in 10,000 metres at the 1997 World Championships in Athens and in the marathon race at the 2003 World Championships in Paris.
- Driss el Himer
Driss El Himer (born April 4 1974, Kezazna, Morocco) is a French long-distance runner. He competed in the marathon at the 2004 Olympics, finishing 68th. He finished 6th in the long race at the 2001 IAAF World Cross Country Championships, 11th in the 5000m final at the 2001 World Championships in Edmonton, and 8th in the 10,000m final at the 2006 European Athletics Championships in Gothenburg.
- Antony Matkovich
Antony Matkovich (born June 12 1977) is an Australian freestyle swimmer, who won a silver medal in the 4x200m freestyle relay at the 2004 Athens Olympics. Coming from Perth, Western Australia, Matkovich became a scholarship holder at the Australian Institute of Sport in 2000. he had previously been a member of Australia's Water Polo team. He made his international debut in 2001 at the 2001 World Championships in Fukuoka, …
- Christophe Cheval
Christophe Cheval (born 25 February 1971 in Somain) is a French sprinter who specialized in the 200 metres. At the 1998 European Championships he finished sixth in his main event and won a silver medal in 4 x 100 metres relay with teammates Thierry Lubin, Frederic Krantz and Needy Guims. As the European champions Great Britain fielded their own World Cup team, the French relay team was selected to represent Europe at the 1998 IAAF World Cup, …