- Stefano Baldini
Stefano Baldini (born May 25, 1971 in Castelnovo di Sotto, Emilia-Romagna, Italy) is an Italian athlete. His main event is the marathon, for which he won a gold medal in August 29, 2004 at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, and two bronze medals in 2001 and 2003, at the 2001 World Championships in Athletics celebrated in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada and 2003 World Championships in Athletics at Saint-Denis, France.
- Jack Agrios
Jack N. Agrios is a Canadian lawyer. Born in Edmonton, Alberta, he received a Bachelor of Arts in 1959 and a Bachelor of Laws in 1960 from the University of Alberta. He was called to the Alberta Bar in 1961 and was appointed Queen's Counsel in 1978. He has been a director and executive member of the Edmonton Eskimos. He chaired the organizing committee of the 2001 World Championships in Athletics, the first time the event had visited North America.
- Gezahegne Abera
Gezahegne Abera (born April 23, 1978) is an Ethiopian athlete, winner of the marathon race at the 2000 Summer Olympics. Born in Etya, Arsi Province, Abera's first international competition was the 1999 Los Angeles marathon, where he finished fourth, behind of three Kenyans. That earned him a place in the Ethiopian 1999 World Championships team, where he finished eleventh.
- 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.
- Robert Korzeniowski
Robert Korzeniowski is a former Polish racewalker. He has won four gold medals at the Summer Olympics and has won three world championships. Korzeniowski is a three-peat winner of the 50 km walk at the Summer Olympics. He won 1996 in Atlanta, 2000 in Sydney, and 2004 in Athens. In addition, he became the first athlete to claim both the long distance and the short distance crown, when he won the 20 km title at the 2000 games. He won world championship titles in 1997, 2001, …
- Richard Limo
Richard Kipkemei Limo (born November 18, 1980) is a Kenyan athlete. He specializes in long distance track events. He won the 5000 metres gold medal at the 2001 World Championships in Athletics. He was born in 1980 in Cheptigit village, Uasin Gishu District. After primary school he went to polytechnic and received a grade in electrical wiring in 1996. He did not start running until 1997 when he joined a training camp located near his home.
- 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, …
- Reuben Kosgei
Reuben Seroney Kosgei (born August 2, 1979 in Marakwet, Kenya) is a middle and long distance athlete mostly famous for 3000 m steeplechase in which he became the youngest ever winner of an Olympic gold medal in the event when at the age of only 19 he ran to victory in Sydney 2000 even though his winning time of 8 minutes 21.43 seconds was the slowest winning time since the 1972 Summer Olympics.
- Corne du Plessis
Corne Du Plessis (born March 20, 1978) is a South African sprinter. Together with Morne Nagel, Lee-Roy Newton and Matthew Quinn he won a silver medal in 4 x 100 metres relay at the 2001 World Championships in Athletics. Following the ruling of December 13, 2005 which retroactively disqualified Tim Montgomery and henceforth the American team, the South African team were promoted to gold medallists.
- Morne Nagel
Morne Nagel (born March 23, 1978) is a South African sprinter. Together with Corne Du Plessis, Lee-Roy Newton and Matthew Quinn he won a silver medal in 4 x 100 metres relay at the 2001 World Championships in Athletics. Following the ruling of December 13, 2005 which retroactively disqualified Tim Montgomery and henceforth the American team, the South African team were promoted to gold medallists.
- Lee Roy Newton
Lee Roy Newton (born December 19, 1978) is a South African sprinter. Together with Morne Nagel, Corne Du Plessis and Matthew Quinn he won a silver medal in 4 x 100 metres relay at the 2001 World Championships in Athletics. Following the ruling of December 13, 2005 which retroactively disqualified Tim Montgomery and henceforth the American team, the South African team were promoted to gold medallists.
- 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.
- Millon Wolde
Millon Wolde (born March 17, 1979) is an Ethiopian athlete, winner of 5000 m at the 2000 Summer Olympics. At the age of only seventeen, Millon Wolde competed in the 1996 World Junior Championships in Sydney, finishing sixth in the 3000 m steeplechase. At the next World Junior Championships, at Annecy, France in 1998, he won the 5000 m. He also finished eighth in the Junior World Cross-Country Championships at Cape Town in 1996, …
- Natalya Sadova
Natalya Sadova, née Koptyukh is a Russian discus thrower. She won the gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics held in Athens, Greece in 2004, as well as a silver medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. She originally won the gold medal at the 2001 World Championships in Athletics, but lost it due to a positive drugs test for caffeine. She was later cleared and let off a suspension, …
- Simon Biwott
Simon Biwott (born March 3, 1970 in Eldoret, Uasin Gishu District) is a former long-distance runner from Kenya, who won the silver medal in the men's marathon at the 2001 World Championships in Athletics. The race in Edmonton, Canada was won by Ethiopia's reigning Olympic champion Gezahegne Abera. A year later Biwott won the Rotterdam Marathon. Biwott started racing relatively late, at the age of 27, and retired from international competition early 2005, …
- Koji Murofushi
Koji Alexander Murofushi (Jpn. 室伏 アレクサンダー 広治 "Murofushi Arekusandā Kōji"; born October 8, 1974 in Numazu, Shizuoka) is a Japanese hammer thrower. He has been among the world elite since the 2001 World Championships in Athletics, where he won the silver medal. He proceeded by winning the 2002 Asian Championships and Asian Games as well as a bronze medal at the 2003 World Championships.
- Lidia Simon
Lidia Slavuteanu Simon (born September 4, 1973 in Targu Carbunesti) is a Romanian long-distance runner. Competing in marathon, she won bronze medals at the World Championships in 1997 and 1999, before finally winning in Edmonton 2001. She won the Osaka Marathon in 1998, 1999 and 2000 and a bronze medal over 10000 metres at the 1998 European Championships. At the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney she won the silver medal behind Naoko Takahashi, …
- 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, …
- Olga Yegorova
Olga Yegorova (born March 28, 1972 in Novocheboksarsk) is a Russian middle distance runner. At the 2000 Summer Olympics she competed in 5000 metres, and she is a double world champion in this event, but like countryfellow Tatyana Tomashova she has concentrated on shorter races since, now competing mainly in the 1500 metres. In this event she finished 11th at the 2004 Summer Olympics and second at the 2005 World Championships.
- Inger Miller
Inger Miller (born June 12, 1972 in Los Angeles, California) is a track and field sprint athlete, competing internationally for United States. She is the daughter of Lennox Miller, an Olympic champion runner. Miller was a Tournamet of Roses Princess in the 1990 court.
- 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.
- Nick Hysong
Nick Hysong (born December 9, 1971 in Winslow, Arizona) is an American athlete competing in the pole vault. Best known for winning the Olympic gold medal in 2000 with a personal best jump of 5.90 metres, he also won a bronze medal at the 2001 World Championships in Athletics. Has excellent speed. He has run 10.27 for 100 meters. In his final year at Arizona State University in 1994, he won both the Pac 10 and the NCAA 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Szymon Ziółkowski
Szymon Ziółkowski is a Polish hammer thrower and an Olympic gold medal winner from Sydney 2000. He also won the gold medal at the World Championships in Edmonton 2001 and the bronze in Helsinki 2005.
- 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.
- 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, …
- 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, …
- 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, …
- Brandon Simpson
Brandon Simpson (born September 6, 1981 in Florida, USA) is a sprinter who represents Bahrain, having previously represented Jamaica. He has won a bronze medal in 4 x 400 metres relay at three world championships; 2001, 2003 and 2005. He finished 6th in the individual 400 metres contest in 2005, and 5th at the 2004 Olympics.
- 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.
- Joachim B. Olsen
Joachim B. Olsen (born May 31, 1977 in Aalborg, Denmark) is one of the world's leading shot putters. With ten straight international finals, Joachim holds the longest string of appearances in finals at Olympic, World and European Championships among throwers. Joachim is coached by the former olympic finalist Vesteinn Hafsteinsson (Iceland), who started working with Joachim in October 2003. In his teens Joachim primarily focused on the discus throw, …
- Olimpiada Ivanova
Olimpiada Ivanova is a Russian track and field athlete who competes in race walking. She has 4 medals from the major events. Her first gold medal was won in the 2001 Edmonton World Championships, where she beat the rest of the world with the time 1.27:48. A year later, in 2002, she won another gold medal at the 2002 European Championship in Munich. The next major sporting event she took part in was the 2004 Athens Olympics where she finished second.
- Wilfred Bungei
Wilfred Bungei (born July 24, 1980) is a Kenyan middle distance runner, who won the gold medal at the World Indoor Championships in Athletics in Moscow 2006 over 800 metres. He defeated Mbulaeni Mulaudzi and Olympic Champion Yuriy Borzakovskiy in the course of the race. Bungei was ranked No.1 in the world over 800m in 2002 and 2003. He has a personal best of 1:42.34 minutes (Rieti 2002), thus being currently the fifth fastest runner in the history of the event.
- 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.
- Latasha Jenkins
LaTasha Jenkins (born December 19, 1977) is a former American sprinter. Having won international medals on the 200 metres only, she won a silver medal at the 2001 World Indoor Championships and a bronze medal at the 2001 Outdoor Championships. She does in fact hold a world record, as a member of the American 4x200 m Relay team who ran 1:27.46 on April 29, 2000 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the other team members being LaTasha Colander-Richardson, …
- 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.