- Marion Jones
Marion Jones (born October 12, 1975 in Los Angeles, California) is an American athlete of half Belizean and half African American descent. She is the winner of five medals at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. She holds dual citizenship from the USA and Belize (her mother's home country).
- Maurice Greene
Maurice Greene (born July 23, 1974) is an American sprinter in athletics, who holds several world records and Olympic medals. He was the former world record holder for the 100m, with a time of 9.79 seconds, a record which was broken in 2005 by Asafa Powell.
- Deena Kastor
Competing in her third Olympics in the marathon (Aug. 17), Deena is the top female distance runner in the United States. She took home the bronze medal in the women's marathon in Athens in 2004. The Agoura, CA, native now resides in Mammoth Lakes, CA. Deena Kastor was forced to withdraw during the women's marathon due to injury.
- Justin Gatlin
Justin Gatlin (born February 10, 1982) is an American sprinter. He is an Olympic gold medalist who shares the world record in the 100 m sprint (with Asafa Powell), with a time of 9.77 seconds. He is currently serving an eight-year ban from track and field for testing positive for doping
- Kelly Holmes
Dame Kelly Holmes, DBE (born April 19, 1970) is a retired British middle distance athlete. She won gold medals in the 800 metres and the 1500 metres at the 2004 Summer Olympics.
- 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, …
- 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.
- Terrence Trammell
Terrence R. Trammell (born November 23, 1978 to Julie and Roger Trammell in Atlanta, Georgia, USA) is a hurdling athlete, who won the silver medal in the 110 meter hurdles at both the 2000 and 2004 Summer Olympics. The 1997 Track & Field News Male High School Athlete of the Year attended the University of South Carolina were he trained under Curtis Frye. His main training partner until 2002 was Olympic gold medalist Allen Johnson.
- Sanya Richards
Sanya Richards (born February 26, 1985 in Kingston, Jamaica) is a track and field athlete who competes internationally for the United States. She was a gold medalist in the 4x400m relay at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece. Richards left Jamaica for the USA at the age of 12 and became a US citizen in May 2002. At St. Thomas Aquinas High School in Fort Lauderdale, she lettered in basketball in high school and is a member of the National Honor Society, …
- Michael Blackwood
He has never won any major tournament, although he did come close in the 2003 World Championships in Paris Saint-Denis where he finished fourth. In the 400 Metres competition at the 2004 Olympic Games he finished eighth with 45.55. In the Helsinki 2005, he only reached the semi finals, finishing third in his heat. Blackwood has, however, been part of many successful 4 x 400 relay teams. He won the bronze medal at the 2000 Olympics, …
- Kim Gevaert
Kim Gevaert (born August 5, 1978 in Leuven) is a Belgian sprint athlete. Her closest brush with a world title came in running 4/100th's of a second behind 3 times champion Gail Devers at the 2004 IAAF World Indoor Championships in Athletics. At the next World Indoor Championships, in 2006, she won the bronze medal in a national record time of 7.11 seconds. On August 9, 2006 she won the 100 metres at the European Championships in 11.06 seconds.
- Jason Gardener
Jason Gardener (born September 18, 1975 in Bath, Somerset, England) is a British sprint athlete. Gardener was educated at Beechen Cliff School, Bath, where he now has a tutor group named after him.
- Asafa Powell
Asafa Powell (born 23 November 1982) is a Jamaican sprinter, and is currently the 100m co-world record holder with Justin Gatlin, with a time of 9.77 seconds.
- Tatyana Lebedeva
Tatyana Lebedeva (born July 21, 1976 in Volgograd) is a Russian athlete who competes on the world stage in both the long jump and triple jump disciplines. In the finals of the 2004 World Indoor Championships, after equalling Ashia Hansen's triple jump indoor world record with her first jump, Tatyana then improved on this twice finishing with a mark of 15.36 metres. In 2004 for the second Summer Olympic Games in a row, …
- Kenenisa Bekele
Kenenisa Bekele (born June 13, 1982, Ethiopia) is an Ethiopian distance runner. He won the gold medal in the 10,000 m and the silver in the 5,000 m at the 2004 Athens Olympics. He won the Gold in the 10,000 m at the 2003 World Championships in Athletics at Paris completing an Ethiopian sweep with Haile Gebrselassie(2nd) and Sileshi Sihine(3rd), and also won 10,000 m at the 2005 World Championships in Athletics (with Sileshi Sihine(2nd)).
- Alan Culpepper
Alan Culpepper (born 15 September, 1972) is an American distance runner. His accomplishments include finishing fourth in the Boston Marathon in 2005, winning the 2004 U.S. Olympic Trials Marathon and finishing 12th at the 2004 Olympic Marathon in Athens. His 2:09:41 at the 2002 Chicago Marathon tied him with Alberto Salazar for the fastest ever debut marathon by an American, and remains his fastest marathon.
- Allen Johnson
Allen K. Johnson (born March 1, 1971) is a hurdling athlete and won Olympic Gold in the 110 metre high hurdles at the 1996 games in Atlanta, Georgia. Born in Washington, D.C., an all-round athlete Johnson attended University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and excelled at high jump, long jump and decathlon as well as hurdles. Johnson was troubled by injury in 2000 and it was much to his credit that he made the final at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, …
- Amy Acuff
Amy Lyn Acuff is an athlete from the United States. An aggressive high jump competitor, Acuff competed in the 2004 Summer Olympics as a member of USA Track and Field and is a three-time Olympian. Her personal best is 2.01 m, which she achieved in Zürich on 2003-08-15. Acuff lives in Austin, Texas, and is an alumna of UCLA. Acuff is distantly related to country musician Roy Acuff (her grandfather’s second cousin).
- Liu Xiang
Liu Xiang (born July 13, 1983) is a Chinese hurdling athlete and Olympic gold medalist and world record holder in the 110 metres hurdles at 12.88 seconds. Born in Shanghai, China, his given name, 翔, means "to soar".
- Ivan Heshko
Ivan Heshko is a Ukrainian athlete specializing in the 1500 meters. He was born on August 19, 1979 in Chernivtsi Oblast, Northern Bukovina. Heshko started to train at the age of 14. He achieved his studies at the Teacher's Training College: Kamenets-Podolskiy. A member of an Italian athletic club, he has been trained by Georgiy Mironiouk since 1992, and has five times been the champion of his country, …
- Tim Lobinger
Tim Lobinger (born September 3, 1972 in Rheinbach, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a German track and field athlete. His discipline is pole vault and he has been an elite competitor since the 1990s. His best results came in 1997 and 1999 when he jumped over 6.00 meters. His best medals so far have been silver at the 1998 European Athletics Championships and the 2006 European Athletics Championships.
- Jeremy Wariner
Jeremy Wariner (born January 31, 1984 in Irving, Texas) is an American track athlete. He is a graduate of Lamar High School in Arlington, Texas. Height: 1.83m (approx. 6') He won the gold medal in 400 meters the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, heading an American clean sweep. The USA also won the gold medal in the 4x400m with Jeremy Wariner running the third leg. He is known for wearing sunglasses for all of his races, regardless if it is sunny or not.
- Meseret Defar
Meseret Defar (born November 19, 1983 in Addis Ababa) is a female athlete from Ethiopia. She won gold in the women's 5000 metres at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens with a time of 14:45.65. She won a silver medal at the 2005 World Championships in Athletics in Helsinki, losing only to Tirunesh Dibaba. In 2006 she won the World Indoor Championships over 3000 metres, defending her title from the 2004 IAAF World Indoor Championships.
- Rashid Ramzi
Rashid Ramzi is an athlete competing internationally for Bahrain in the 800 and 1500 metres. In the past he has competed for Morocco where he came from. In 2005, Rashid Ramzi became the first athlete in history to win gold medals in the 800 m and 1500 m in the same World Championship, and the first to perform this feat in a global championship (World Championship or Olympic Games) since Peter Snell did so in 1964.
- Monique Henderson
Monique Henderson (born February 18, 1983 in San Diego, California) is a track and field athlete, competing internationally for the United States. She was a gold medalist in the 4x400m relay at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece. At age 17, she set a US junior and high school record of 50.74s. In 2000, she became the first high school athlete to make the US Olympic team since 1976. She was a member of the 4x400m squad but did not run.
- Novlene Williams
Novlene Williams (born April 26, 1982 in Saint Ann, Jamaica) is a track and field athlete, competing internationally for the Jamaica. She was a bronze medalist in the 4x400m relay at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece. At the 2005 World Championships in Athletics she won (together with Shericka Williams, Ronetta Smith and Lorraine Fenton) a silver medal. At the 2006 Commonwealth Games she won a bronze medal over 400 metres.
- Simon Vroemen
Simon Frans Vroemen (born May 11 1969 in Delft, Zuid-Holland) is a former Dutch runner, specialising in the steeplechase. Vroemen has a degree in molecular sciences from the Wageningen University. He wrote his dissertation on the stress physiology of grasshoppers. He has since worked as an engineer for Shell and currently resides at Gieten. Originally a 1500 metre runner, he changed his focus in 1994 to the steeplechase, in which he has been internationally successful.
- Yelena Slesarenko
Yelena Vladimirovna Slesarenko, née Sivushenko is a Russian high jumper. Largely unknown before 2004, she kickstarted the season by clearing 2.04 metres and winning the World Indoor Championships. When the outdoor season started she won the SPAR European Cup with the same result, improving her personal best from 1.97 (achieved in 2002). She continued her good form at the 2004 Summer Olympics, …
- Naman Keita
Naman Keita (born April 9, 1978 in Paris, France) is a track and field athlete, competing internationally for France. He was a bronze medalist in the 400 metres hurdles at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece. He finished 4th in the 400m hurdles final at the 2006 European Athletics Championships. He started running while in primary school. He worked for six months as a postman before stopping to focus his energies on the World Championships and Olympic Games.
- 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, …
- Darold Williamson
Darold Williamson (born February 19, 1983 in San Antonio, Texas) is an American track athlete. He ran the anchor leg on the gold medal winning 4x400 meter relay team at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. He is 2005 graduate of Baylor University in Waco, Texas, where he won the Big 12 Conference championship in the 400 meter run three years in a row (2001-2003).
- Michelle Perry
Michelle Monica Marilyn Perry (born 1 May 1979 in Granada Hills, California) is an American athlete. At the 2004 Summer Olympics she placed 14th overall in the heptathlon competition. Later, at the 2005 World Championships in Athletics, she was awarded a gold medal in the 100 m hurdles with a time of 12.66 seconds. Her current personal record in the event is 12.43 seconds.
- Veronica Campbell
Veronica Campbell (born May 15, 1982) is a Track and Field sprint athlete, competing internationally for Jamaica and the current Olympic 200m champion. She is a four-time Olympic medalist. Campbell attends the University of Arkansas where she stood out as a sprint star in a program dominated by long-distance runners. In 2000, she was a member of the 4 x 100 meter relay team the won silver at the 2000 Summer Olympics for Jamaica.
- Muna Lee
Muna Lee (born October 30, 1981) is an American sprinter. She competed in 200 metres at the 2004 Summer Olympics, she made it to the final and tied for last. She won a gold medal in 4 x 100 metres relay at the 2005 World Championships in Athletics.
- Olusoji Fasuba
Olusoji Adetokunbo Fasuba (born July 9, 1984) is a Nigerian sprinter who specializes in the 100 metres. He was a member of the Nigerian bronze medal winning team in the 4 x 100 metres relay at the 2004 Olympic Games. The same year he won the African Championships on 100 metres. In early 2006 he finished fifth at the World Indoor Championships and second at the Commonwealth Games. He then established a new African record with 9.85 seconds from the Doha Grand Prix in May, …
- Gabriela Szabó
Gabriela Szabó is a Romanian track and field athlete, winner of the gold medal in the 2000 Summer Olympics in 5000 m and winner of bronze and silver medals in 1996 Summer Olympics and 2000 Summer Olympics in 1500 m, respectively. In 2003 illegal drugs were found in the boot of her car. She later retired from Athletics complaining about a health problem even though her performance in Athletics decreased since the drugs were found. Szabó is also a three-time world champion.
- Marlon Devonish
Marlon Devonish (born June 1, 1976 in Coventry, England) is an English sprint athlete. He is a member of the Coventry Godiva Harriers athletics club and is coached by Tony Lester. Early in his career he was successful at both 100 and 200 metre distances, winning English Schools and European Junior titles at both, but in recent years he has concentrated mostly on the longer distance. He has also been a regular member of both the British and, at the Commonwealth Games, …
- Paula Radcliffe
Paula Jane Radcliffe, MBE (born December 17, 1973) is a British long-distance runner. She is the current world record holder for the women's marathon, which she set during the 2003 London Marathon, with a time of 2:15.25. This mark is currently the highest scoring performance ever, in terms of IAAF world ranking points, at 1307, higher in value than Florence Griffith-Joyner's 100 and 200m records, Marita Koch's 400m, and Michael Johnson's 400m record.
- 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, …
- Stefan Holm
Stefan Christian Holm (born May 25, 1976) is a Swedish athlete competing in the high jump. He has won 1 Olympic gold medal, 3 gold and 1 silver medal in the World Championships, 1 gold, 2 silver and 1 bronze medals in the European Championships. His personal record in high jump is 2.40 m (indoors 2005) and 2.36 m (outdoors 2004).