- 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. - Ezekiel Kemboi
Ezekiel Kemboi Cheboi (born May 25, 1982) is a Kenyan athlete, winner of 3000 m steeplechase at the 2004 Summer Olympics. Born in Matira, near Kapsowar, Marakwet District, Ezekiel Kemboi didn't take up athletics until after he left school and won the African Junior Championships in 2001 in spite of falling. In 2002, Kemboi finished second at the Commonwealth Games behind compatriot Stephen Cherono. - 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. - 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. - Tatiana Grigorieva
Tatiana Grigorieva (Russian: Татьяна Григорьева; born October 8, 1975 in Leningrad, Russia) As a former national level 400m hurdler in Russia, the 172 cm tall Tatiana Grigorieva took up Pole Vaulting when she migrated to Australia in 1997. Within 12 months of picking up a pole, she had become one of the world's best, placing 3rd in the 1998 Goodwill Games in New York. In her first appearance at the World Championships in 1999, … - Chantal Petitclerc
Chantal Petitclerc is a Canadian wheelchair athlete. She won three gold medals (in 100 m, 200 m, and 400 m) and a bronze (800 m) at the 2002 World Championships and a gold at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in the 800 m. At the 2004 Summer Olympics (where wheelchair racing was an exhibition sport) she won the 800 m, and went on to an impressive showing at the 2004 Summer Paralympics. - Phillips Idowu
Phillips Idowu (born on December 30, 1978 in Hackney, London) is an English triple jumper. He won the silver medal at the 2002 Commonwealth Games, setting a new personal best of 17.68 during the contest but was beaten by world record holder Jonathan Edwards. Later that year he placed 5th in the European Championships. Four years later, he once again finished 5th place at the 2006 European Championships in Athletics. - Nathan Deakes
Nathan Deakes (born August 17, 1977) is an Australian race walker. He won a bronze medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, and is a four-time Commonwealth Games gold medallist. He won gold in the 20km walk and 50km walk events at both the 2002 Manchester Games and the 2006 Melbourne Games, becoming the first man to win both the 20km and 50km walks at two consecutive Commonwealth Games. - Tamsyn Lewis
Tamsyn Carolyn Lewis (born July 20, 1978) is an Australian athlete and middle-distance runner. Lewis was raised in Melbourne, Victoria and attended Caulfield Grammar School. She made headlines recently when she came out saying that she had suffered from an eating disorder during her schooling years. Her mother Carolyn Wright was a junior high jump champion and her father an Olympic sprinter. She burst onto the national athletics scene in 1994, … - Christine Ohuruogu
Christine Ohuruogu (born May 17, 1984) is an English sprinter of Nigerian heritage who specialises in the 400 metres. Ohuruogu was also a netball player but quit in 2003 in order to concentrate on athletics. At the 2005 World Championships in Athletics she won a bronze medal in 4 x 400 metres relay together with Lee McConnell, Donna Fraser and Nicola Sanders. - 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, … - John Steffensen
John Steffensen (born August 30, 1982) is an Australian athlete, who specializes in 200 and 400 metres. His personal bests are 20.88 and 44.73. He competed in the 2004 Olympics, and was a part of the Australian team that won the silver medal in 4 x 400 metres relay. In the 2005 World Championships in Helsinki, he competed in 400 metres where he finished last in the final with 45.46. Steffensen won the gold medal in the 400 m at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, … - Rhys Williams
Rhys Williams (b. February 27, 1984, Cardiff) is a Welsh athlete, a 400 m hurdles sprinter. On August 10, 2006, Williams won the bronze medal at the European Championships in Athletics in Gothenburg in a time of 49.12 seconds, thus just slightly missing his personal best (49.09, set at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, where he finished fourth). He also ran 48.3 over the 400 m (2002). On Sunday 13, 2006, at that same event, … - Greg Yelavich
Gregory ("Greg") Thomas Yelavich (born March 8, 1957 in Otahuhu) is a competitive pistol shooter from Auckland, New Zealand. As well as winning numerous national pistol titles, Yelavich has the distinction of having won more Commonwealth Games medals than any other New Zealander (11). He was the New Zealand flag bearer at the closing ceremony of the 2006 Commonwealth Games. He has represented New Zealand at two Olympic Games - Seoul 1988 and Barcelona 1992. - Lisa Dobriskey
Lisa Dobriskey (born December 23, 1983 in Ashford, Kent) is an English middle distance athlete, coached by George Gandy and Stella Bandu, running for Ashford and Loughborough University. Lisa won Amateur Athletic Association titles at Under 15/17/20 and 23. She was the fastest British under-17 girl at 800 metres (2:08.67) and fourth fastest at 1500 m (4:31.7) in 1999, and the third fastest at 1500 m (4:28.10) in 2000. - Craig Mottram
Craig Mottram is an Australian long distance and middle distance runner. Born on 18 June 1980 in Frankston, Victoria, Mottram specialises in the 5000 metres event. He attended the prestigious Geelong Grammar School. It is there that he found his niche in running and was captain of the school team in his year. On August 14, 2005, Mottram reached a career highlight, coming third in the 5000 metres event at the 2005 World Championships in Athletics in Helsinki, … - 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, … - 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. - Benjamin Limo
Benjamin Kipkoech Limo (born August 23, 1974 in Chepkongony, Uasin Gishu) is a Kenyan middle distance runner. He runs every distance from 1500 m to 10,000 m, but mainly competes in 5,000 m, where he has won international medals. Limo did not train seriously until 1997, and ran his first 5,000 m the next year. His first international medals came in 1999, when he won the 1999 World Cross Country Championships and placed second in the 5,000 m at the World Championships, … - Aziz Zakari
Aziz Zakari (born September 2 1976 in Accra, Ghana) is a Ghanaian athlete specializing in the 100 metres. Participating in the 2004 Summer Olympics, he achieved second place in his 100 metres heat, thus making it through to the second round. Heading into the second round, he was victorious in a tough sprint, before achieving qualification from his semi-final. This good form was not able to continue, as he failed to finish in the final, staged on August 22, … - 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, … - Goldie Sayers
Goldie Sayers (born Katherine Sayers in 1982, Newmarket, UK) is a British javelin thrower. On 20th May, 2007, Sayers set a new UK record in the javelin (65.05), thus becoming the first British woman to throw over 65 metres since javelins were redesigned in 1999. Sayers set the record when competing for her university, Loughborough, at the Loughborough Internation match. - Michael Frater
Michael Frater (born October 6, 1982 in Manchester, Jamaica) is a Jamaican Sprinter. Frater was knocked out in the semi-finals of the 100m sprint at the 2004 Athens Olympics. A year later, in the 2005 World Championships, he won the silver medal in the 100 Metres with 10.05. He was disqualified in the semi-finals of the 100m sprint because of a false start at the 2006 Commonwealth Games. His personal best of 10.03 was set in Athens on June 14, 2005, … - Jason Tunks
Jason Tunks (born May 7, 1975 in London, Ontario, Canada) is an international level discus thrower representing Canada. World Ranking: 36th Quick Notes: * Jason is married to Netherlands shot putter Lieja Tunks * Holder of National Record at 67.88m * Graduated from Sir Frederick Banting Secondary School in London * Attended Southern Methodist University in Texas on a track scholarship * 6'6, 270lbs. - Achraf Tadili
Achraf Tadili (born July 8, 1980 in Casablanca, Morocco) is a Canadian athlete competing over 800 metres. - Valerie Vili
Valerie Vili, née Adams is a shot putter from New Zealand. In 2002 she became junior world champion and landed a silver medal at the Commonwealth Games. In 2004 she finished 8th at the Olympic Games. The next year she earned a place in the international elite, winning a surprise bronze medal at the World Championships with a personal best throw of 19.87m. In addition, she finished second at the World Athletics Final. - Alex Kipchirchir
Alex Kipchirchir Rono (born 26 November 1984 in Uasin Gishu) is a middle distance runner from Kenya. His real breakthrough year was 2006, by winning couple of titles. On 23 March 2006, he won the men's 800 metres event at the 2006 Commonwealth Games with a time of 1 minute, 45.88 seconds. In August 2006, he completed a 800 and 1500 metres double at the 2006 African Championships in Athletics in Bambous, Mauritius. - Mark Lewis-Francis
Mark Lewis-Francis (born September 4, 1982 in Darlaston) is an English sprint athlete, regarded as the top 100m sprinter in the United Kingdom. He is an Olympic gold medalist, having been part of the 4x100m relay team at the 2004 Summer Olympics. Lewis-Francis burst onto the scene at an early age, but missed the 2000 Summer Olympics, instead competing at the world junior championships, in which he won gold. - Uchenna Emedolu
Uchenna Emedolu (born September 17, 1976) is a Nigerian athlete specializing in short-distance sprints, particularly the 100 metres and the 200 metres. Participating in the 2004 Summer Olympics, he achieved a semi-final place in the 100 metres. In 100 metres his personal best time is 9.97 seconds, achieved at the 2003 All-Africa Games where he finished second. This ranks him fifth in Nigeria, behind Olusoji Fasuba, Davidson Ezinwa, Olapade Adeniken and Francis Obikwelu. - Natalie Saville
Natalie Saville (born July 9, 1978) is an Australian race walker. She finished second in the 20 km race at the 2006 Commonwealth Games. Her sister, Jane Saville, finished first in the event. Saville is coached by her brother-in-law, Matthew White. Saville finished 4th in the 20 km race at the 2002 Commonwealth Games and 36th in the same event at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. - Clinton Hill
Clinton Hill (born April 19, 1980) is an Australian athlete. Born in Johannesburg, South Africa, his family moved to Australia in 1997. He became an Australian citizen in June 2000 and was selected for the national 400 metres team. He competed in the 400 Metres at the 2004 Olympics, but was knocked out in the heats. However, Hill was a member of the Australian team that won the silver medal in the 4 x 400 metres relay. - Sherone Simpson
Sherone Simpson (born August 12, 1984) is a track and field sprint athlete, competing internationally for Jamaica. She is an Olympic gold medalist in the 4 x 100 meter relay race from 2004 Olympic Games. At the 2005 World Championships in Athletics she won (together with Daniele Browning, Aleen Bailey and Veronica Campbell) a gold medal. - Mark Boswell
Mark Boswell (born September 28, 1977 in Mandeville, Jamaica) is a Canadian high jumper. Boswell attended the University of Texas at Austin. In 2006, he won gold at the Commonwealth games held in Melbourne, Australia. His other notable achievements in international competition include 7th place at the 2004 Summer Olympics, 6th place at the 2000 Summer Olympics, a silver medal at the 1999 World Championships in Seville, … - Nick Willis
Nicholas Ian Willis is a New Zealand Athlete, in the 1500 metres, who was a gold medalist at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne. He was the first athlete from New Zealand to win the 1500 metres at the Commonwealth games (although Peter Snell won gold in Perth in at the Empire Games). His gold-medal winning run was completed in a time of 3:38.49 minutes. Willis was born on the 25 April 1983 in Lower Hutt, New Zealand, … - 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, … - Deji Aliu
Deji Aliu (born November 22, 1975) is a Nigerian sprinter. He has never won an individual medal, a fourth place at the 2002 Commonwealth Games being his best result. However, he helped win the relay bronze medal at the 2004 Olympics. Together with Innocent Asonze, Francis Obikwelu and Daniel Effiong he won a bronze medal in 4 x 100 metres relay at the 1999 World Championships in Athletics, … - Patrick Johnson
Patrick Johnson (born 26 September 1972, Cairns, Queensland) is an Australian athlete, who was born on a speed boat enroute to Cairns Base Hospital, the son of an Indigenous Australian mother and an Irish father, who trains at the Australian Institute of Sport. He ran a speed of 9.88's over 100m in 2003 at the Telstra A Series in Perth finishing first, to become Australia's fastest person. - Dorcus Inzikuru
Dorcus Inzikuru (born February 2, 1982 in Arua District) is a Ugandan athlete competing in steeplechase. Sometimes her name is rendered "Docus". It is mis-spelt in her passport, and because of that the mistake is perpetuated when she enters international races. Dorcus Inzikuru ended Uganda's 33-year wait for a gold medal when she won the inaugural women's 3,000 metres steeplechase at the 2005 World Championships in Helsinki. - Marc Burns
Marc Burns (born January 7 1983) is an athlete from Trinidad and Tobago specializing in the 100 metres and the 4x100 metres. Participating in the 2004 Summer Olympics, he was disqualified from his 100 metres heat, thus failing to make it through to the second round. Marc Burns placed second in the men's 100 metres dash at the Bislett Games IAAF Golden League meet in Oslo in July 2005, in preparation for the 2005 World Championships in Athletics. - Daniel Batman
Daniel Batman (born 20 March 1981) is an Australian sprinter. His greatest achievement has been a sixth place at the 2003 World Indoor Championships. He is known for being similarly competitive over 100, 200 and 400 metre sprint distances. He attended The Scots College. Daniel Batman is a direct descendant of John Batman, the founder of Melbourne.
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