- 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
- Tim Montgomery
Timothy Montgomery (born January 25, 1975) is a former American athlete and 100 m record holder. He was stripped of his records after being found guilty of using performance-enhancing drugs.
- Jerome Young
Jerome Young (born: August 14, 1976) in Clarendon, Jamaica, attended high school in Hartford, Connecticut at Prince Technical, is a sprint athlete. His reputation as a sprinter has been tarnished as he was caught doping in 1999 casting suspicious shadows over his entire track & field career. In 1995, as a senior in high school, Jerome set a Connecticut state record of 45.01 in the 400.
- Kelli White
Kelli White (born April 1 1977 in Oakland, California) is a former American sprinter. She won two gold medals in the World Championships in Paris in 2003. However, on 2004-06-18, she was stripped of her medals because she tested positive for modafinil on a drug test. She admitted guilt and testified before the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS). All her performances since December 15, 2000, have been annulled.
- Torri Edwards
Torri Edwards (born January 31, 1977) is an American sprinter. She was a rising young star in 100 and 200 metres, winning an Olympic medal in 4x100 metres relay in 2000. In 2003 she won six medals in major international competitions, including one World Championship gold. It later turned out that she had used the banned substance nikethamide. She was banned for two years effective from July 18, 2004, missing the 2004 Summer Olympics.
- C. J. Hunter
Cottrell J. Hunter, III (born December 14, 1968, in Washington, D.C.) is a former American shot putter and coach. He was the 1999 World Champion, but is perhaps best known for his involvement in the BALCO scandal and as the onetime spouse of superstar sprinter Marion Jones. His personal best was 71' 9", thrown during a 2nd place finish in the 2000 U.S. Olympic trials. The 6'1", 330 lb Hunter was a three-time All-American at Penn State University, …
- Carl Lewis
Frederick Carlton ("Carl") Lewis (born July 1, 1961) is a retired American track and field athlete who won 10 Olympic medals including 9 golds, and 10 World Championships medals, of which 8 were golds, in a career that spanned from 1979 when he first achieved a world ranking to 1996 when he last won an Olympic title and subsequently retired. He currently lives in Los Angeles and is pursuing an acting career.
- Alvin Harrison
Alvin Harrison (born January 20, 1974) is an American athlete. He won a gold medal in the 4 x 400 metres relay at both the 1996 and 2000 Summer Olympics and a silver medal in the 400 metres at the 2000 Summer Olympics. He is the twin brother of fellow Olympic medalist Calvin Harrison.
- Chryste Gaines
Chryste Dionne Gaines (born September 14, 1970) is an American athlete who competed mainly in the 100 metres. She competed for the United States in the 1996 Summer Olympics held in Atlanta, USA in the 4 x 100 metres where she won the gold medal with her team mates olympic 100m champion Gail Devers, Inger Miller and Gwen Torrence who won the 200m gold and a bronze in the 100m. She returned to Sydney for the 2000 Summer Olympics as the sole survivor of the 4 x 100 metre, …
- Linford Christie
Linford Christie, OBE (born April 2, 1960) is a former athlete, and the only English man to win Olympic, World, Commonwealth and European 100 m gold medals. He still holds the UK record. Christie's track career was ended when he received a two-year ban for taking a performance-enhancing substance, although he has continually denied any wrongdoing.
- Calvin Harrison
Calvin Harrison (born January 20, 1974) is an American athlete. He won a gold medal in the Men's 4 x 400 metres relay at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. He is the twin brother of fellow Olympic medalist Alvin Harrison. At the 2000 Olympics, Alvin Harrison and Calvin Harrison made history by becoming the first twins ever to compete and win Olympic gold medals together on the same relay team since the inception of the modern Olympic Games.
- Regina Jacobs
Regina Jacobs (born August 28, 1963) is a former middle distance runner from the United States. After graduating from Stanford University she represented the USA in three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1988 in Seoul, South Korea, before ending her career in disgrace after a positive drug test. Jacobs took second place in the 1500 m race at the 6th World Championships in Athletics in Athens (4:04.63) in 1997, …
- Sun Yingjie
Sun Yingjie (born January 19, 1979 in Liaoning) is a famous Chinese female long-distance runner who competes from 5000 metres to marathon. She is the only Chinese female runner who raced in a number of famous marathons such as Boston, New York, Tokyo and London. Her front-running style in the races is always impressive. From 1997 to 2000, she mainly focused on marathon.
- Dieter Baumann
Dieter Baumann (born February 9, 1965) is a former German athlete, winner of 5000 m at the 1992 Summer Olympics. Born in Blaustein, Germany (then West Germany), Dieter Baumann was one of the few non-African athletes who were able to seriously challenge the African dominance of middle-distance running during the 1990s. Baumann was equally adept at both the 1500 m and 5000 m distances. Although Baumann came second in the 3000 m at the European Indoor Championships in 1987, …
- Dennis Mitchell
Dennis Allen Mitchell (born February 20, 1966) is a former American athlete, winner of gold medal in 4x100 m relay at the 1992 Summer Olympics. Born in Havelock, North Carolina, Mitchell placed fourth in 100 m at the 1988 Summer Olympics and missed a probable gold medal in 4x100 m relay race, because the American team was disqualified in the heats, after the pass between Calvin Smith and Lee McNeill was made out of the zone.
- 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.
- Kevin Toth
Kevin Toth (born 29 December 1967 in Cleveland, Ohio) is a former American shot put athlete. His personal best throw is 22.67 meters, which places him 7th on the all-time performers list (see
- Butch Reynolds
Harry ("Butch") Reynolds (born June 8 1964 in Columbus, Ohio) is a former 400 meters sprinter, representing the United States. On August 17 1988 he set a 400 meters world record with 43.29 seconds, smashing Lee Evans' 20 year old world record by an amazing 0.57 seconds. The record was finally broken by Michael Johnson (43.18) in 1999. He won a silver medal in the 1988 Summer Olympics on the 400 meters and a gold medal on the 4 x 400 m relay.
- Ekaterini Thanou
Ekaterini Thanou ; born February 1, 1975) is a Greek sprinter. Thanou won the silver medal in the women's 100 m at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney. In 2002 she won the gold medal at the European Championships in Munich.
- Mary Decker
Mary Slaney (born Mary Teresa Decker August 4, 1958) is an American former track and field athlete, who holds seven American records in her sport. In 1981 she married marathon runner Ron Tabb. The couple divorced two years later and on January 1, 1985 Decker married discus thrower Richard Slaney.
- Sandra Glover
Sandra Glover (born December 30, 1968 in Palestine, Texas) is an African American athlete competing in the 400 metres hurdles.
- Chris Phillips
Christopher Phillips (born 24 July 1972) is a retired American athlete who specialized in the 110 metres hurdles. At the 2003 World Championships he first achieved a lifetime best of 13.26 seconds in the first round. He eventually reached the final, but was disqualified for modafinil doping. A month later, he finished fifth at the World Athletics Final.
- Irina Korzhanenko
Irina Korzhanenko (born May 16, 1974 in Azov) is a former Russian shot putter. She gained international recognition when she won a bronze medal at the 1997 IAAF World Indoor Championships. In the following years she became European Indoor champion, European champion and World Indoor champion. At the 2004 Summer Olympics she originally won the gold medal in shot put, but tested positive for stanozolol and was stripped of the title.
- Javier Sotomayor
Javier Sotomayor (born October 13, 1967 in Matanzas, Cuba) is a Cuban former athlete who specialized in the high jump. He is 1.94 meters tall. Sotomayor set an age 16 world record in 1984 of 2.33 metres in Havana, but was not able to go to the 1984 Olympics due to the Cuban boycott. In 1985 he took silver in the World Indoor Championships with a best jump of 2.30 metres, and won his first title in 1987, at the Pan American Games.
- Seema Antil
Seema Antil (born July 27, 1983) is an Indian discus thrower. Antil originally won the gold medal at the 2000 World Junior Championships, but lost it due to a positive drugs test for pseudoephedrine.As per the rules in force at that time for such an offence, her National Federation issued her a public warning after stripping her of the medal. She won a bronze medal at the next World Junior Championships in 2002. She won the silver medal at the 2006 Commonwealth Games, …
- Randy Barnes
Eric Randolph "Randy" Barnes (born June 16, 1966) is an American shot putter who holds outdoor and indoor distance records. He won silver at the 1988 Olympics and gold at the 1996 Olympics. Barnes was born in Charleston, West Virginia and began throwing the shot put in high school. In 1985, he threw an impressive 66 ' 9.5" (20.36 m) with the prep shot of 12 lb (5.44 kg). After graduating from St. Albans High School near Charleston in 1985, …
- Neelam Jaswant Singh
Neelam Jaswant Singh (born 8 January 1971 in Farmana) is an Indian discus thrower. Her personal best throw is 64.55 metres, achieved at the 2002 Asian Games in Busan. During the 2005 World Championships she tested positive for the banned stimulant pemoline in an in-competition test.
- 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.
- John McEwen
John McEwen (born 5 March 1974) is a retired American hammer thrower. He finished sixth at the 2002 IAAF World Cup. At the 2003 American championships he tested positive for the banned substance tetrahydrogestrinone, and was disqualified from his second place. His personal best throw was 74.73 metres, achieved in April 2003 in Walnut.
- Konstantinos Kenteris
Konstantinos Kenteris, also spelt as Konstadinos Kederis is a Greek athlete. (In modern Greek, "ντ" is pronounced like the English "d".) Born in Mytilene, Kenteris, a student of physical education, started practising athletics at age 10, and started running seriously about ten years later, when he moved to Thessaloniki. Kenteris specialised in the 200 m and 400 m races.
- Grit Breuer
Grit Breuer (born February 16, 1972 in Robel, Germany) is a former East German athlete, who competed in the women's 200m, 400m, 4x100m, and 4x100m events. She has received injuries as a result of her sports competition, including a slipped disk in her back and a ligament in her knee. She has also been involved in drugs-related controversy. In 1992 she received a two year ban from the sport after admitting she had taken clenbuterol.
- 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.
- John Capel
John Capel (born November 27, 1978 in Brooksville, Florida, United States of America) is a sprint athlete. John attended the University of Florida in Gainesville and played for their american football team the Gators but left there in 2000 to concentrate on his athletics career. John's major athletic highlight came in winning the 200 m gold medal at the 2003 World Championships in Athletics, at the Stade de France in Saint Denis, Paris, France.
- Antonella Bevilacqua
Antonella Bevilacqua (born 15 October 1971) is an Italian high jumper. Her personal best jump was 1.98 metres, achieved in May 1996 in Milan. In 1996 Bevilacqua tested positive for the prohibited substances ephedrine and pseudoephedrine twice during the same month.
- 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.
- Katrin Krabbe
Katrin Krabbe (born 22 November 1969 in Neubrandenburg, Germany) is a female athlete who competed for East Germany (before 1990) and Germany thereafter. She represented the DDR at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. She was a successful track star, winning the 100 m and 200 m titles in the 1990 European Championships in Athletics (held in Split) and the same titles at the 1991 World Championships in Athletics (held in Tokyo, …
- Ludmila Engquist
Ludmila Engquist (born April 21, 1964 in Tambov Oblast, Russia) is a Swedish athlete who won gold medals in 100m hurdles at the 1991 World Championships (for the Soviet Union under the name Ludmila Narozhilenko) and 1997 World Championships as well as the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. For her 1997 victory in Athens, Engquist received the Svenska Dagbladet Gold Medal, the first non-native Swede to win the honor.
- Damu Cherry
Damu Cherry (born 29 November 1977) is an American hurdler. She finished seventh at the 2006 World Indoor Championships and second at the 2006 World Athletics Final. Her personal best time is 12.44 seconds, achieved in July 2006 in Lausanne. In 2003 she tested positive for a banned substance in an IAAF out-of-competition test. She was suspended from August 2003 to August 2005.
- Anastasiya Kapachinskaya
Anastasiya Kapachinskaya (born: November 20, 1979 in Moscow, Russia) is a sprint athlete. At the IAAF World Indoor Championships in 2004 she won the 200 m, but was stripped of the title after testing positive for the banned anabolic steroid stanozolol. She denied all knowledge of how it had happened and during the two year ban that she has received has vowed to work with the World Anti-Doping Agency promoting sports without drugs, …
- Mark McKoy
Marcus ("Mark") McKoy (born December 10, 1961) is a former Canadian athlete, winner of 110 metres hurdles at the 1992 Summer Olympics. Although born in Georgetown, Guyana, Mark McKoy spent his youth in England, before moving to Canada as a teenager. McKoy came to the international athletics scene in 1982 by winning a gold in 110 m hurdles and silver in 4 x 100 m relay at Commonwealth Games.