- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Olga Shishigina
Olga Shishigina (born December 23, 1968 in Almaty) is a retired Kazakhstani athlete who mainly competed in the 100 metres hurdles. She won an Olympic gold medal in 2000, and many on regional and continental level. She was banned between 1996 and 1998 for failing a drug test.
- 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, …
- 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.
- 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.
- Larry Myricks
Larry Myricks (born 10 March 1956) was an American athlete who competed mainly in the long jump. He competed for the United States in the 1988 Summer Olympics held in Seoul, South Korea in the long jump where he won the bronze medal. Personal best of 8.74m in the long jump and was also a useful 200m sprinter with a best of 20.03 at the us national championships in 1983 behind his nemesis Carl Lewis who overshadowed him for most of his career.
- Lars Arvid Nilsen
Lars Arvid Nilsen is a retired Norwegian shot putter. He represented Urædd Friidrett. He finished fifth at the 1986 European Championships, fifth at the 1987 World Indoor Championships, tenth at the 1990 European Indoor Championships, sixth at the 1990 European Championships and fifth at the 1991 World Indoor Championships. He became Norwegian champion in 1989 and 1991. Later in 1991 he won the bronze medal at the World Championships in Tokyo with a throw of 20.75 metres, …
- 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, …
- Georg Andersen
Georg Andersen is a Norwegian shot putter. He represented IK Grane, IK Tjalve and Urædd Friidrett. Early in his international career he finished twelfth at the 1985 European Indoor Championships, tenth at the 1986 European Championships, sixth at the 1988 European Indoor Championships and tenth at the 1988 Summer Olympics. He then got his international breakthrough as he won bronze medals at the 1988 IAAF Grand Prix Final, 1989 World Indoor Championships, …
- 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, …
- 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.
- Róbert Fazekas
Róbert Fazekas is a Hungarian discus thrower, who won gold in the 2002 European Championships and silver in the 2003 World Championship. He finished first in the 2004 Summer Olympics, but was later disqualified for failing to provide a drug sample, and the gold medal was awarded to Virgilijus Alekna. Fazekas ranks fifth in all-time longest discus throw distances with a personal best of 71.70m.
- Dwain Chambers
Dwain Anthony Chambers (born 5 April 1978 in London) is a former English sprinter, turned American football player, currently contracted to NFL Europa with the Hamburg Sea Devils.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Inessa Kravets
The Ukrainian triple jumper Inessa Kravets, née Shulyak jumped the world record at the 1995 World Championships after studying a picture of Jonathan Edwards. She has also competed at a high level in the Long jump.
- Angella Taylor-Issajenko
Angella Taylor-Issajenko is a former Canadian sprinter. In 1985, she was made a Member of the Order of Canada. She was a part of the doping regime of George Astaphan, the physician who infamously supplied Ben Johnson with stanazolol. After Issajenko's training partner Johnson tested positive for stanozolol in 1988, she testified in the Dubin Inquiry and gave a detailed account of widespread substance abuse in athletics.
- 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, …
- James Beckford
James Beckford (born January 9, 1975 in Saint Mary, Jamaica) is a Jamaican athlete competing in the long jump.
- 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.
- 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, …
- 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, …
- Clement Chukwu
Clement Chukwu (born July 7, 1973) is a former Nigerian athlete who specialised in the 200 and 400 metres. He was banned between 1992 and 1996 for a positive drug test, but he competed at the 1996 Olympics over 400 metres, being knocked out in the quarter finals. Later he won gold medals in this event at the 1997 Universiade and the 1998 African Championships, and a silver medal at the 1999 All-Africa Games.
- 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, …
- 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, …
- 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.
- Davidson Ezinwa
Davidson Ezinwa (born November 22, 1971) is a former sprinter from Nigeria. He won a silver medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics as well as a silver medal at the 1997 World Championships, both in 4 x 100 metres relay. He also won a 60 metres silver medal at the 1997 World Indoor Championships. In 100 metres his personal best time is 9.94 seconds, although he has recorded 9.91 s, albeit with a doubtful wind reading of -2.3 m/s which is an unlikely weather condition for records.
- 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.
- 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.