- 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. - 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 - Ralph Metcalfe
Ralph Harold Metcalfe was an American athlete who jointly held the world record for the 100 metre sprint. Metcalfe was known as the world’s fastest human from 1932 through 1934. Born in Atlanta, Georgia, Metcalfe studied at Marquette University and equalled the record of 10.3 seconds on a number of occasions, as well as equalling the 200 metre record of 20.6 seconds. At the 1932 Summer Olympics he virtually dead-heated with his rival Eddie Tolan, … - 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. - Mal Whitfield
Malvin ("Mal") Greston Whitfield (born October 11, 1924) is a former American athlete, a double winner of 800 m at the Olympic Games. Born in Bay City, Texas, Mal Whitfield, or "Marvelous Mal" as he was called, joined the United States Air Force in 1943. After World War II, he remained in the air force but also enrolled at the Ohio State University. In the early 1950s he also served in the air force during the Korean War. - Avery Brundage
Avery Brundage (September 28 1887 - May 8 1975) was an American athlete, sports official, art collector and philanthropist. He has been heavily criticized for decisions he took as a member of the United States Olympic Committee and as president of the International Olympic Committee, many of which would now be classed as racist. Born in Detroit, Brundage studied civil engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, graduating in 1909. - Adam Goucher
Adam Goucher (born February 18 1975) is an American cross-country and track and field athlete. He primarily competes in middle distance events and is featured in "Running With The Buffaloes", a book revolving around the 1998 season of the University of Colorado cross country team. Goucher attended Doherty High School in Colorado Springs, Colorado and graduated in 1994. He won the Foot Locker National High School Cross Country Championship in 1993, … - 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). - 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). - Kevin Young
Kevin Curtis Young (born September 16, 1966) is a former American athlete. He was the winner of the 400 metre hurdles at the 1992 Summer Olympics, and still holds the world record that event. Born in Watts, California, Kevin Young, as an University of California, Los Angeles "walk-on", won the NCAA titles in 400 m hurdles in 1987 and 1988. Young made his debut at the international scene by finishing second at the 1987 Pan American Games. - Quincy Watts
Quincy D. Watts (born June 19, 1970) is a former American athlete, winner of two gold medals at the 1992 Summer Olympics. Born in Detroit, Michigan, Quincy Watts attended the University of Southern California where he excelled not only as an athlete but also as a wide receiver on the college football team. He was also a promising basketball player in high school. At first, Watts was a short sprinter, specializing for 100 m and 200 m, but the USC coach Jim Bush, … - Babe Zaharias
Mildred Ella "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias (June 26, 1911 - September 27, 1956) was an American athlete considered to be perhaps the greatest all-around female athlete of all time. She achieved outstanding success in golf, basketball and track and field. - 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, … - Bruce Jenner
William Bruce Jenner (born October 28, 1949 in Mount Kisco, New York) is a U.S. track athlete. An excellent high school athlete, Bruce Jenner attended Newtown High School in Newtown, Connecticut, transferring from Sleepy Hollow High School in Tarrytown, New York. (Years later, the stadium there was to be named after him, … - John Woodruff
John Youie Woodruff (born July 5, 1915) is a former American athlete, winner of 800 m at the 1936 Summer Olympics. Born in Connellsville, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, USA, "Long" John Woodruff was only a freshman at the University of Pittsburgh in 1936 when he placed second at the National AAU meet, earning a spot on the U.S. Olympic team. Despite his inexperience, he was the favorite in the Olympic 800 m, and he did not disappoint. - Al Joyner
Alfredrick "Al" Alphonzo Joyner, born January 19, 1960 in East St. Louis, Illinois, United States, is an Olympic gold medalist in the triple jump. Joyner was married to the late Florence Griffith-Joyner, a multiple Olympic medal-winning sprinter. They had one daughter Mary Ruth. His sister Jackie Joyner-Kersee is also an Olympic gold medalist. Joyner married for a second time on June 28, 2003 to Alisha Biehn. The couple has a daughter, Skylar Rose and a son, … - Louis Zamperini
Louis S. Zamperini (born January 26, 1917 in Olean, New York) is a World War II prisoner of war survivor, inspirational speaker, and former American competitive runner. - Brian Lewis
Brian M. Lewis (born December 5, 1974) is an American athlete, winner of gold medal in 4x100 m relay at the 2000 Summer Olympics. Born in Sacramento, California, Brian Lewis played baseball (his father and uncle had played professional baseball) through his ninth grade, but moved then to athletics, because he didn't want his father to coach him. Lewis was the member of American 4x100 m relay team, that did not finish its heat at the 1997 World Championships. - Bob Richards
The Rev. Robert "Bob" Eugene Richards (born February 20 1926 in Champaign, Illinois), known as the "Vaulting Vicar" in his competitive days, was a versatile athlete who made three Olympic teams in two events. He competed in the 1948, 1952, and 1956 Summer Olympics as a pole vaulter, and also was a decathlete in 1956. The second man to pole vault 15 feet, he was the Olympic pole vault gold medalist in 1952 and 1956 after winning the bronze medal in 1948. - Lauryn Williams
Lauryn Williams (born September 11, 1983 in Rochester, Pennsylvania) is a track and field sprint athlete, competing internationally for the United States. Williams was born and raised in suburban Pittsburgh and attended the University of Miami. Williams is a silver medalist in the 100 meters at the 2004 Summer Olympics and a gold medalist in the 100 meters at the 2005 World Championships in Athletics, where she won (together with Angela Daigle, … - George Baird
George Hetzel Baird (March 5, 1907 - September 4, 2004) was an American athlete, winner of gold medal in 4x400 m relay at the 1928 Summer Olympics. Born in Grand Island, Nebraska, George Baird ran the opening leg in the gold medal winning American 4x400 m relay team at the Amsterdam Olympics, which set the new world record of 3:14.2. Just a week after the Olympics, Baird set his second 4x400 m relay world record of 3:13.4, running again the opening leg in London. - Earl Young
Earl Verdelle Young (born February 14, 1941) is a former American athlete, winner of gold medal in 4x400 m relay at the 1960 Summer Olympics. At the Rome Olympics, Earl Young was sixth in 400 m and ran the second leg in the American 4x400 m relay team, which won the gold medal with a new world record of 3.02.2. At the 1963 Pan-American Games, Young won gold medals in both 4x100 m relay and 4x400 m relay. - Frank Wykoff
Frank Clifford Wykoff (October 29, 1909 - January 1, 1980) was an American athlete, triple gold medal winner in 4x100 m relay at the Olympic Games. Born in Des Moines, Iowa, Frank Wykoff has a place in track and field history by being the first man to ever win three Olympic relay gold medals, all in world record time. Wykoff made his debut at the Olympic Games in Amsterdam, where he finished fourth in the 100 m and ran an opening leg in the American 4x100 m relay team, … - Alice Coachman
Alice Marie Coachman is an American former athlete. She specialized in high jump, and was the first black woman to win an Olympic gold medal. Coachman dominated the AAU outdoor high jump championship from 1939 through 1948, but was unable to compete in the Olympic Games as they were cancelled in 1940 and 1944 because of World War II. In the high jump finals of the 1948 Summer Olympics, Coachman leaped 1.68 m (5 ft 6⅛ in) on her first try. - Eddie Tolan
Thomas Edward "Eddie" Tolan (September 29, 1908 - January 30/31, 1967) was an American athlete and sprinter and winner of two gold medals at the 1932 Summer Olympics. - Jackson Scholz
Jackson Volney Scholz (March 15, 1897 - October 26, 1986) was an American track and field athlete, specialized in the sprint. In the 1920s, he became the first person to appear in an Olympic sprint final in three different Olympic Games. After his athletic career, he also gained fame as a writer. - Craig Virgin
Craig Steven Virgin (born August 2, 1955) is an American distance runner. He was born in Belleville, Illinois and grew up near Lebanon, Illinois. While in high school, Virgin won 5 state championships as well as setting the national outdoor 2-mile record of 8:40.9 (beating Steve Prefontaine's mark of 8:41.5, though slightly short of Gerry Lindgren's 8:40.0 indoor record from 1964). - Willie Davenport
William "Willie" D. Davenport (June 8, 1943 - June 17, 2002) was an American athlete, born in Troy, Alabama. He participated in hurdling events in four Olympic Games, winning the title in 1968. In 1980, he also took part in the Olympic Winter Games as a runner for the American bobsleigh team. Davenport took part in his first Olympics in 1964, reaching the semi-finals of the 110 m hurdles event. In Mexico, in 1968, he reached the final and won: "From the first step, the gun, … - Earl Bell
Earl Holmes Bell is a former pole vaulter from the United States, who won the bronze medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California. Four years later, at his last Olympic appearance, he ended up in fourth place at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. He's a former world record holder, and a 2002 inductee into the "USATF Hall of Fame". - Parry O'Brien
William Patrick "Parry" O'Brien was an American shot put champion. Born in Santa Monica, California, he competed in four consecutive Summer Olympics where he won two gold medals (1952, 1956) and one silver medal (1960). In his last Olympic competition (1964) he placed fourth. For this, he is inducted in the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame. In the early 1950s, O'Brien developed a new method for throwing the 16-pound shotput. - Ray Barbuti
Raymond "Ray" James Barbuti (June 12 1905 - July 8 1988) was an American athlete and American football player, winner of two gold medals at the 1928 Summer Olympics. Ray Barbuti was born in Nassau County, New York and attended Syracuse University where he won the IC4A championship at 400 m in 1928 in a time of 48.8 seconds, and once scored eight touchdowns in one game. - Angela Williams
Angela Williams (born 30 January 1980 in Bellflower, California) is an American athlete. Starting for the American national team in 2001, she won a silver medal in the 60 metres competition at the 2001 IAAF World Indoor Championships. She later repeated the event at the 2003 Indoor Championships. At the 2003 World Championships in Athletics she won silver in the 4 x 100 m relay, along with teammates Chryste Gaines, Inger Miller, and Torri Edwards. - Tom Pappas
Tom Pappas (born September 6, 1976 in Azalea, Oregon) is an American track & field decathlete. Pappas won the gold medal at the 2003 World Championships held outside Paris, France, and was rated number 1 in the world that year by Track & Field News. He is a four-time US champion (2000, 2002, 2003, 2006) and was the 1999 NCAA champion while attending the University of Tennessee. He finished fifth at the 2000 Olympic decathlon, … - Alan Webb
Alan Webb (born January 13, 1983, in Ann Arbor, Michigan) is an American track athlete. He holds a personal best of 3:30.54 in the 1500m, making him the third fastest American of all time at that distance. He competes professionally for Nike. - Ulis Williams
Ulis C. Williams (born October 24, 1941) is a former American athlete, winner of a gold medal in the 4 x 400 meter relay at the 1964 Summer Olympics. He later served as President of Compton Community College in Compton, California, from 1996 to 2005. Born in Hollandale, Mississippi, Ulis Williams won the AAU championships in the 440-yard dash in 1962 and 1963. - Valerie Brisco-Hooks
Valerie Ann Brisco-Hooks (born July 6, 1960 in Greenwood, Mississippi) won three gold medals as an Olympic track and field athlete at the 1984 Olympics at Los Angeles, California, making her the first Olympian to win gold medals in both the 200- and 400-meter races. She also won a gold medal for the 4x400 m. Brisco competed in the 1988 Olympic Games, which took place in Seoul, South Korea, … - Dwight Stones
Dwight Edwin Stones (born December 6, 1953 - Los Angeles, California) is an American television commentator and a two-time Olympic bronze medalist and former three-time world record holder in the men's high jump. During his 16-year career, he won 19 national championships. In 1984, Stones became the first athlete to both compete and announce at the same Olympics. - Bennie Brazell
Bennie Brazell (born June 2, 1982) is an American football wide receiver for the Cincinnati Bengals. He was on the injured reserve list for the 2006 season. Brazell went to college at Louisiana State University where he was a member of the football team as well as the indoor and outdoor track and field teams. At LSU he played on the 2003 football national championship team and he was a five-time track and field national champion and a 14 time All-American. - Sydney Maree
Sydney Maree (b. 1956) is a former middle distance runner who competed at the international level in the 1980s. He was born in South Africa, in the dusty mining town of Cullinan, east of Pretoria, but later became a U.S. citizen, running for the United States in the 5000 meters at the 1987 IAAF World Championships in Athletics (11th place) and 1988 Olympic Games (where he finished in fifth place in the final). - Jack Yerman
Jack Lloyd Yerman is a former American athlete, winner of gold medal in 4×400 m relay at the 1960 Summer Olympics. Jack Yerman was sixth in 400 m at the 1959 Pan-American Games and won the silver medal as a member of an American 4×400 m relay team. Yerman won the 1960 U.S. Olympic Trials 400 m at Stanford in 46.3, but at the Olympics itself, he reached only to the semifinals. But Yerman won a gold medal, as a lead-off runner, …
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