- Michael Johnson
Michael Duane Johnson (born September 13, 1967) is a retired American sprinter who holds world records in the 200 m, 400 m and 4 x 400 m relay (2:54.20, as part of the USA team). He also has run the fastest 300 m ever, an event not recognized by the IAAF. He won five Olympic gold medals and was a world champion nine times. He is the only man to win both the 200 m and 400 m races at the same Olympics, accomplishing the feat at the 1996 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. - Steve Lewis
Steven Earl ("Steve") Lewis (born May 16, 1969) is a former American track and field athlete, winner of three gold medals at the 1988 Summer Olympics and 1992 Summer Olympics. Born in Los Angeles, California, Steve Lewis attended American High School in Fremont, California where he graduated in 1987. While at American he competed in track and field and still holds the Mission Valley Athletic League record in the 400 meters. He would go on to attend UCLA. - 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. - Lee Evans
Lee Edward Evans (born February 25, 1947) is a former American athlete, winner of two gold medals at the 1968 Summer Olympics. Born in Madera, California, Evans was undefeated in high school and won his first AAU championship in 440 yd (402.34 m) in 1966, shortly after graduating. He repeated his win in next year and won AAU and NCAA 400 m titles in 1968. Lee Evans achieved his first world record at 1966, … - William Roberts
William "Bill" Roberts (April 5, 1912 - December 5, 2001) was a British athlete, winner of gold medal in 4x100 m relay at the 1936 Summer Olympics. Born in Salford, Lancashire, William Roberts won the British AAA championships in 440 yd in 1935 and 1937. At the 1934 British Empire Games, Roberts finished second in 440 yd behind Godfrey Rampling, but turned the silver into the gold medal in the next British Empire Games in 1938 in Sydney, Australia. - Larry James
George Lawrence ("Larry") James (born November 6, 1947) is a former American athlete. A double medalist at the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City, Larry James also set world records and won NCAA titles during his track career. James won the silver medal in the 400 m with his time of 43.97 seconds at the 1968 Olympics, bettering the existing world record but placing him second behind teammate (and fellow Hall of Famer) Lee Evans (43.86). - Harrison Dillard
William Harrison Dillard (born July 8, 1923) is an American athlete, the only male so far to win Olympic titles in both sprinting and hurdling events. Harrison Dillard, born in Cleveland, Ohio, after serving in the army duty during World War II, returned to college, joined Pi Lambda Phi International Fraternity, and resumed athletics, to which he had been inspired by Jesse Owens, who was also from Cleveland and attended East Technical High School as well. - Leroy Burrell
Leroy Russel Burrell (born February 21, 1967) is a former American athlete who twice set the world record for the 100 meter sprint, setting a time of 9.90 seconds in June 1991. This was then broken by Carl Lewis within a month. Burrell set the record for a second time when he ran 9.85 seconds in 1994, a record that stood until the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, when Donovan Bailey ran 9.84. Burrell grew up in Lansdowne, … - Robert Taylor
Robert Taylor (born September 14, 1948) is a former American athlete, winner of gold medal in 4x100 m relay at the 1972 Summer Olympics. He is the father of NFL player Bobby Taylor. Taylor won the AAU championships in 100 m in 1972 and in 400 m in 1977. At the Munich Olympics, Taylor was second in the 100 m and also ran the second leg in the American 4x100 m relay team, which won a gold medal and equalled the United States' own world record of 38.19. - 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. - Paul Drayton
Otis Paul Drayton (born May 8 1939) is a former American athlete, winner of gold medal in 4x100 m relay at the 1964 Summer Olympics. Born in Glen Cove, New York, Paul Drayton was an AAU champion in 220 yd from 1961 to 1963. In 1961, he was a member of world record 39.1 setting American 4x100 m relay team and equalled the 200 m world record of 20.5 in 1962. - Angelo Taylor
Angelo F. Taylor (born December 29, 1978) is an American athlete, winner of 400 m hurdles at the 2000 Summer Olympics. Born in Albany, Georgia, Angelo Taylor studied at the Georgia Institute of Technology and won the NCAA title in 1998 and placed second in 1997. In 1998, Taylor also won a silver medal at the US National Championships. He went on to win the title three times from 1999 to 2001. Taylor made his debut at the major tournaments at the 1999 World Championships, … - Mel Sheppard
Melvin Whinfield ("Mel") Sheppard was an American athlete, winner of four gold medals at the 1908 Summer Olympics and 1912 Summer Olympics. Born in Almonesson Lake, New Jersey, Mel Sheppard, or "Peerless Mel" as he was nicknamed, was rejected by the New York Police because he had a weak heart. - Arthur Wint
Arthur Stanley Wint (March 25, 1920 - October 19, 1992) was the first Jamaican Olympic gold medallist, winning the 400 m at 1948 Summer Olympics. Arthur Wint, known as the "Gentle Giant", was born in Plowden, Manchester, Jamaica. In 1937 he was the Jamaica Boy Athlete of the year, the following year he won a gold medal in the 800 m at the Central American Games in Panama. In 1942 he joined the Royal Air Force and set the Canadian 400 m record while training there. - Jon Drummond
Jonathan A. "Jon" Drummond is an American athlete, winner of gold medal in 4x100 m relay at the 2000 Summer Olympics. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Jon Drummond is known for being among the world’s best starters. In 1991, Drummond won the 200 m at the World University Games. At the 1993 World Championships, Drummond ran the opening leg on the American 4x100 m relay team, which won the gold medal and equalled the world record of 37.40. - Herb McKenley
Herbert ("Herb") Henry McKenley (born July 10, 1922) is a former Jamaican athlete, winner of gold medal in 4x400 m relay at the 1952 Summer Olympics. Born in Pleasant Valley, Clarendon, Jamaica, Herb McKenley enrolled the University of Illinois, and won the NCAA championships in 220 yd and 440 yd in 1946 and 1947. He was also the AAU champion in 440 yd in 1945, 1947 and 1948, and was also the head of the list of world best times in 100 m (10.3), … - Calvin Smith
Calvin Smith (born January 8, 1961) is a former sprint athlete from the United States. He is a former World Record holder in the 100 metre sprint, and was twice World Champion over 200 metres. Smith was undoubtedly one of the best sprinters in the world in the 1980s, though for most of his career Smith, who was a quiet and unassuming character, ran in the shadow of the more charismatic American sprinting great Carl Lewis. Smith set the 100 metre world record on July 3 1983, … - Ted Meredith
James Edwin "Ted" Meredith (November 14 1891 - November 2 1957) was an American athlete, winner of two gold medals at the 1912 Summer Olympics. Born in Chester Heights, Pennsylvania, Ted Meredith made the 1912 Olympic team while still in high school at Mercersburg Academy. In Stockholm, he won a gold medal in the 800 m run with a world record 1:51.9. He ran on to the 880 yd mark and also set a world record for that distance, … - 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. - Otis Davis
Otis Crandall Davis (born July 12, 1932) is a former American athlete, winner of two gold medals at the 1960 Summer Olympics. Most of America's great track and field champions began their careers in high school or even earlier. But Otis Davis, born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, took a different route. Basketball was his earliest game and he didn't take up track and the 400 m dash until age 26, as a student at the University of Oregon. Davis ran for the legendary Bill Bowerman. - Tom Courtney
Thomas ("Tom") William Courtney (born August 17, 1933) is a former American athlete, winner of two gold medals at the 1956 Summer Olympics. Born in Newark, New Jersey, Tom Courtney came into national prominence while a student at Fordham University, winning the 1955 NCAA 880 yd (805 m) title. An AAU champion in 400 m at 1956 and in 880 yd (805 m) at 1957 and 1958, Courtney had a memorable duel with Derek Johnson of Great Britain in the 1956 Olympic 800 m final. - Dean Smith
Finis Dean Smith (born January 15, 1932) is a former American athlete and stuntman, winner of gold medal in 4x100 m relay at the 1952 Summer Olympics. Born in Breckenridge, Texas, Smith won the AAU championships in 100 m in 1952. At the Helsinki Olympics, he was fourth in the 100 m and ran the leadoff leg for American gold medal winning 4x100 m relay team. After graduating from University of Texas at Austin, … - Leslie Laing
Leslie Alphonso Laing (born February 19, 1925) is a former Jamaican athlete, winner of gold medal in 4x400 m relay at the 1952 Summer Olympics. Born in Linstead, Jamaica, Leslie Laing competed already in the 1948 Summer Olympics, where he finished sixth in 200 m and was eliminated in the heats of 100 m. He probably missed a medal, when Arthur Wint pulled a muscle in the 4 x 400 m relay final. - Alonzo Babers
Alonzo C. Babers (born October 31, 1961) is a former American athlete, winner of two gold medals at the 1984 Summer Olympics, in the 400m and the 4x400m relay. Born in Montgomery, Alabama, Alonzo Babers attended the United States Air Force Academy from 1979 to 1983, where he ran track and played one season of football. The international athletics career of Alonzo Babers consisted of a spectacular rise to fame, followed by a decisive and abrupt end. - Viktor Markin
Viktor Fyodorovich Markin (born February 23, 1957 in the village of Oktyabrsky, Ust-Tarksky District, Novosibirsk Oblast) is a former Soviet athlete, winner of two gold medals at the 1980 Summer Olympics. After graduating from a secondary school he went to Novosibirsk, where he entered the Faculty of Pediatrics of the Institute of Medicine. Markin started athletics only at age 19 in the athletics section by the institute, coached by Aleksandr Bukhasheyev. - Robert Ouko
Robert Ouko (born October 24, 1948) is a former Kenyan athlete, winner of gold medal in 4x400 m relay at the 1972 Summer Olympics. Robert Ouko won two golds at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games, first in 800 m and then as a member of the Kenyan 4x400 m relay team. At the same year he was also a member of a Kenyan 4x880 yd relay team, which set the new world record of 7:11.6. At the Munich Olympics, … - Louis Jones
Louis ("Lou") Woodard Jones (born January 15, 1932 - died February 3, 2006) is a former American athlete, winner of the gold medal in the 4x400 m relay at the 1956 Summer Olympics. Born in New Rochelle, New York, Lou Jones won the 400 m at the 1955 Pan-American Games, where he set a new world record of 45.4. He was also a member of the gold medal winning American 4x400 m relay team. Just four months before the Melbourne Olympics, Jones ran over his 400 m world record, … - 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. - Charles Asati
Charles Asati (born March 3, 1946) is a former Kenyan athlete, winner of gold medal in 4x400 m relay at the 1972 Summer Olympics. At the 1968 Summer Olympics, Charles Asati reached to the quarterfinal of 200 m and was a member of Kenyan 4x400 m relay team, which won the surprise silver medal, with a time of 2:59.6. At the 1970 British Commonwealth Games, … - Robert Lindsay
Robert Alexander Lindsay (April 18, 1890 - October 21, 1958) was a British athlete, winner of gold medal in 4x400 m relay at the 1920 Summer Olympics. Born in Battersea, London, Robert Lindsay won the British AAA 440 yd championships in 1921. At the Antwerp Olympics, Lindsay reached to the quarterfinals of 400 m and ran the second leg in the British 4x400 m relay team, which took gold with 3.22.2. Rob lindsay enjoys receiving Turkish eyeballs from ross firth - 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, … - Roy Cochran
LeRoy Braxton ("Roy") Cochran (January 26, 1919 - September 26, 1981) was an American athlete, winner of two gold medals at the 1948 Summer Olympics. Born in Richton, Mississippi, as the ninth of ten children to a sportive family. Cochran played football and was a one-man track team in the high school. Cochran wanted to go to Tulane University with a football scholarship, but was persuaded by his older brother Commodore, … - Inge de Bruijn
Inge de Bruijn (born August 24, 1973) is a former Dutch swimmer, and a four-time Olympic champion. - Tyree Washington
Tyree Washington (born 28 August 1976 in Riverside, California) is an African American athlete. He attended both La Sierra High School and San Bernardino Valley College. He is currently coached by Antonio Pettigrew, who ran alongside Tyree, Michael Johnson and Jerome Young in breaking the 4 x 400 metre relay world record in 1998 with a time of 2 minutes 54.2 seconds. - Irina Privalova
Irina Privalova (born Sergeyeva on November 22, 1968 in Malakhova) is a Russian athlete. She first competed in the sprint events, winning two Olympic medals in the 100 m and 200 m in 1992 whilst representing the Unified Team. Irina Privalova has been a formidable competitor during most of the 1990s but has yet to win an outdoor world championship gold medal. - Olga Kotlyarova
Olga Kotlyarova (born April 12, 1976 in Sverdlovsk) is a Russian runner. She used to compete mainly in 400 metres, and has an Olympic bronze medal from 2000 in relay. She is also a world champion (indoor and outdoor) in this event. In 2005 she concentrated more on the 800 metres distance, managing to set a new personal best and to finish fourth at the World Athletics Final. In August 2006 she became the European Champion on the 800 metres. - Godfrey Rampling
Godfrey Lionel Rampling (born May 14, 1909) is a former English athlete and army officer, winner of gold medal in 4x100 m relay at the 1936 Summer Olympics. Born in London, Godfrey Rampling won the British AAA championships in 440 yd in 1931 and 1934. At the 1932 Summer Olympics, Rampling was fourth in his semifinal and didn't reached to the final, but helped, as an anchor, the British 4x400 m relay team to win a silver medal, behind the United States. - Godfrey Brown
Arthur Godfrey Kilner Brown (February 21, 1915 - February 4, 1995) was a British athlete, winner of gold medal in 4x400 m relay at the 1936 Summer Olympics. He later became Headmaster at the Royal Grammar School Worcester, a post which he held from 1950 until his retirement in 1978. Born in Bankura, Bengal, India, Godfrey Brown was a highly talented runner at distances from 100 yd to the half mile. - 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.
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