- Ryan Newman
Ryan Joseph Newman (born December 8, 1977 in South Bend, Indiana) is a driver in the NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series. He drives the #12 Alltel, Mobil Oil Dodge Charger for Penske Racing. Newman, along with the late Alan Kulwicki, is one of the few NASCAR racers with a college degree, graduating from Purdue University in 2001 with a B. S. in vehicle structure engineering (Kulwicki's degree was in mechanical engineering). In 2002, he was the Raybestos Rookie of the Year.
- Tyson Gay
Tyson Gay (born August 9, 1982) is a top ranked American sprint athlete. Tyson attended Lafayette Senior High School in Lexington, Kentucky where he was a standout track star, winning several state titles. Gay competed collegiately at Barton Community College and the University of Arkansas and in 2004 he won the 100 metres contest at the NCAA Outdoor Championships as well as achieving 10.06 in June. 2005 saw him concentrate more on the 200 metres, …
- 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.
- 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
- Maurice Greene
Maurice Greene (born July 23, 1974) is an American sprinter in athletics, who holds several world records and Olympic medals. He was the former world record holder for the 100m, with a time of 9.79 seconds, a record which was broken in 2005 by Asafa Powell.
- Muriel Hurtis
Muriel Hurtis (born March 25, 1979 in Bondy) is an athlete from France. She specialises in the 200 metre sprint (race) (in which she is the reigning European champion) and 4x100 metre relay events. In the 2004 Olympics she failed to qualify for the semi-finals of the 200 metres. She won the bronze medal in the 4x100m relay at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece.
- Theo Bos
Theo Bos (born August 22, in Hierden) is a Dutch track cyclist, Olympic silver medalist and 4-time world champion. He won silver at the 2004 Summer Olympics in the sprint event. He has won an individual gold in the sprint and 1 km time trial (or "kilo") at the 2004 UCI Track World Championships. The following year, he captured a silver medal in team sprint at the 2005 UCI Track World Championships. In 2006 at the at the UCI Track World Championships, …
- Wallace Spearmon
Wallace Spearmon, Jr., (born December 24, 1984) in Chicago, Illinois, USA is a sprint athlete. Spearmon is a graduate of Fayetteville High School and currently attends the University of Arkansas, where he competed collegiately for two seasons before turning pro. While at Arkansas, he won the 200 meter dash (200m) NCAA Outdoor title in 2004 and 2005 as well as the NCAA Indoor 200m title in 2005.
- Shawn Crawford
Shawn Crawford (born January 14, 1978) is a sprint athlete from the United States.
- Olaf Pollack
Olaf Pollack is a professional road racing cyclist specializing in sprint races and competitions.
- Walter Dix
Walter Dix of Coral Springs, Florida, United States of America is an American sprinter. Walter attends Florida State University in Tallahassee. He is a seven-time NCAA champion, 2005 outdoor 100 m, 2006 indoor and outdoor 200 m, 2007 indoor 200 m, outdoor 100 m, 200 m, and 4x100 meter relay. In the 2007 NCAA East Regional final he set the all-time collegiate record of 19.69 in the 200, …
- Kim Gevaert
Kim Gevaert (born August 5, 1978 in Leuven) is a Belgian sprint athlete. Her closest brush with a world title came in running 4/100th's of a second behind 3 times champion Gail Devers at the 2004 IAAF World Indoor Championships in Athletics. At the next World Indoor Championships, in 2006, she won the bronze medal in a national record time of 7.11 seconds. On August 9, 2006 she won the 100 metres at the European Championships in 11.06 seconds.
- Francis Obikwelu
Francis Obiorah Obikwelu, born November 22, 1978 in Nigeria and a Portuguese citizen since 2001, is a sprint athlete specializing in 100 m and 200 m, who finished second in the 100 m at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, the first medal ever in athletics sprinting events for Portugal. He won 100m and 200m in 2006 at the European Championships in Athletics and became the first athlete to win both 100 and 200m in the same Euros since 1978.
- Ryan Bayley
Ryan Bayley OAM (born March 9, 1982 in Perth, Western Australia) is a professional cyclist, who started competitive cycling in 1997 at fifteen years of age. He is a member of the "Albany Cycling Club" and employed by the Australian Institute of Sport. He lives in Alexander Heights, a suburb of Perth. His greatest success as a track cyclist has been in the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, where he won gold medals in the sprint and Keirin events.
- Colin Jackson
Colin Ray Jackson CBE (born February 18, 1967 in Cardiff, Wales) is a Welsh sprint and hurdling athlete of Jamaican and Scottish ancestry, who now works as a sports commentator and television presenter predominantly for the BBC.
- Adam Petty
Adam Kyler Petty (July 10, 1980 - May 12, 2000) was an auto racing car driver. He was the first fourth-generation driver in NASCAR history.
- 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.
- Darren Campbell
Darren Campbell (born September 12 1973 in Moss Side, Manchester, England) is a retired English sprint athlete. He competed in the 100 m and 200 m, as well as the 4 x 100 m relay.
- 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, …
- Jennie Reed
Jennie Reed (born April 20, 1978) is a U.S. National Champion track cyclist and Olympian (2004). Reed won her first national titles in 1994 at the U.S. Junior Track National Championships held at the Marymoor Velodrome near Seattle, Washington where she won both the 2 km pursuit and the matched sprints. The following year, she repeated as pursuits champion at the U.S. Junior Nationals.
- 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.
- Darvis Patton
Darvis Patton (born: December 4, 1977 in Dallas, Texas) is an American sprint athlete. A very versatile athlete, Patton competed at both the long jump and triple jump in his High School and College days but now concentrates his time around the 200 metres event.
- John Ferguson
John Ferguson, sometimes known as Johnny or Jake, (born 1848, in Alexandria, West Dunbartonshire; died 6 September, 1929) was a football player for Vale of Leven F.C. and Scotland, in the very early days of Scottish football in the 1870s. Previously a noted shinty player and sprinter, Ferguson joined Vale of Leven in 1872. He was part of their great team which won the Scottish Cup three times.
- James Walker
James Walker (born 15 January 1979) is an Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League, playing for the Fremantle Football Club. He plays as a midfielder or defender. Walker was drafted from with the 6th selection in the 1997 National Draft and made his AFL debut against Essendon at Subiaco Oval in Round 19, 1998. He has since played over 100 games for Fremantle. When not selected for the Fremantle side, he plays for the Peel Thunder in the WAFL.
- Dunc Gray
Edgar Laurence ("Dunc") Gray (July 17, 1906 - 30 August, 1996) was a track cyclist from Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia who won Australia's first Olympic Games medal in cycling at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam: a bronze medal for the 1000m Time Trial. Four years later at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles he won Australia's first cycling gold medal in the same event in World and Olympic record time (1.13).
- Brian Baker
Brian Edward Baker (born July 16, 1967, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American actor best known for his recurring role as a trenchcoated spokesman in Sprint's television commercials. Baker began his acting career at the age of eleven as a member of a now-defunct community film enthusiast club known as "Cinekyd", based in Willow Grove, Pennsylvania, where youngsters acted in, directed, edited, and produced amateur movies under adult supervision.
- 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.
- David Dorman
David W. Dorman (born 1954 in Georgia) is an American Telecommunications executive, currently serving on the board of Motorola. In 2000, he took on the task of rebuilding AT&T, whose total stock value had fallen from a high of $110 billion to a low of less than $11 billion. Prior to SBC Communications's acquisition of AT&T Corp. on 18 November, 2005, Dorman was chairman and chief executive officer of AT&T.
- Heike Drechsler
Heike Gabriela Drechsler nèe Daute (born December 16, 1964 in Gera, then East Germany) is a German track and field athlete. She is one of the most successful female long jumpers of all time and also had several successes in sprint disciplines. She is the only woman who has won two Olympic gold medals in the long jump (1992 and 2000). She also won two World Championships in the long jump (1983 and 1993), …
- Debbie Ferguson
Debbie Ferguson (born: January 16, 1976) ia a Bahamian sprint athlete. Debbie attended St Andrew's School in Nassau, Bahamas and graduated in 1994. She is still fondly remembered by many of her peers, teachers, and administrators. Debbie graduated from University of Georgia from where she launched her senior athletics career since which she has gained medals at the Summer Olympics, IAAF World Championships in Athletics, Commonwealth Games and Pan American Games.
- Patrick Sercu
Patrick Sercu (born June 27, 1944 in Roeselare) is a former Belgian cyclist, best known for his exploits on the tracks. He won a gold medal at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Sercu is also known for winning several six-day track races with cycling great Eddy Merckx. Sercu was a top performer on the tracks, being twice World Champion in the Sprint discipline and a popular competitor in the Madison in addition to his Olympic victory.
- Obadele Thompson
Obadele Thompson (born March 30, 1976) is a sprint athlete from Barbados. In 2000, he became the first individual Olympic medalist for his island nation. Born in Saint Michael, Thompson attended Harrison College (the island's top school) before earning a scholarship, and graduated with honors with a degree in marketing and economics from the University of Texas at El Paso, United States.
- 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, …
- 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.
- Jaysuma Saidy Ndure
Jaysuma Saidy Ndure (born July 1, 1984 in Bakau) is a Gambian sprinter. He finished third in 100 metres at the 2004 African Championships, and won the 200 metres at the 2001 West African Championships. At the 2006 IAAF World Athletics Final in Stuttgart he finished sixth in the 200 metres in a new Gambian record time of 20.47 seconds. Saidy currently lives in Oslo, Norway and represents IL i BUL.
- Susanthika Jayasinghe
Susanthika Jayasinghe (born December 17, 1975 in Atnawala, Sri Lanka) is a sprint athlete specializing in the 100 and 200 metres. Brought up in a poor family in a small village 60 kilometres north of Colombo, where running spikes cost more than the average month's wage, Susanthika had no access to proper sports equipment or coaches.
- Somaya Reece
Somaya Reece is a model, actress, photographer, and musician. She was named the number 1 Latina in music next to Shakira and Christina Aguilera in the August 2006 issue of "Maxim en Español" and dubbed a "triple threat" by Latino Entertainment TV. Reece has appeared on "Entourage" and "Girlfriends". She's better known for her MySpace presence where she has over 425,000 (as of jan 11 2007) friends and is the site's #1 Latina.
- Marita Koch
Marita Koch (born February 18, 1957 in Wismar, East Germany) is a former sprint athlete.
- 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, …
- Iñaki Isasi
Iñaki Isasi Flores is a Spanish racing cyclist who rides for the Euskaltel-Euskadi team in the UCI ProTour. Isasi turned profession in 2001 and had yet to record a major result of note in his five years as a professional. Isasi can climb and sprint and was a feature in many breakways in the 2006 Tour de France where he finished 3rd on stage 3 won by Óscar Freire of Rabobank.