This is a list of notable people who have participated in
masters athletics
Masters athletics is a class of the sport of athletics for athletes of over 35 years of age. The events include track and field, road running and cross country running. Competitors are bracketed into five-year age groups (which promotes fair comp ...
. Most have achieved their primary notoriety through athletic endeavors except when noted.
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Gabriela Andersen-Schiess
Gabriela "Gaby" Andersen-Schiess (born 20 May 1945 in Zürich) is a former Swiss long-distance runner who participated in the first women's Olympic marathon at the 1984 Summer Olympics. Though living in Sun Valley, Idaho, and working as a s ...
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Henry Andrade
Henry Manuel Andrade (born April 17, 1962) is an American- Cape Verdean hurdler. One of the best hurdlers in the United States during the 1980s and early 1990s who, after years of frustration in the American Olympic Trials, achieved his opportun ...
Charles Austin
Charles Allen Austin (born December 19, 1967) is an American athlete who won the gold medal in the men's high jump at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. He was inducted into the United States Track & Field Hall of Fame in 2012. Currently, Ch ...
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Rink Babka
Richard Aldrich Babka (September 23, 1936 – January 15, 2022) was an American discus thrower. A former world record holder, Babka also won a silver medal in the discus event at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome.
He starred in football, basketb ...
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Lee Baca
Leroy David Baca (born May 27, 1942) is a convicted criminal and former American law enforcement officer who served as the 30th Sheriff of Los Angeles County, California from 1998 to 2014. In 2017, he was convicted of felony obstruction of justi ...
Los Angeles County Sheriff
The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department (LASD), officially the County of Los Angeles Sheriff's Department, is a law enforcement agency serving Los Angeles County, California. LASD is the largest sheriff's department in the United States a ...
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Bob Backus
Robert ("Bob") Hudson Backus (July 11, 1926 – June 30, 1999) was an American track and field athlete who set List of world records in athletics, world records in the hammer throw. He wore ballet slippers during competition and after using weight ...
Thane Baker
Walter Thane Baker (born October 4, 1931) is an American former sprinter and winner of the gold medal in the 4x100 m relay at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia, with a new world record of 39.5 seconds. At those Olympics Baker a ...
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Willie Banks
William Augustus Banks III (born March 11, 1956) is an American athlete. Born at Travis Air Force Base, California, he grew up in San Diego County and went to Oceanside High School. Banks is an Eagle Scout.
Track and Field
Banks was a track & ...
Jack Bacheler
Jack Strangl Bacheler (born December 30, 1943) is an American former long-distance runner and two-time U.S. Olympian (5,000 meters in 1968 Mexico City Olympics, and Marathon in 1972 Munich Olympics). Born in Washington, District of Columbia, B ...
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Dieter Baumann
Dieter Baumann (, ; born 9 February 1965) is a former German athlete and winner of the 5000 m at the 1992 Summer Olympics. He also won the silver medal in the same event (5000 m) at the 1988 Summer Olympics. In 1999 Baumann tested positive for na ...
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Tim Berrett
Timothy Berrett (born January 23, 1965 in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent, United Kingdom) is a male race walking, race walker. He came to Canada in 1987.
A resident of Edmonton, Alberta, he represented Canada in five consecutive Summer Olympics st ...
Laurie Binder
Laurie Binder (born August 10, 1947) is an American long-distance runner. She was a four-time winner of the San Francisco Bay to Breakers race, tied with Maryetta Boitano for the most victories, setting the first course record when the race was ...
Peter Blank
Peter Blank (born 10 April 1962) is a German track and field athlete who competed in the javelin throw. Early on in his career, he was a decathlete. In 1992, he set the world record for longest javelin throw in a decathlon with a distance of 79. ...
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Meeri Bodelid
Meeri Annikki Bodelid (Jaako) (born December 23, 1943, in Tornio, Finland) is a Swedish multi sport athlete. Standing she left her mark, winning Swedish national championships in three sports. She competed for Sweden in the 1972 Winter Olympics ...
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Viktor Bolshov
Viktor Bolshov (russian: Виктор Большов; born 23 May 1939) is a retired Soviet high jumper. He competed in the 1960 Olympics finishing fourth behind his teammates Robert Shavlakadze, world record holder Valery Brumel and America ...
Lamberto Boranga
Lamberto Boranga (born 30 October 1942 in Foligno) is an Italian high, long and triple jumper (masters athletics), and football goalkeeper.
Biography
He has 112 appearances in Italian Serie A (Association football first division) with ACF Fiore ...
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Christa Bortignon
Christa Bortignon (b. Jan 29, 1937) is a Canadian masters track and field athlete from West Vancouver, British Columbia.
She holds thirteen world records in the Women's 75-79 division — five indoor (60m, 60m hurdles, 200m, pentathlon, 4X200 rela ...
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Mary Bowermaster Mary L. Bowermaster (July 26, 1917 – March 4, 2011) was a nurse's aide for schools in Butler County, Ohio, until a breast cancer diagnosis in 1979. After a mastectomy and successfully battling the disease, she began a second career in masters ath ...
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Roald Bradstock
Arne Roald Bradstock (aka The "Olympic Picasso") is an Olympic athlete and an Olympic artist from England who competed in the men's javelin throw event during his career. He twice represented Great Britain at the Summer Olympics: 1984 and 1988. ...
Debbie Brill
Debbie Arden Brill, (born March 10, 1953) is a Canadian high jump athlete who at the age of 16 became the first North American woman to clear 6 feet. Her reverse jumping style—which is now almost exclusively the technique of elite high jumpers ...
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Benny Brown
Benny Brown (''Benjamin Gene Brown;'' born September 27, 1953 San Francisco, California – February 1, 1996 Ontario, California) was an Olympic gold-medal winner in the 1976 4x400 Men's Relay running the second leg. He teamed with Herman Frazie ...
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Arto Bryggare
Arto Kalervo Bryggare (born 26 May 1958 in Kouvola) is a Finnish former hurdling athlete. He was a member of the Parliament of Finland, representing the Social Democratic Party of Finland from 1995 to 1999 and 2003 to 2007. His pe ...
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Zola Budd
Zola Budd (also known as Zola Pieterse; born 26 May 1966) is a South African middle-distance and long-distance runner. She competed at the 1984 Olympic Games for Great Britain and the 1992 Olympic Games for South Africa, both times in the 30 ...
John Carlos
John Wesley Carlos (born June 5, 1945) is an American former track and field athlete and professional American football player. He was the bronze-medal winner in the 200 meters at the 1968 Summer Olympics, where he displayed the Black Power sal ...
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Gary Carlsen
Gary David Carlsen (born May 12, 1945, in Ashland, Kentucky) is a retired male discus thrower from the United States. He represented his native country at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, where he ended up in sixth place in the overall-rank ...
Ed Caruthers
Edward Julius Caruthers Jr. (born April 13, 1945) is an American former athlete who competed mainly in the men's high jump event during his career.
Born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, he competed for the United States at the 1968 Summer Olympics h ...
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Dwain Chambers
Dwain Anthony Chambers (born 5 April 1978) is a British track sprinter. He has won international medals at World and European levels and is one of the fastest European sprinters in the history of athletics. His primary event is the 100 me ...
Yelizaveta Chernyshova
Yelizaveta Chernyshova (russian: Елизавета Чернышова; born 26 January 1958) is a Russian former Soviet Union, Soviet hurdles, hurdler. She was the 1989 IAAF World Indoor Championships, 1989 World Indoor Champion.Lydia Cheromei
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Todd Christensen
Todd Jay Christensen (August 3, 1956 – November 13, 2013) was an American football player who played in the National Football League (NFL) from 1978 until 1988, spending most of that time playing tight end for the Oakland / Los Angeles Ra ...
Eamonn Coghlan
Eamonn Christopher Coghlan (born 21 November 1952) is an Irish former track and field athlete who specialised in middle distance track events and the 5,000 metres. He is a three-time Olympian and former world champion in the 5,000 m. He se ...
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Leon Coleman
Leonard "Leon" Coleman (born September 1, 1944, in Alabama) is an American hurdler who competed in the 1968 Summer Olympics
The 1968 Summer Olympics ( es, Juegos Olímpicos de Verano de 1968), officially known as the Games of the XIX Olympiad ...
Harold Connolly
Harold Joseph Connolly (8 September 1901 – 17 May 1980) was a Canadian journalist, newspaper editor, and politician who served as the 15th premier of Nova Scotia in 1954.
Connolly was born in Sydney, Nova Scotia, the son of Richard Joseph ...
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Ted Corbitt
Ted Corbitt (January 31, 1919 – December 12, 2007)"Heroes of Running", interview by Gail Kislevitz in ''Runner's World'', December 2007, p. 70. Corbitt confirmed 1919 to the interviewer as his year of birth. was an American long-distance ru ...
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Bill Cosby
William Henry Cosby Jr. ( ; born July 12, 1937) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, and media personality. He made significant contributions to American and African-American culture, and is well known in the United States for his eccentric ...
Comedian
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Alan Cranston
Alan MacGregor Cranston (June 19, 1914 – December 31, 2000) was an American politician and journalist who served as a United States Senator from California from 1969 to 1993, and as a President of the World Federalist Association from 1949 to 1 ...
U.S. Senator
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Josh Culbreath
Joshua Culbreath (September 14, 1932 – July 1, 2021) was an American athlete who competed mainly in the 400 meter hurdles—the national outdoor champion from 1953 to 1955; three-time winner of the event in the Penn Relays in the same year ...
Jeanne Daprano
Jeanne Daprano (September 16, 1936 - December 1, 2021) was a retired elementary school teacher and world record setting American masters track and field athlete.
Biography
On July 21, 2012, she became the first woman over 75 to run under seven m ...
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Willie Davenport
William "Willie" D. Davenport (June 8, 1943 – June 17, 2002) was an American sprint runner. He attended Howland High School and college at Southern University and A&M College in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He competed in the 110 m hurdles at the ...
Grace-Ann Dinkins Dr. Grace-Ann Dinkins (born September 13, 1966) also known as Gracie-Ann Dinkins or Grace Dinkins, is an Olympic-class track and field athlete from the USA who competes for Liberia, her parents' home country, in the 100 m, 200 m, and 400 m races. ...
also Trauma Surgeon
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Rod Dixon
Rodney Phillip Dixon (born 13 July 1950) is a former New Zealand middle- to long-distance runner. He won the bronze medal in the 1500 metres at the New Zealand at the 1972 Summer Olympics, 1972 Olympics in Munich, and in 1983 won the New Yo ...
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Walter Dix
Walter Dix (born January 31, 1986) is a retired American sprinter who specialized in the 100 meters and 200 meters. He is the sixth-fastest 200-meter runner ever with a best of 19.53 seconds, and has broken the 10-second barrier in the 100 ...
Charles Dumas
Charles Everett "Charlie" Dumas (February 12, 1937 – January 5, 2004) was an American high jumper, the 1956 Olympic champion, and the first person to clear 7 ft.(2.13 m)
While attending Compton College, near Los Angeles, Dum ...
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Ludmila Engquist
Ludmila Viktorovna Engquist (née Leonova (russian: Людмила Викторовна Нарожиленко-Леонова). formerly Narozhilenko; born 21 April 1964) is a Russian-Swedish former athlete, who competed mainly in the 100 metres ...
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Andrés Espinosa
Andrés Espinoza Pérez (born 4 February 1963) is a Mexican former long-distance runner who specialized in marathon races.
Espinosa finished ninth at the 1995 World Championships in Athletics, 1995 World Championships in 2:16:44 hours. He won t ...
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Saskia Estupinan Saskia is a Germanic feminine given name. There are at least two different sources of the name. One is of North German and Northeast Netherlands origin, where it originally meant "a Saxon woman" ( metathesis of "Saxia").
Notable people with the n ...
Public Health Doctor
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Laverne Eve
Laverne Eve (born 16 June 1965, in Nassau) is a female track and field athlete from the Bahamas, who competes in the javelin throw. Her personal best throw (new javelin) is 63.73 metres, achieved in April 2000 in Nashville. In her early career ...
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Lee Evans (sprinter)
Lee Edward Evans (February 25, 1947 – May 19, 2021) was an American sprinter. He won two gold medals in the 1968 Summer Olympics, setting world records in the 400 meters and the 4 × 400 meters relay, both of which stood for 20 and 24 years ...
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Mohamed Ezzher
Mohamed Ezzher (born 26 April 1960 in Khouribga, Morocco) is a French long distance runner. He represented France in the 10,000 metres at the 1996 Olympics. He also represented France four successive times at the IAAF World Championships in Athl ...
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Earl Fee
Earl Fee (born March 22, 1929) is a Canadian track and field athlete.
Biography
After being an above average high school and collegiate runner, Fee spent a career working as a nuclear engineer for the Atomic Energy of Canada Limited, otherwise k ...
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Nuria Fernández
Nuria Fernández Domínguez (born 16 August 1976 in Luzern, Switzerland) is a Spanish middle distance runner. She specialises in the 1500 metres and is the Spanish record holder in the mile run and the 1500 m indoors.
Career
Fernández ha ...
Dick Fosbury
Richard Douglas Fosbury (born March 6, 1947) is an American retired high jumper, who is considered one of the most influential athletes in the history of track and field. Besides winning a gold medal at the 1968 Olympics, he revolutionized the h ...
Ruth Frith
Ruth Pauline Frith (born Ruth Pursehouse, 23 August 1909 – 28 February 2014) was an Australian centenarian Masters athletics, masters athlete. She was the oldest active athlete. She is the current holder of the List of world records in mas ...
Willie Gault
Willie James Gault (born September 5, 1960) is an American former professional football player who was a wide receiver in the National Football League (NFL) for 11 seasons with the Chicago Bears and Los Angeles Raiders. Considered one of the f ...
also American Football Player
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Fortune Gordien
Fortune Everett Gordien (September 9, 1922 – April 10, 1990) was an American discus thrower and shot putter who set four world records in the discus throw. He competed in this event at the 1948, 1952 and 1956 Olympics and placed third, fourth ...
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Miki Gorman
Michiko "Miki" Suwa Gorman (August 9, 1935 – September 19, 2015) was an American marathon runner of Japanese ancestry. Gorman did not begin running competitively until she was in her mid-30s, but rapidly emerged as one of the elite marathoning ...
Dalton Grant
Dalton Grant (born 8 April 1966) is a former high jumper.
Athletics career
Grant won a total number of four national titles for Great Britain (AAA Championships) in the men's high jump event. His personal best jump is 2.36 metres, achieved ...
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Johnny Gray
John Lee Gray Jr. (born June 19, 1960) is a retired American world class 800 meter runner from the mid-1980s to the late 1990s and the holder of the 600m world best. A four-time-Olympian (1984-1996) in 1985 he set the US record of 1:42.60 at a ...
Oct 2000 Ran Masters Mile (Run For Children) as a M40. Holds Masters M35 Record achieved as an Open competitor
* Norm Green
* Jack Greenwood
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Jim Grelle
James Edward Grelle (September 30, 1936 – June 13, 2020) was an American middle-distance runner. He had his best achievements in the 1500 m event, finishing eighth at the 1960 Olympics, winning a gold and a silver medal at the Pan American Gam ...
Robert Hecker
Robert Hecker (born March 7, 1965), is a guitarist, singer, and songwriter with the bands Redd Kross and It's OK!.
Hecker was born in Hermosa Beach, California. He played lead guitar and sang with Redd Kross from 1984 to 1991, and again from 20 ...
Musician
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Bud Held
Franklin Wesley "Bud" Held (born October 25, 1927) is an American athlete primarily notable for his performance throwing the javelin. He was born in Los Angeles, California.
College career
Held started as a pole vaulter at Grossmont High School ...
also Inventor and Entrepreneur
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James Chico Hernandez
James "Chico" Hernandez (born April 14, 1954) is an accomplished athlete in the sport of Sambo. He is the first Sambo champion to be featured on a box of Wheaties Energy Crunch and the first Sambo wrestler to appear in CNN/SI "Faces In the Crowd" ...
Wrestler
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Hal Higdon
Hal Higdon (born June 17, 1931) is an American writer and runner known for his training plans. He is the author of 34 books, including the best-selling ''Marathon: The Ultimate Training Guide''. He has worked as a freelance writer since 1959, and ...
also Sports Writer
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Ron Hill
Ronald Hill MBE (25 September 1938 – 23 May 2021) was a British runner and clothing entrepreneur. He was the second man to break 2:10 in the marathon; he set world records at four other distances, and laid claim to the marathon world reco ...
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Jim Hines
James Ray Hines (born September 10, 1946) is a retired American track and field athlete and NFL player, who held the 100-meter world record for 15 years. In 1968, he became the first man to officially break the 10-second barrier in the 100 me ...
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Russ Hodge
Russell Arden Hodge (born September 12, 1939) is an American track and field athlete, world record holder in decathlon (1966–1967), Olympic competitor from 1964, and silver medalist from the Pan American Games (1971).
Track and field career ...
Ayanna Hutchinson
Ayanna Hutchinson (born 18 February 1978) is a track and field sprint athlete who competes internationally for Trinidad and Tobago.
1978 births
Living people
Trinidad and Tobago female sprinters
Olympic athletes for Trinidad an ...
Rıza Maksut İşman
Rıza Maksut İşman (1915 in Istanbul – 30 December 2004 in İzmir) was a Turkish athlete.
Biography
İşman started sports through cycling. He has many medals in track and field. He has trained many athletes, including Cahit Önel. He has ...
April Jace
April Jace (born April Denise Laune; May 6, 1974 – May 19, 2014) was an American masters track and field athlete who ran in sprinting competitions. She was the 2011 world champion in the women's over-35 4 × 100 meters relay.
Early life
Apri ...
Kip Janvrin
Kip Janvrin (born July 8, 1965 in Guthrie Center, Iowa) is an American former decathlete. Janvrin is a native of Panora, Iowa and is now the Co-Head Track & Field Coach at the University of Central Missouri in Warrensburg, Missouri.
College ca ...
Payton Jordan
Payton Jordan (March 19, 1917 – February 5, 2009) was the head coach of the 1968 United States Olympic track and field team, one of the most powerful track teams ever assembled, which won a record twenty-four medals, including twelve golds. ...
Al Joyner
Alfrederick Joyner (born January 19, 1960) is an American track and field coach and former athlete. He was born in East St. Louis, Illinois. He is the 1984 Olympic gold medalist in the triple jump. He was also the coach and husband of the late ...
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Gitte Karlshøj
Gitte Karlshøj (born 14 May 1959 in Lyderslev, Stevns Municipality, Stevns, Sjælland, Denmark) is a Danish long-distance runner. She ran the 3000 metres at the 1992 Summer Olympics, finishing in a non-qualifying sixth place in the qualifying rou ...
Ryszard Katus
Ryszard Katus (born March 29, 1947) is a Polish athlete, who competed mainly in the men's decathlon event during his career.
Katus was born in Boska Wola. He competed for Poland at the 1972 Summer Olympics held in Munich, Germany, where he wo ...
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Ida Keeling
Ida Olivia Keeling ( Potter, May 15, 1915 – August 25, 2021) was an American centenarian track and field athlete. Trained by her daughter Cheryl (Shelley) Keeling, herself a world record holder, Ida set Masters records in 60 meter and 100 mete ...
Centenarian
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Johnny Kelley
John Adelbert Kelley (September 6, 1907 – October 6, 2004) was an American long-distance runner who twice represented his native country at the Summer Olympics, in 1936 and 1948, and competed in the Boston Marathon over 50 times, winning in 19 ...
Roger Kingdom
Roger Kingdom (born August 26, 1962) is a former sprint hurdler, athletics coach, and strength and conditioning coach from the United States. He is currently the speed and conditioning coach for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers of the NFL.
Early l ...
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Mark Kiptoo
Mark may refer to:
Currency
* Bosnia and Herzegovina convertible mark, the currency of Bosnia and Herzegovina
* East German mark, the currency of the German Democratic Republic
* Estonian mark, the currency of Estonia between 1918 and 1927
* Fin ...
Wolfgang Knabe
Wolfgang Knabe (born 12 July 1959) is a West German triple jumper.
He finished eighth at the 1981 European Indoor Championships and competed at the 1983 World Championships without reaching the final.
His personal best jump was 17.12 metres, a ...
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Peter Koech
Peter Koech (born February 18, 1958) is a former long-distance runner from Kenya who won a silver medal in the 3,000 meters steeplechase event at the 1988 Summer Olympics. He held the world record in this event for over three years, running ...
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Mariya Konovalova
Mariya Ivanovna Konovalova (russian: Мария Ивановна Коновалова; born Mariya Pantyukhova on 14 August 1974 in Angarsk) is a Russian long-distance runner. She has represented Russia in both track running and cross countr ...
Stanisław Kowalski
Stanisław Kowalski (14 April 1910 – 5 April 2022) was a Polish supercentenarian masters athlete who, at the age of 105, became the oldest ever competing athlete in the newly formed M105 age division (ages 105–109) in sprinting, shot put a ...
Centenarian, World's Oldest Athlete
* June Krauser "Mother of Masters swimming"
* Marty Krulee
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Shaul Ladany
Shaul Paul Ladany ( he, שאול לדני; born April 2, 1936) is an Israeli Holocaust survivor, racewalker and two-time Olympian. He holds the world record in the 50-mile walk (7:23:50), and the Israeli national record in the 50-kilometer walk ...
Evelyn Lawler
Evelyn Lawler (born October 18, 1929) is a retired American track and field athlete. She competed for the United States in the 80 metres hurdles at the 1951 Pan American Games, finishing 6th. She is perhaps better known as the mother of (9 time ...
Mother of
Carl Lewis
Frederick Carlton Lewis (born July 1, 1961) is an American former track and field athlete who won nine Olympic gold medals, one Olympic silver medal, and 10 World Championships medals, including eight gold. His career spanned from 1979 to 1996, ...
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Carol Lewis
Carol LeGrant Lewis (born August 8, 1963) is an American former track and field athlete who specialized in the long jump. She is the 1983 World Championship bronze medalist, and a 4-time US Champion. Her best long jump of 7.04 meters in 1985 is ...
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Fred Lebow
Fred Lebow (June 3, 1932 – October 9, 1994), born Fischel Lebowitz, was a runner, race director, and founder of the New York City Marathon. Born in Arad, Romania, he presided over the transformation of the race from one with 55 finishers in 1970 ...
New York Marathon
The New York City Marathon (currently branded TCS New York City Marathon after its headline sponsor) is an annual marathon () that courses through the five boroughs of New York City. It is the largest marathon in the world, with 53,627 finishe ...
Gerry Lindgren
Gerald "Gerry" Paul Lindgren (born March 9, 1946) is an American track and field runner who set many long-standing high school and national records in the United States. In 1965, Lindgren and Billy Mills both broke the world record for the six-mi ...
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James Lofton
James David Lofton (born July 5, 1956) is an American former professional football player and coach. He is a former coach for the San Diego Chargers but is best known for his years in the National Football League as a wide receiver for the Gre ...
also Hall of Fame American Football Player
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Jud Logan
Judson Campbell Logan (July 19, 1959 – January 3, 2022) was an American Athletics (sport), athlete. He won a gold medal in the hammer throw at the 1987 Pan American Games in Indianapolis. Logan competed in four Summer Olympic Games, Summer Olymp ...
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Mihaela Loghin
Mihaela Loghin (born 1 June 1952) is a shot putter from Romania. She won a silver medal at the 1984 Olympics, one centimetre behind Claudia Losch, and a bronze medal at the 1986 European Indoor Championships.
After retiring from competitions ...
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Mario Longo
Mario Longo (born 21 August 1964 in Naples) is a retired Italian sprinter who specialized in the 100 metres.
Biography
His personal best 100 metres time was 10.32 seconds, his personal best 200 metres time was 21.18 seconds. Both times were ach ...
Phil McConkey
Philip Joseph McConkey (born February 24, 1957) is a former American football wide receiver who played for the New York Giants (1984–1988), Green Bay Packers (1986), Phoenix Cardinals (1989), and San Diego Chargers (1989) of the National Footba ...
American Football Player
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Anne McKenzie
Anne McKenzie (July 28, 1925 in Ceres, Cape Province, South Africa - July 23, 2014) was a South African Masters athlete pioneer, setting several world records as early as the 1960s. She continued setting records, not only on the track but in ro ...
Leland McPhie
Leland McPhie (March 10, 1914 – September 3, 2015) was an American centenarian track and field athlete. He has found success in Masters athletics competitions. He also holds the currently ratified M95 American records in the long jump and tri ...
Alain Mimoun
Alain Mimoun, born Ali Mimoun Ould Kacha (1 January 1921 – 27 June 2013), was an Algerian-born French long-distance runner who competed in track events, cross-country running and the marathon. He was the 1956 Olympic champion in the marathon ...
Martín Mondragón
Martín Mondragón (born November 11, 1953) is a retired long-distance runner from Mexico, who won the 1988 edition of the Los Angeles Marathon. Virtually unknown before the race, the 34-year-old set the course record and his personal record at 2 ...
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David Moorcroft
David Robert Moorcroft (born 10 April 1953) is a former middle-distance and long-distance runner from England, and former world record holder for 5,000 metres. His athletic career spanned the late-1970s and 1980s. He subsequently served as ...
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Boo Morcom
Albert Richmond "Boo" Morcom (May 1, 1921 – October 3, 2012) was an Americans, American track and field athlete.
Early career
He was born in Braintree, Massachusetts. While he is primarily known for his exploits in the pole vault event, he ...
Phil Mulkey
Philip Roy Mulkey (January 7, 1933 – September 17, 2022) was an American track and field athlete, primarily known for the multi-event decathlon. Mulkey was the second place American behind Rafer Johnson at the 1960 USA Outdoor Track and Fie ...
Fabiana Murer
Fabiana de Almeida Murer (born 16 March 1981) is a retired Brazilian pole vaulter. She holds the South American record in the event with an indoor best of 4.82 m and an outdoor best of 4.87 m, making her the fourth highest vaulter eve ...
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Sandra Myers
Sandra Myers (born January 9, 1961, in Little River, Kansas) is a retired 400 metres sprinter who represented Spain after switching from the United States. She became US champion at 400 metres hurdles in 1981, but received Spanish nationality in ...
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Iryna Mykhalchenko
Iryna Mykhalchenko ( uk, Ірина Михальченко; born 20 January 1972) is a Ukrainian high jumper.
Biography
Mykhalchenko competed in two Olympic Games, finishing fifth in the high jump contest at the 2004 Summer Olympics. She then fi ...
Nick Newton
Milton "Nick" Newton (born November 6, 1933 in Tarboro, North Carolina, United States – March 31, 2018 in Palm Springs, California) was the inventor of the Newton Starting Blocks. Newton blocks are considered by many to be the best in the world, ...
Inventor
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Jamie Nieto
Jamie Earl "James" Nieto (born November 2, 1976 in Seattle, Washington) is an American high jumper and actor.
His personal best jump is 2.34 (7' 8"), achieved at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens. He was the 2004 and 2012 USA Olympic Trials Cha ...
Gary Null
Gary Michael Null (born January 6, 1945) is an American talk radio host and author who advocates pseudoscientific alternative medicine and produces a line of questionable dietary supplements.
Null is hostile to evidence-based medicine and has ...
Al Oerter
Alfred Oerter Jr. (September 19, 1936 – October 1, 2007) was an American athlete and a four-time Olympic Games, Olympic Champion in the discus throw. He was the first athlete to win a gold medal in the same individual event in four consecut ...
Brian Oldfield
Brian Oldfield (June 1, 1945 – March 26, 2017) was an American athlete and personality of the 1970s and early 1980s. A standout shot putter, Oldfield was credited with making the rotational technique popular. With his "Oldfield spin," he set the ...
Competed at a June 1978 Masters Meet. Holds two Masters World Records
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Marcus O'Sullivan
Marcus O'Sullivan (born in Cork, Ireland on 22 December 1961) is an Irish retired middle-distance runner. He competed for Ireland at four Summer Olympics. After Steve Scott and John Walker, he is the third all-time by total of sub-4 minute ...
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Giuseppe Ottaviani (athlete)
Giuseppe Ottaviani (20 May 1916 – 19 July 2020) was an Italian centenarian and masters athlete, and Commander of the Italian Republic for high sporting merits.
He was the first and only centenary athlete to have made a qualifying triple jump ...
Italian
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Evy Palm
Evy Gunilla Palm (born January 31, 1942 in Lidköping, Västra Götaland) is a female athlete from Sweden, who competes in the long-distance events. She represented her native country at the 1988 Summer Olympics, finishing in 24th place in the ...
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Ladislav Pataki
Ladislav Pataki (June 20, 1946 – April 5, 2007) was an American coach, sports scientist, and masters track and field thrower. He defected from Czechoslovakia in 1985 with his wife and daughter, settling in Los Gatos, California.
Dr. Pataki se ...
Donald Pellmann
Donald Pellmann (August 12, 1915 – October 11, 2020) was an American centenarian multi world-record-setting masters athlete. He held the current M90 world record (for men aged 90 or above) in the long jump, high jump, discus throw, and indoor ...
Centenarian
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Elisabetta Perrone
Elisabetta Perrone (born 9 July 1968) is a former race walker from Italy who won eighteen medals, eight of these at senior level, at the International athletics competitions.
Biography
Elisabetta Perrone won six medals, at individual level, at th ...
Lyudmila Petrova
Lyudmila Nikolayevna Petrova (russian: Людмила Николаевна Петрова; born 7 October 1968) is a Russian long-distance runner, who represented her native country at two Summer Olympics: 1996 and 2004. She won the 2000 edition ...
Simon Poelman
Simon Roderick Poelman (born 27 May 1963, Hamilton) is a former New Zealand decathlete, who has been described as New Zealand's best ever all-round athlete. In the decathlon, his personal best of 8359 points (which is adjusted from 8366 points ...
Caroline Powell Caroline Powell may refer to:
* Caroline Powell (equestrian), New Zealand equestrian
* Caroline Powell (athlete), British masters athlete
* Caroline Powell (skier), British skier
* Caroline Amelia Powell, Irish-born American engraver and il ...
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Tatyana Pozdnyakova
Tatyana Pozdnyakova (born 4 March 1955 in Sosnovo-Ozerskoye, Buryatia, Russia) is a Ukrainian, former Soviet athlete, known for her performance in marathons. She is the current W45 Masters world record holder in the marathon. In her earlier ath ...
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Alfred Proksch
Alfred Proksch (December 11, 1908 – January 3, 2011) was an Austrian Olympic athlete and graphic designer. The son of one of the co-founders of the Wiener Sport-Club, Proksch took an active interest in both athletics and g ...
Carmelo Rado
Carmelo Rado (born 4 August 1933) is an Italian athletics competitor. He competed for his native country in the discus throw at the 1960 Olympics held in his home country, finishing in seventh place. He also competed in the 1962 European Athle ...
Lucien Rault
Lucien Rault (born 30 March 1936 in Plouguenast) is a French long-distance runner. He represented France in the 1976 Olympics at the age of 40. He had an extensive career in cross country running with his national squad at the International ...
Marian Shields Robinson
Marian Lois Robinson ( née Shields; born July 29, 1937) is the mother of Michelle Obama, former First Lady of the United States, and Craig Robinson, a basketball executive. She is also the mother-in-law of 44th U.S. President Barack Obama.
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Mother of current U.S. First Lady
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Gaston Roelants
Gaston, Baron Roelants (born 5 February 1937), is a Belgian former elite steeplechaser and cross country runner. He won the 1962 European and 1964 Olympic titles in the 3000 m steeplechase and twice broke the world record.
Biography
Roelants ...
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Orville Rogers
Orville Curtis Rogers (November 28, 1917 – November 14, 2019) was an American pilot, military veteran, and competitive runner.
Early life
Rogers was born to Stephen Alfred Rogers and Lillie Leona Johnston at home in Hubbard, Texas. The fami ...
Centenarian
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Henry Rono
Henry Rono (born 12 February 1952, in Kapsabet) is a Kenyan retired track and field athlete who specialised in various long-distance running events. Although he never competed at the Olympics, Rono is remembered as one of the most prolific coll ...
Jim Ryun
James Ronald Ryun (born April 29, 1947) is an American former Republican politician and Olympic track and field athlete, who at his peak was widely considered the world's top middle-distance runner. He won a silver medal in the 1500 m at the 1 ...
also U.S. Congressman
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Joan Benoit Samuelson
Joan Benoit Samuelson (born May 16, 1957) is an American marathon runner who was the first women's Olympic Games marathon champion, winning the gold medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. She held the fastest time for an American woma ...
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Ugo Sansonetti
Ugo Sansonetti (10 January 1919 – 14 August 2019), nicknamed Matusalesto (a pun based on the name of Matusalem and the Italian ''lesto'', "quick"), was an Italian writer and masters athlete.
Biography
He is the current world record holder in ...
Willi Sawall
Willi Alfred Sawall (born 7 November 1941) is a retired male race walker
Racewalking, or race walking, is a long-distance discipline within the sport of athletics. Although a foot race, it is different from running in that one foot must appe ...
Bob Schul
Robert Keyser "Bob" Schul (born September 28, 1937) is a former American long-distance runner. , he is the only American to have won an Olympic gold medal in the 5000 m, at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.
Early career
Schul, born and raised o ...
Helen Searle
Helen Searle (1834 - November 1884), also known under her married name of Helen Searle Pattison, was an American painter of still lifes who was stylistically associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting.
Art career
Searle was the daughte ...
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Yuriy Sedykh
ukr, Юрій Георгійович Сєдих
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Iryna Sekachova
Iryna V'iacheslavivna Sekachova ( uk, Ірина В'ячеславівна Секачова; born 21 July 1976 in Vasylkiv, Kyiv) is a Ukrainian hammer throw
The hammer throw is one of the four throwing events in regular track and field compe ...
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Vyacheslav Shabunin
Vyacheslav Vasilyevich Shabunin (russian: Вячеслав Васильевич Шабунин) (born 27 September 1969 in Kamyshlov, Sverdlovsk Oblast) is a Russian middle distance runner who specializes in the 1500 metres. After a career that t ...
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Nolan Shaheed
Nolan Shaheed (born Nolan Andrew Smith, Jr.; July 18, 1949 in Pasadena, California) is an American jazz musician, specializing in the cornet and trumpet, and a world record holding masters athlete.
Masters athletics
Shaheed has been in the mas ...
Jazz trumpeter
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George A. Sheehan
George A. Sheehan (November 5, 1918 – November 1, 1993) was an American physician, senior athlete, and author best known for his writings about the sport of running. His book, "Running & Being: The Total Experience", became a New York Times best ...
Running Writer
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Frank Shorter
Frank Charles Shorter (born October 31, 1947) is an American former long-distance runner who won the gold medal in the marathon at the 1972 Summer Olympics and the silver medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics. His Olympic success, along with the ac ...
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Zdeňka Šilhavá
Zdeňka Bartoňová-Šilhavá (born 15 June 1954 in Krnov, Czechoslovakia) is a retired female track and field athlete from the Czech Republic, who set the world record in the women's discus throw on 26 August 1984 with a distance of . That mark ...
Chuck Smead
Charles Smead (born August 4, 1951) is an American long distance runner, who made his most significant mark on the sport taking second in the Marathon at the 1975 Pan American Games in Mexico City.
Originally from Santa Paula High School in Sa ...
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Joyce Smith
Joyce Esther Smith (née Byatt, born 26 October 1937) is a British former long-distance runner. She broke the world record in the 3000 metres in 1971 and is a three-time medallist at the International/World Cross Country Championships, inclu ...
Peter Snell
Sir Peter George Snell (17 December 1938 – 12 December 2019) was a New Zealand middle-distance runner. He won three Olympic gold medals, and is the only man since 1920 to have won the 800 and 1500 metres at the same Olympics, in 1964.
Snell ...
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Jim Sorensen
Jim Sorensen (born May 10, 1967) is an American Track and Field athlete, known primarily for running middle distance races. He is the current Masters M40 world record holder at 800 metres and former Masters M40 world record holder at 1500 metres.
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Mattias Sunneborn
Mattias Sunneborn (born 27 September 1970 in Bunge, Gotland) is a Sweden, Swedish long jumper. He was an Athletics at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Men's long jump#Finals, Olympic finalist in 1996. He was the 1996 1996 European Athletics Indoor C ...
Kjell-Erik Ståhl
Kjell-Erik Bertil Ståhl (born 17 February 1946 in Killeberg, Skåne) is a retired long-distance runner from Sweden. He represented his native country twice at the Summer Olympics (1980 and 1984) in the men's marathon, finishing in 19th place ...
* Brian Stanton (athlete), Brian Stanton
* Rudolf Steiner (athlete), Rudolf Steiner
* Gary Stenlund
* Dwight Stones
* Ed Stotsenberg Philanthropist
* Larry Stuart (athlete), Larry Stuart
* Jüri Tamm
* Tatyana Ter-Mesrobyan
* Valbjörn Þorláksson
* Domingo Tibaduiza
* Milan Tiff
* Felicia Ţilea-Moldovan
* Bogdan Tudor
* Derek Turnbull
* Gary Tuttle
* Teresa Vaill
* Martti Vainio
* Venelina Veneva-Mateeva
* Sandro Viana
* Sean Wade
* Bill Wambach
* Cornelius Warmerdam, Cornelius "Dutch" Warmerdam
* Sylvia Weiner
* Priscilla Welch
* Georg Werthner
* Anthony Whiteman
* Ed Whitlock
* Ron Whitney
* John Whittemore World's Oldest Athlete
* Novlene Williams-Mills
* Gerhard Windolf
* Ruth Wysocki
* Iryna Yatchenko
* Dimitrion Yordanidis
* :de:Emmerich Zensch, Emmerich Zensch
Open Athletes
These are athletes who have not competed as a Masters athlete, but by age qualify for and hold Masters records set in elite open level competition.
* Yamilé Aldama Holds Masters W35 and W40 Record achieved as an Open competitor WMA World Records
* Virgilijus Alekna Holds Masters M35 Record achieved as an Open competitor WMA World Records
* Igor Astapkovich has not competed in a Masters event but holds two Masters World Records
* Inha Babakova Holds Masters W35 Record achieved as an Open competitor
* Abdellah Béhar Holds Masters M35 Record achieved as an Open competitor
* Mike Boit Holds Masters M35 Record achieved as an Open competitor
* Sabine Braun Holds Masters W35 Record achieved as an Open competitor
* Chris Brown (athlete), Chris Brown Holds Masters M35 Record achieved as an Open competitor
* Amber Campbell Holds Masters W35 Record achieved as an Open competitor
* Linford Christie Holds Masters M35 Record achieved as an Open competitor
* Jearl Miles Clark Holds Masters W35 Record achieved as an Open competitor
* Kim Collins Holds pending Masters M35 Record achieved as an Open competitor
* Maurizio Damilano Holds Masters M35 Record achieved as an Open competitor WMA World Records
* Yohann Diniz Has multiple pending Masters records
* Troy Douglas has not competed in a Masters event but holds two Masters World Records
* Joanne Dow Holds Masters W40 and W45 Records achieved as an Open competitor
* Stacy Dragila Holds Masters W35 Record achieved as an Open competitor
* Heike Drechsler Holds Masters W35 Record achieved as an Open competitor
* Jonathan Edwards (triple jumper), Jonathan Edwards Holds Masters M35 Record achieved as an Open competitor
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Ludmila Engquist
Ludmila Viktorovna Engquist (née Leonova (russian: Людмила Викторовна Нарожиленко-Леонова). formerly Narozhilenko; born 21 April 1964) is a Russian-Swedish former athlete, who competed mainly in the 100 metres ...
Holds Masters W35 Record achieved as an Open competitor
* Haile Gebrselassie Holds Masters M35 Record achieved as an Open competitor
* Lyubov Gurina Holds Masters W35 Record achieved as an Open competitor
* Alvin Harrison Holds a pending Masters M35 Record achieved as an Open competitor
* Jeff Hartwig Holds Masters M35 Record achieved as an Open competitor
* Colin Jackson Held Masters M35 Record achieved as an Open competitor
* Allen Johnson Holds Masters M35 Record achieved as an Open competitor, set while winning 2006 IAAF World Cup, IAAF World Cup
* Meb Keflezighi American M40 Marathon record holder, ran in Athletics at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's marathon, 2016 Olympics at age 41
* Mary Jepkosgei Keitany Pending marathon record set as open competitor
* Robert Korzeniowski Holds Masters M35 Record achieved as an Open competitor
* Inessa Kravets Holds Masters W35 Record achieved as an Open competitor
* Olga Kuzenkova Holds Masters W35 Record achieved as an Open competitor
* A. G. Kruger Holds Masters M35 Record in Throws Pentathlon as Open competitor
* Bernard Lagat Holds multiple Masters M35 Records achieved as an Open competitor
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Carl Lewis
Frederick Carlton Lewis (born July 1, 1961) is an American former track and field athlete who won nine Olympic gold medals, one Olympic silver medal, and 10 World Championships medals, including eight gold. His career spanned from 1979 to 1996, ...
Holds Masters M35 Record achieved as an Open competitor
* Lev Lobodin Holds Masters M35 Record achieved as an Open competitor
* Carlos Lopes Holds Masters M35 Record achieved as an Open competitor
* Edith Masai Holds Masters W35 Record achieved as an Open competitor
* Josef Matoušek (athlete), Josef Matoušek Set M35 Javelin record en route to 1960 Olympics
* Danny McFarlane Holds Masters M35 Record achieved as an Open competitor
* Faina Melnik Holds Masters W35 Record achieved as an Open competitor
* Irina Mikitenko Holds Masters M35 Record achieved as an Open competitor
* Kathryn Mitchell Holds Masters W35 Record achieved as an Open competitor
* Steffi Nerius Held Masters W35 Record achieved as an Open competitor
* Merlene Ottey has not competed in a Masters event but holds several Masters World Records
* Björn Otto Holds Masters W35 Record achieved as an Open competitor
* Joanne Pavey Holds multiple Masters Records achieved as an Open competitor
* Larisa Peleshenko Holds Masters W35 Record achieved as an Open competitor
* Aurelia Pentón Holds Masters W35 Record achieved as an Open competitor
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Elisabetta Perrone
Elisabetta Perrone (born 9 July 1968) is a former race walker from Italy who won eighteen medals, eight of these at senior level, at the International athletics competitions.
Biography
Elisabetta Perrone won six medals, at individual level, at th ...
Holds Masters W35 Record achieved as an Open competitor WMA World Records
* Yekaterina Podkopayeva has not competed in a Masters event but holds several Masters World Records
* Maricica Puică has not competed in a Masters event but holds several Masters World Records
* Félix Sánchez (hurdler), Félix Sánchez ran a superior time to M35 World record in the 2013 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 400 metres hurdles, World Championships
* Kerry Saxby-Junna Holds Masters W35 Record achieved as an Open competitor
* Marina Stepanova Holds Masters W35 Record achieved as an Open competitor
* Jenn Suhr Holds Masters W35 Record achieved as an Open competitor
* William Tanui Ran a 1500m superior to the M35 record in Open competition
* Dragutin Topic Holds Masters M35 Record achieved as an Open competitor
* Kevin Toth Threw shot put further than M35 World Record just before being banned for doping
* Simon Vroemen Holds Masters M35 Record achieved as an Open competitor
* Ibrahima Wade Holds Masters M35 Record achieved as an Open competitor
* John Walker (athlete), John Walker Holds Masters M35 Record achieved as an Open competitor
* Jan Železný has not competed in a Masters event but holds two Masters World Records