This is a list of notable people who have participated in Masters Athletics. Most have achieved their primary notoriety through athletic endeavors except when noted.

• Gabriela Andersen-Schiess 
• Henry Andrade
  Henry Andrade
  Henry Manuel Andrade is an American hurdler. One of the best hurdlers in the United States during the 1980s and early 1990s, after years of frustration in the American Olympic Trials, he achieved his opportunity to compete in the Olympics by obtaining dual citizenship through his parent's...
  
   
• Lee Baca
  Lee Baca
  Leroy David "Lee" Baca is the Sheriff of Los Angeles County, California. Baca holds a Doctorate of Public Administration from the University of Southern California....
  
    Los Angeles County Sheriff
• Willie Banks
  Willie Banks
  William Augustus Banks III 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....
  
   
• James Barrineau
  James Barrineau
  James Archibald "Jim" Barrineau, Jr. is an American high jumper.While competing for the University of Georgia he won the Southeastern Conference titles in 1976 and 1977. He was a four-time All American and competed in the World University Games...
  
   
• Dieter Baumann
  Dieter Baumann
  Dieter Baumann is a former German athlete and winner of 5000 m at the 1992 Summer Olympics.Born in Blaustein, Germany , Dieter Baumann was one of the few non-African athletes who were able to seriously challenge the African dominance of middle-distance running during the 1990s...
  
   
• Laurie Binder
  Laurie Binder
  Laurie Binder is an American long distance runner. She is a former American record holder in the Marathon, 2:35:08 set in 1982...
  
   
• Chris Black
  Chris Black (athlete)
  Christopher Francis Black is a retired Scottish hammer thrower, who represented Great Britain at two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1976 . His best Olympic result was finishing in seventh place at the 1976 Summer Olympics, throwing 73.18 metres.-Achievements:-References:*...
  
   
• Peter Blank
  Peter Blank
  Peter Blank is a German javelin thrower. In his earlier career he was a decathlete, where he set the world record for longest javelin throw in a decathlon....
  
   
• Charlie Booth
  Charlie Booth
  Charlie Booth was an Australian athlete.In the 1930s, he was a champion runner who participated in several Stawell Gifts, until a victory in 1939. He was also a fitter and turner apprentice...
  
    inventor of Starting Blocks
• Mary Bowermaster
  Mary Bowermaster
  Mary L. Bowermaster was a Nurse's aide for schools in Butler County, Ohio until a breast cancer diagnosis in 1979...
  
   
• Roald Bradstock
  Roald Bradstock
  Arne Roald Bradstock is an English athlete who competed in the men's javelin throw event during his career. He twice represented Great Britain at the Summer Olympics: 1984 and 1988. In 1992 he was an alternate for the GB Olympic Team and in 1996 was an alternate for USA Olympic team...
  
   
• Norman Bright
  Norman Bright
  Norman "Norm" Bright was an American long distance runner, mountaineer, and teacher. Bright once held the American record in the two-mile run.-Biography:...
  
   
• Debbie Brill
  Debbie Brill
  Debbie Brill OC is a Canadian high jump athlete who was the first North American woman to clear 6 feet, at age 16. Her unique reverse jumping style was called the "Brill Bend"...
  
   
• Benny Brown 
• Arto Bryggare
  Arto Bryggare
  Arto Kalervo Bryggare is a former Finnish 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 personal best time 13,35, made during trials in 1984 Los Angeles Games, is still the record time in...
  
   
• Zola Budd
  Zola Budd
  Zola Pieterse, better known by her maiden name of Zola Budd , is a former Olympic track and field competitor who, in less than three years, twice broke the world record in the women's 5000 metres and twice was the women's winner at the World Cross Country Championships...
  
   
• Ed Burke
  Edward Burke (athlete)
  Edward Andrew Burke was an American hammer thrower, especially famous for carrying the flag of the United States at the Olympics in Los Angeles 1984. He was born in Ukiah, California. His best result at the Olympics was the 7th place in the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.He also threw in the 1968...
  
   
• Rich Busa
  Rich Busa
  Richard Busa is a amateur runner from Marlborough, Massachusetts who has run in over 70 Marathons and 61 Ultra Marathons. He ran the Vermont 100, which is 100 miles nonstop, at age 72, becoming the oldest person to complete the race....
  
   
• Tom Byers
  Tom Byers (athlete)
  Thomas Joseph Byers, Jr. was a professional distance runner and current businessman. He was a runner at The Ohio State University in the 1970s and still holds the outdoor OSU distance record in the 1500m . He held the mile record until Jeff See broke it on on June 2, 2007. During his time at...
  
   
• Todd Christensen
  Todd Christensen
  Todd Jay Christensen is a former professional American football player and a current sports broadcaster for the MountainWest Sports Network.-Early life:...
  
    American Football
• Eamonn Coghlan
  Eamonn Coghlan
  Eamonn Christopher Coghlan is an Irish Senator and former athlete, who specialised in middle distance track events and the 5000 metres...
  
   
• Harold Connolly
  Harold Vincent Connolly
  Harold Vincent "Hal" Connolly was an American athlete and hammer thrower from Somerville, Massachusetts. He won a gold medal in the hammer throw at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne. During the course of his career, Connolly became the first American to throw more than 200 feet...
  
   
• Ted Corbitt
  Ted Corbitt
  Ted Corbitt was an American long-distance runner and an official of running organizations. Corbitt is often called "the father of long distance running." He was an ultramarathon pioneer, helping to revive interest in the sport in the United States in the 1960s and 70s...
  
   
• Bill Cosby
  Bill Cosby
  William Henry "Bill" Cosby, Jr. is an American comedian, actor, author, television producer, educator, musician and activist. A veteran stand-up performer, he got his start at various clubs, then landed a starring role in the 1960s action show, I Spy. He later starred in his own series, the...
  
    Comedian
• Alan Cranston
  Alan Cranston
  Alan MacGregor Cranston was an American journalist and Democratic Senator from California.-Education:Cranston earned his high school diploma from the old Mountain View High School, where among other things, he was a track star...
  
    U.S. Senator
• Josh Culbreath
  Josh Culbreath
  Joshua Culbreath 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 years, and Olympic bronze medal winner in 1956, while he was serving in the U.S...
  
   
• Gerry Davidson
  Gerry Davidson
  Gerry Davidson was an American long distance runner from Fallbrook, California. She is the current world record holder in the W85 Mile run...
  
   
• Mary Decker-Slaney 
• Colleen De Reuck
  Colleen De Reuck
  Colleen S. De Reuck is a long-distance runner from South Africa, who became an American citizen on December 11, 2000...
  
   
• Grace-Ann Dinkins
  Grace-Ann Dinkins
  Grace-Ann Dinkins 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
• Rod Dixon
  Rod Dixon
  Rodney Phillip "Rod" Dixon is a former New Zealand middle distance runner. He won the bronze medal over 1500 metres at the 1972 Olympics in Munich, and in 1983 won the prestigious New York City Marathon.-Biography:...
  
   
• Anthony Dorsett
  Anthony Dorsett
  Anthony Drew Dorsett, Jr. is an American football safety who is currently a free agent. He was drafted by the Houston Oilers in the sixth round of the 1996 NFL Draft. He played college football at Pittsburgh....
  
    American Football
• Charles Dumas
  Charles Dumas
  Charles Everett Dumas was an American high jumper, the 1956 Olympic champion, and the first person to clear 7 ft....
  
   
• Andrés Espinosa
  Andrés Espinosa
  Andrés Espinosa Pérez is a retired Mexican long-distance runner who specialized in marathon races....
  
   
• Saskia Estupinan  Public Health Doctor
• Earl Fee
  Earl Fee
  Earl Fee is a Canadian track and field athlete. 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 known as CANDU. After a 33 year hiatus from competitive athletics, he joined his...
  
   
• Dick Fosbury
  Dick Fosbury
  Richard Douglas "Dick" Fosbury is one of the most influential athletes in the history of track and field. He completely revolutionized the high jump event, inventing a unique "back-first" technique, now known as the Fosbury Flop, adopted by almost all high jumpers today. His method was to sprint...
  
   
• Jack Foster
  Jack Foster
  John Charles Foster was a former long-distance runner born in Liverpool, England. He represented New Zealand in the men's marathon at two Summer Olympics of Munich, West Germany and Montreal, Canada...
  
   
• Gabre Gabric
  Gabre Gabric-Calvesi
  Ljubica "Gabre" Gabric-Calvesi is an Italian track and field athlete who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics and in the 1948 Summer Olympics. Her best discus throw is 43.35m .-Biography:...
  
   
• Tom Gage
  Tom Gage (athlete)
  Thomas Lewis "Tom" Gage was an American Hammer Thrower from Billings, Montana. During the late 1960s to the early 1970s he was in the top 10 among American hammer throwers for 10 years including achieving number 1 in 1972...
  
   
• Willie Gault
  Willie Gault
  Willie James Gault is a former American football wide receiver and Olympic athlete. Gault played in the National Football League for 11 seasons for the Chicago Bears and Los Angeles Raiders. He was a member of the Bears team that won Super Bowl XX, and was also a member of the U.S. Olympic team...
  
    also American Football Player
• Miki Gorman
  Miki Gorman
  Miki Suwa Gorman was one of America's foremost women's marathoners during the mid 1970s. Gorman is the only woman to win both the Boston and New York City marathons twice, and one of only two woman runners to win both marathons in the same year.-Biography:Gorman, who grew up in Japan's Fukushima...
  
   
• Dalton Grant
  Dalton Grant
  Dalton Grant is a British high jumper, who has won a total number of four national titles for Great Britain in the men's high jump event. His personal best jump is 2.36 metres, achieved at the 1991 World Championships in Tokyo. He has a personal indoor best of 2.37 metres...
  
   
• Kozo Haraguchi
  Kozo Haraguchi
  was a track and field athlete and former World Masters Athletics record holder in the 100 m sprint for men aged 90–94 as well as the former record holder for men aged 95–100...
  
   
• Eddie Hart 
• Alisa Harvey-Hill
  Alisa Hill
  Alisa Harvey is a female middle distance runner from the United States. Hill set her personal best in the women's 1,500 metres 4:08.32 on June 26, 1992 at the United States Olympic Trials in New Orleans and in the 800 metres 1:59.72 in 1995. She was ranked in the U.S...
  
   
• Rex Harvey
  Rex Harvey
  Rex J. Harvey is an American decathlete. He has designed and holds patents of several nozzles for aircraft engines. Also, he helped design several nuclear reactor power plants. Harvey is a native of Redfield, Iowa and currently resides in Mentor, Ohio.Rex J. Harvey is an American ...
  
    also Official and Administrator
• Robert Hecker
  Robert Hecker
  Robert Hecker , is the lead guitarist of the current 2006-2011 line-up of Redd Kross.Hecker was born in Hermosa Beach, California. He played lead guitar and sang with Redd Kross from 1984 to 1991, in addition to occasional on-stage reunions throughout the 1990s...
  
    Musician
• Bud Held
  Bud Held
  Franklin Wesley Held is an American athlete who competed primarily in the javelin.-College career:...
  
    also Inventor and Entrepreneur
• James Chico Hernandez
  James Chico Hernandez
  James "Chico" Hernandez is an accomplished athlete in the sport of Sambo and a seven-time member of the Team USA National Team.-Early years:...
  
    Wrestler
• Hal Higdon
  Hal Higdon
  Hal Higdon is an American writer and runner. He has contributed to Runner's World magazine longer than any other writer. He is the author of 34 books, including the best-selling Marathon: The Ultimate Training Guide...
  
    also Sports Writer
• Ron Hill
  Ron Hill
  Ronald "Ron" Hill, MBE, BSc, PhD , is a noted runner and founder of Ron Hill and Hilly Clothing Company. Hill was born in Accrington, Lancashire, England. He was the second man to break 2:10 in the marathon; he set world records at four other distances, but never laid claim to the marathon world...
  
   
• Rıza Maksut İşman
  Riza Maksut Isman
  Rıza Maksut İşman was a Turkish athlete . He started sports through cycling. He has many medals in track and field. He has trained many athletes, including Cahit Önel...
  
   
• Regina Jacobs
  Regina Jacobs
  Regina Jacobs is an American former middle distance runner from Los Angeles. After graduating from Stanford University she represented the USA in three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1988 in Seoul, South Korea, before ending her career in disgrace after a positive drug test.Jacobs took...
  
   
• Kip Janvrin
  Kip Janvrin
  Kip Janvrin is a former American decathlete. Janvrin is a native of Panora, Iowa and is currently the Co-Head Track & Field Coach at the University of Central Missouri in Warrensburg, Missouri.-College career:...
  
   
• Erwin Jaskulski
  Erwin Jaskulski
  Erwin Jaskulski was a Ukrainian-American track athlete. Born in Chernivtsi, he was a Honolulu resident from 1954 until his death....
  
    Centenarian
• Billy Johnson  American Football Player
• Tebbs Lloyd Johnson 
• Payton Jordan
  Payton Jordan
  Payton Jordan 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. He was born in Whittier, California...
  
   
• Regina Joyce
  Regina Joyce
  Regina Joyce is a retired female long-distance runner originally from Ireland. She competed for her native country at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California. There she ended up in 23rd place in the women's marathon...
  
    Olympian for
• Al Joyner
  Al Joyner
  Alfredrick Alphonzo Joyner is an American athlete, who was Olympic gold medalist in the triple jump.Joyner was born in East St. Louis, Illinois. He was married to the late Florence Griffith-Joyner, a multiple Olympic medal-winning sprinter; their daughter is Mary Ruth Joyner. His sister Jackie...
  
   
• Gitte Karlshøj‎ 
• Ryszard Katus
  Ryszard Katus
  Ryszard Katus is a Polish athlete, who competed mainly in the men's decathlon event during his career....
  
   
• Johnny Kelley
  Johnny Kelley
  John Adelbert "Johnny" Kelley was an American long-distance runner who twice represented his native country at the Summer Olympics, in 1936 and 1948....
  
   
• Patrick C. Kennell
  Patrick C. Kennell
  Patrick C. Kennell is Director of the Center for Intensive English Studies at Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida. CIES was founded by his predecessor, Frederick L. Jenks, in 1979....
  
    Academic
• John Keston
  John Keston
  John Keston is an English-born actor and singer, and a world-record-holding runner.-Artist:...
  
    British Actor
• James King
  James King (athlete)
  James King is an American hurdler. In 1975 he won the Pan American Games in the 400 Hurdles. He was a top level performer for many years also competing in the United States Olympic Trials in 1972, 1976, 1980, and 1984...
  
   
• Roger Kingdom
  Roger Kingdom
  Roger Kingdom is a former sprint hurdler from the United States.Born in Vienna, Georgia, an athlete of note Roger excelled at the high jump and discus in his formative years as well as being a noteworthy American football player...
  
   
• Herb Kirk
  Herb Kirk
  Herb Kirk was an American centenarian. Many of his most accomplishments came well after his retirement....
  
    World's oldest runner
• Wolfgang Knabe
  Wolfgang Knabe
  Wolfgang Knabe is a retired West German triple jumper.He finished eighth at the 1981 European Indoor Championships.His personal best jump was 17.12 metres, achieved in September 1988 in Düsseldorf...
  
   
• Peter Koech
  Peter Koech
  Peter Koech 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 8:05.35 in 1989...
  
   
• Marty Krulee
  Marty Krulee
  Marty Krulee , is an American "World Class" Track and Field athlete, primarily known for running sprint races. While never achieving outstanding results, he is best known for an extended career in International competition. While the 100 metres was his primary outdoor event, decades after his...
  
   
• Ron Laird
  Ron Laird
  Ronald Owen Laird was a race walker from the United States, who represented his native country at four Summer Olympics, starting in 1960. His best finish was the 19th place in the men's 50 km walk at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Italy. He won the 20 km event at the 1967 Pan...
  
   
• Francie Larrieu-Smith
  Francie Larrieu-Smith
  Francis Ann "Francie" Larrieu Smith was an American track and field athlete, flagbearer at the Barcelona 1992 for the United States of America. Larrieu-Smith was the first female American athlete to make five Olympic teams, a feat equaled in 2008 by swimmer Dara Torres.Since 1999 she is cross...
  
   
• Fred Lebow
  Fred Lebow
  Fred Lebow , who was born Fischel Lebowitz, was an avid runner 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 to one of the largest marathons in the world with over 43,660 finishers in 2009...
  
    New York Marathon event director
• Gerry Lindgren
  Gerry Lindgren
  Gerald Paul Lindgren is an American track and field runner who is widely recognized as having been the best high school long distance runner in the United States at the time....
  
   
• James Lofton
  James Lofton
  James David Lofton is a former American football player and coach. He is a former American football coach for the San Diego Chargers but is best known for his years in the National Football League as a wide receiver for the Green Bay Packers , Los Angeles Raiders , the Buffalo Bills...
  
    also Hall of Fame American Football Player
• Jud Logan
  Jud Logan
  Judson Campbell Logan is a former American athlete who won a gold medal in the hammer throw at the 1987 Pan American Games in Indianapolis. He competed in four Summer Olympics, starting in 1984...
  
   
• Mike Manley http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YysHj9iz2M Millrose Masters Mile 1988
• Pat Manson
  Pat Manson
  Pat Manson is a retired American pole vaulter, best known for winning three gold medals at the Pan American Games in 1991, 1995 and 1999. He also finished sixth at the 1997 World Championships in Athletics in Athens. His personal best was 5.85 meters, achieved in September 1994 in...
  
   
• José Marín
  José Marín
  José Marín is a retired Spanish race walker.-Achievements:-External links:*...
  
   
• Peter Marsh  Academic, Sociologist
• John Martel
  John Martel
  This article is about John Martel the attorney. For the pirate captain, see John Martel .John Martel is an American lawyer and novelist....
  
    Lawyer and Novelist
• Bill McChesney
  Bill McChesney (athlete)
  Bill McChesney, Jr. was an American long-distance runner from Eugene, Oregon.He graduated from South Eugene High School and earned All-American honors in cross-country and track and field while attending the University of Oregon. He qualified for the 1980 U.S. Olympic team in the 5,000 meters...
  
   
• Phil McConkey
  Phil McConkey
  Philip Joseph McConkey attended Canisius High School where he played wide receiver for the varsity football team and graduated in the class of 1975, is a former American football wide receiver who played for the New York Giants , Green Bay Packers , Phoenix Cardinals , and San Diego Chargers of...
  
    American Football Player
• Delano Meriwether
  Delano Meriwether
  Wilhelm Delano Meriwether is an American physician and a former track and field athlete...
  
    also Physician
• Martín Mondragón
  Martín Mondragón
  Martín Mondragón 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 2:10:19 after a battle with Mark Plaatjes, which positioned the L.A...
  
   
• David Moorcroft
  David Moorcroft
  David Robert Moorcroft 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 the Chief Executive of UK Athletics from 1997 to 2007. He was awarded an MBE in...
  
   
• Boo Morcom
  Boo Morcom
  Albert Richmond "Boo" Morcom is a retired American track and field athlete. He was born in the state of Massachusetts. While he is primarily known for his exploits in the pole vault event, he has demonstrated versatility in other events. At the age of 19 he was the best pole vaulter in the...
  
   
• Sylvia Mosqueda
  Sylvia Mosqueda
  Sylvia Mosqueda is an American long distance runner notable for hard front running over an extended career at an elite level.-Early Success:...
  
   
• Sandra Myers
  Sandra Myers
  Sandra Myers is a retired 400 metres sprinter who represented Spain after switching from the United States. She became US champion in 400 metres in 1981, but received Spanish nationality in 1987 and competed for Spain since...
  
   
• Larry Myricks
  Larry Myricks
  Larry Myricks was an American athlete, who mainly competed in the men's long jump event.A durable jumper, Myricks first broke onto the track scene in 1976. While competing for Mississippi College he was the NCAA Champion, in the long jump. He followed that up with a second place at U. S...
  
   
• Nick Newton
  Nick Newton
  Milton "Nick" Newton is the inventor of the Newton Starting Blocks. Newton blocks are considered by many to be the best in the world, used at many major track meets like the Mt...
  
    Inventor
• Gary Null
  Gary Null
  Gary Michael Null is an American talk radio host and author on alternative and complementary medicine and nutrition. On his talk radio show and in his books and self-produced movies, Null has criticized the medical community, promoted a range of alternative cancer treatments and dietary...
  
    Author/Pundit
• Nadine O'Connor
  Nadine O'Connor
  Nadine O'Connor is a grandmother, retired mathematics teacher and a world record setting, hall of fame Masters Track and Field athlete. While she specializes in the pole vault, due to her athletic training, she also holds the World Masters Athletics world records in the 100 metres, 200 metres,...
  
   
• Al Oerter
  Al Oerter
  Alfred Adolf Oerter, Jr. was an American athlete, and a four-time Olympic Champion in the discus throw....
  
   
• Marcus O'Sullivan
  Marcus O'Sullivan
  Marcus O'Sullivan is a retired Irish middle distance runner. Although he wasn't planning to go to any of Ireland's universities, O'Sullivan's running encouraged him to go to Villanova University at 19...
  
   
• Evy Palm
  Evy Palm
  Evy Gunilla Palm is a former female athlete from Sweden, who competed in the long-distance events. She represented her native country at the 1988 Summer Olympics, finishing in 24th place in the women's marathon...
  
   
• Ladislav Pataki
  Ladislav Pataki
  Ladislav Pataki 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...
  
   
• Lyudmila Petrova
  Lyudmila Petrova
  Lyudmila Nikolayevna Petrova is a Russian long-distance runner, who represented her native country at two Summer Olympics: 1996 and 2004. She won the 2000 edition of the New York City Marathon....
  
   
• Dmitry Pietrman
  Dmitry Pietrman
  Dmitry Piterman is an Ukrainian-American businessman.-Early years:Piterman was born in Odessa, Ukraine, Soviet Union. At the age of 12, his family emigrated to the United States, settling in California, where he attended college at Berkeley, excelling in sports - namely triple jump, later narrowly...
  
    Futbol/Soccer club owner
• Simon Poelman
  Simon Poelman
  Simon Poelman is a former New Zealand decathlete, who has been described as New Zealand's best ever all-round athlete. His personal best of 8359 points is still a New Zealand national record. This was set at the national athletics championships in Christchurch 1987...
  
   
• Valbjörn Þorláksson
  Valbjörn Þorláksson
  Valbjörn Thorlaksson was an Icelandic track and field athlete who competed in the decathlon and pole vault in the 1960, 1964, and 1968 Summer Olympic Games....
  
   
• Alfred Proksch
  Alfred Proksch
  Alfred Proksch 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 graphic design from an early age...
  
   
• Philip Rabinowitz  Centenarian
• Philipa Raschker
  Philipa Raschker
  Eileen Philippa "Phil" Raschker has been called the greatest female athlete in the world over the age of 60, and some say she may be the greatest female athlete of all time....
  
   
• Pam Reed
  Pam Reed
  Pam Reed is an ultrarunner who resides in Tucson, Arizona and Jackson, Wyoming. She is the race director for the Tucson Marathon....
  
   
• Marian Shields Robinson  Mother of current U.S. First Lady
• Bill Rodgers
  Bill Rodgers (athlete)
  William "Bill" Henry Rodgers is an American runner and former American record holder in the marathon who is best known for his victories in the Boston Marathon and the New York City Marathon in the late 1970s...
  
   
• Gaston Roelants
  Gaston Roelants
  Gaston, Baron Roelants was a top steeplechaser in the early 1960s and a great cross-country runner. At the steeplechase he won the 1962 European and 1964 Olympic titles as well as setting two world records, 8 minutes 29.6 seconds in 1963 and 8 minutes 26.4 seconds in 1965.Roelants was born in...
  
   
• Henry Rono
  Henry Rono
  Henry Rono is a Kenyan former athlete.-Biography:Rono was born in Nandi Hills, Kenya, into the Nandi tribe. He started running while at primary school. Starting in 1976 he attended the Washington State University, along with his compatriot Samson Kimobwa, who broke the 10,000 meter world record in...
  
   
• Nick Rose
  Nick Rose
  Nicholas Henry Rose is a former British international track and field athlete. He competed in a variety of middle distance and long distance track events. He is the current European record holder in the 10 kilometre road race, and British record holder in the 4×1 mile relay event. He...
  
   
• Jim Ryun
  Jim Ryun
  James Ronald Ryun is an American former track athlete and politician, who was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1996 to 2007, representing the 2nd District in Kansas. In the 2006 election, Ryun was defeated by Democratic challenger Nancy Boyda...
  
    also U.S. Congressman
• Joan Benoit Samuelson 
• Willi Sawall
  Willi Sawall
  Willi Alfred Sawall is a retired male race walker from Australia. He set his personal best in the men's 50 km in 1980. Sawall is a seven-time national champion in race walking.-Achievements:-References:*...
  
   
• Bob Schul
  Bob Schul
  Bob Schul is a former American long distance runner. , he is the only American to have won the Olympic gold medal in the 5000 m, at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.-Early career:...
  
   
• Steve Scott
  Steve Scott
  Steve Scott is an American male athlete who is one of the greatest milers in American history. The silver medalist in the 1,500 meters at the inaugural IAAF World Outdoor Championships at Helsinki in 1983, Scott owns the U.S. indoor record in the 2000 meters...
  
   
• Yuriy Sedykh
  Yuriy Sedykh
  Yuriy Georgiyevich Sedykh is a retired Soviet/Ukrainian athlete who represented the USSR, specialising in the hammer throw....
  
   
• George A. Sheehan
  George A. Sheehan
  Dr. George A. Sheehan was born in Brooklyn, New York. He is best known for his books and writings about the sport of running. His book, "Running & Being: The Total Experience," became a New York Times best seller. He was a track star in college, and later became a cardiologist like his father...
  
    Running Writer
• Frank Shorter
  Frank Shorter
  Frank Charles Shorter is a former American long-distance runner who won the gold medal in the marathon at the 1972 Summer Olympics. His victory is credited with igniting the running boom in the United States of the 1970s....
  
   
• Zdeňka Šilhavá
  Zdenka Šilhavá
  Zdeňka Bartoňová-Šilhavá 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 74.56 metres...
  
   
• Jay Silvester
  Jay Silvester
  Jay Silvester was an American athlete who mainly competed in the discus throw. He competed for the United States in the men's discus throw at the 1972 Summer Olympics held in Munich, Germany, where he won the silver medal.Silvester was one of the U.S.'s most consistent discus throwers through the...
  
   
• Chuck Smead
  Chuck Smead
  Charles "Chuck" Smead 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....
  
   
• Joyce Smith
  Joyce Smith
  Joyce Esther Smith is a British former long distance runner.Smith was born in Stoke Newington, London, and began running competitively in the 1950s, at which time the longest distance for women in international competitions was 800 metres. She won the English National Crosscountry Championship in...
  
   
• Marjorie Parker Smith  Dancer/Figure Skater
• Peter Snell
  Peter Snell
  Sir Peter George Snell, KNZM, MBE is a former New Zealand athlete, now resident in Texas, United States. He had one of the shortest careers of world famous international sportsmen, yet achieved so much that he was voted New Zealand’s "Sports Champion of the Century"...
  
   
• Paul Spangler
  Paul Spangler
  Dr. Paul E. Spangler was a retired U.S. Navy surgeon, who took up the sport of running at the age of 67.-Early life:...
  
   
• Walt Stack
  Walt Stack
  Walt Stack was a hod carrier by trade and an icon of the San Francisco, California, running community by popular acclaim. Stack ran approximately in his lifetime...
  
   
• Kjell-Erik Ståhl
  Kjell-Erik Ståhl
  Kjell-Erik Bertil Ståhl is a retired long-distance runner from Sweden. He represented his native country twice at the Summer Olympics in the men's marathon, finishing in 19th place in Moscow. Ståhl twice won the Stockholm Marathon. He holds the Swedish record with 2:10:38 set in...
  
   
• Dwight Stones
  Dwight Stones
  Dwight Edwin Stones 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...
  
   
• Ed Stotsenberg
  Ed Stotsenberg
  Edward G. Stotsenberg was an American philanthropist. Originally the accountant for movie star Mary Pickford during the last 20 years of her life, Stotsenberg was one of the trustees of Mary Pickford Foundation established in the 1970s at the wishes of the star.Santa Monica College benefitted from...
  
    Philanthropist
• Jüri Tamm
  Jüri Tamm
  Jüri Tamm is a former Estonian hammer thrower. Representing USSR, he won a bronze medal in the 1980 and 1988 Summer Olympics and a silver medal at the 1987 World Championships in Athletics.-Athletic career:...
  
   
• Tatyana Ter-Mesrobyan
  Tatyana Ter-Mesrobyan
  Tatyana Ter-Mesrobyan is a Russian long jumper. Her personal best is 7.06 metres, achieved in May 2002 in St-Peterburg.-Achievements:-External links:...
  
   
• Valbjörn Þorláksson
  Valbjörn Þorláksson
  Valbjörn Thorlaksson was an Icelandic track and field athlete who competed in the decathlon and pole vault in the 1960, 1964, and 1968 Summer Olympic Games....
  
   
• Domingo Tibaduiza
  Domingo Tibaduiza
  Domingo Tibaduiza Reyes is a former long-distance runner from Gameza, Colombia, who represented his native country at four consecutive Summer Olympics: in the 10,000 metres , the 5,000 metres and in the men's marathon...
  
   
• Milan Tiff
  Milan Tiff
  Milan Tiff is primarily known for his Triple Jumping, but his skills pass through several arenas. He was the Bronze medalist in the 1975 Pan Am Games. At the Pan Am Games, his name shows the additional name of Abdul Rahman, and in the 1976 Olympic Trials he used the name Caleb Abdul Rahman but...
  
   
• Felicia Ţilea-Moldovan
  Felicia Tilea-Moldovan
  Felicia Ţilea-Moldovan is a Romanian javelin thrower. She is a four-time Olympian, and winner of the gold medal at the 1995 Summer Universiade in Japan. Her personal best throw is 63.89 metres....
  
   
• Bogdan Tudor
  Bogdan Tudor
  Bogdan Tudor is a Romanian long jumper, best known for his bronze medal at the 1994 European Indoor Championships. His personal best is 8.37 metres, achieved in July 1995 in Bad Cannstatt.-Achievements:-External links:...
  
   
• Martti Vainio
  Martti Vainio
  Martti Sakari Vainio is a former Finnish long distance runner. In Finland he is recognized as the last of the great runners of famous "V-line", the previous ones being Juha Väätäinen, Lasse Virén, and Pekka Vasala...
  
   
• Cornelius "Dutch" Warmerdam
  Cornelius Warmerdam
  Cornelius Warmerdam was a long time pole vault world record holder and is considered to be among the all time greatest vaulters....
  
   
• Priscilla Welch
  Priscilla Welch
  Priscilla June Welch is a British retired marathon runner. She had a most unlikely career in international athletics, having been a smoker of a pack a day until she began running competitively at age 35. An officer in the British Army, Welch met her husband Dave while serving in Norway...
  
   
• Georg Werthner
  Georg Werthner
  Dr. Georg Werthner is a decathlete from Austria, who was the first athlete to finish four Olympic decathlons. In 1988 after him Daley Thompson crossed the finish-line to become the second athlete to do this....
  
   
• Ed Whitlock
  Ed Whitlock
  Ed Whitlock is a Canadian long-distance runner, and the first person over 70 years old to run a marathon in less than three hours with a time of 2:59:10 in 2003....
  
   
• Ronald Whitney
  Ronald Whitney
  Ronald Howard "Ron" Whitney is a retired American hurdler and middle-distance runner. Known for his fast finish, he finished in 6th place in the 400 metre hurdles at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, Mexico as David Hemery demolished the world record...
  
   
• John Whittemore
  John Whittemore
  John Whittemore of Montecito, California, has been credited as being the "world's oldest athlete". A long time Masters Track athlete, his last competition was on October 5, 2004, just six weeks before his 105th birthday. He threw the javelin and discus on that occasion...
  
    World's Oldest Athlete
• Ruth Wysocki
  Ruth Wysocki
  Ruth Wysocki is an American middle distance runner who specialized in the 800 meters and 1500 metres.Wysocki began track competition in age-group races in the late 1960s, and continued her track career over a period of about 30 years, until she became a Masters runner in 1997...
  
   
• Iryna Yatchenko 
• Dimitrion Yordanidis
  Dimitrion Yordanidis
  Dimitrion Yordanidis was a Greek runner, who, according to Guinness World Records, completed the 26-mile marathon course from Marathon, Greece to Athens on October 10, 1976 in 7 hours 33 minutes, aged 98...
  
   

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.

• Virgilijus Alekna
  Virgilijus Alekna
  Virgilijus Alekna is a Lithuanian athlete who specialises in the discus throw. He won medals at the 2000, 2004 and 2008 Olympics, including two golds.-Career:...
  
    Holds Masters M35 Record achieved as an Open competitor
• Igor Astapkovich
  Igor Astapkovich
  Ihar Astapkovich , born in Minsk, is a hammer thrower who won two Olympic medals, first representing the Soviet Union and later his home country of Belarus.-Biography:...
  
    has not competed in a Masters event but holds two Masters World Records
• Inha Babakova
  Inha Babakova
  Inha Babakova . is a former high jumper who represented the Soviet Union and later Ukraine. Her personal best is 2.05 metres.-References:*...
  
    Holds Masters W35 Record achieved as an Open competitor
• Abdellah Béhar
  Abdellah Béhar
  Abdellah Béhar is a retired Moroccan-born French runner who specializes in the 5000 metres and cross-country running.-Achievements:-Personal bests:*3000 metres - 7:35.80 min *5000 metres - 13:13.33 min...
  
    Holds Masters M35 Record achieved as an Open competitor
• Mike Boit
  Mike Boit
  Mike Boit Mike Boit Mike Boit (Michael Kipsubut Boit; (born 1 June 1949) is a Kenyan former middle distance athlete whose career spanned fifteen years. He is presently a professor at Kenyatta University in the Department of Exercise and Sports Science....
  
    Holds Masters M35 Record achieved as an Open competitor
• Sabine Braun
  Sabine Braun
  Sabine Braun is a German former athlete in track and field. Because she had talents in several disciplines, Sabine Braun competed in the heptathlon and had a number of successes...
  
    Holds Masters W35 Record achieved as an Open competitor
• Linford Christie
  Linford Christie
  Linford Cicero Christie OBE is a former sprinter from the United Kingdom. He is the only British man to have won gold medals in the 100 metres at all four major competitions open to British athletes: the Olympic Games, the World Championships, the European Championships and the Commonwealth Games...
  
    Holds Masters M35 Record achieved as an Open competitor
• Maurizio Damilano
  Maurizio Damilano
  Maurizio Damilano is an Italian former race walker.He was the 1980 Olympic Champion and the 1987 and 1991 World Champion in the 20 km race walk....
  
    Holds Masters M35 Record achieved as an Open competitor
• Troy Douglas
  Troy Douglas
  Troy Douglas is a former Dutch sprinter. Originally competing for Bermuda, he finished second at the 1995 IAAF World Indoor Championships in the 200 metres event, but he changed nationality to the Netherlands some time after...
  
    has not competed in a Masters event but holds two Masters World Records
• Stacy Dragila
  Stacy Dragila
  Stacy Renée Mikaelsen is an American former pole vaulter.She won the first gold medal in women's pole vaulting at the 2000 Summer Olympics coached by Dave Nielsen...
  
    Holds Masters W35 Record achieved as an Open competitor
• Heike Drechsler
  Heike Drechsler
  Heike Gabriela Drechsler née Daute 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...
  
    Holds Masters W35 Record achieved as an Open competitor
• Jonathan Edwards
  Jonathan Edwards (athlete)
  Jonathan David Edwards, CBE, is a former British triple jumper. He is a former Olympic, Commonwealth, European and World champion, and has held the world record in the event since 1995....
  
    Holds Masters M35 Record achieved as an Open competitor
• Ludmila Engquist
  Ludmila Engquist
  Ludmila Engquist is a former Soviet/Russian/Swedish athlete who competed in the 1988 Summer Olympics , in the 1992 Summer Olympics , and in the 1996 Summer Olympics .She won gold medals in 100m hurdles at the 1991 World...
  
    Holds Masters W35 Record achieved as an Open competitor
• Haile Gebrselassie
  Haile Gebrselassie
  Haile Gebrselassie is an Ethiopian long-distance track and road running athlete. He won two Olympic gold medals over 10,000 metres and four World Championship titles in the event. He won the Berlin Marathon four times consecutively and also had three straight wins at the Dubai Marathon...
  
    Holds Masters M35 Record achieved as an Open competitor
• Johnny Gray
  Johnny Gray
  John Lee Gray, Jr. was an American 800 m runner of the late 1980s and early 1990s. In 1985 he set the US record of 1:42.60 min at a meet in Koblenz. That time puts Gray as the #11 performer of all time...
  
    Holds Masters M35 Record achieved as an Open competitor
• Lyubov Gurina
  Lyubov Gurina
  Lyubov Gurina is a retired middle-distance runner who represented the USSR, the Unified Team, and later Russia. Competing mainly in the 800 metres, in 1994 she became the oldest European Champion at the age of 37...
  
    Holds Masters W35 Record achieved as an Open competitor
• Jeff Hartwig
  Jeff Hartwig
  Jeff Hartwig is an American pole vaulter.-Biography:In 1998, Hartwig set two North American records with 6.00 and 6.01 metres. The latter was an improvement of 16 centimetres from his personal best of 5.85 m from 1997...
  
    Holds Masters M35 Record achieved as an Open competitor
• Colin Jackson
  Colin Jackson
  Colin Ray Jackson CBE is a British former sprint and hurdling athlete who specialised in the 110 metres hurdles. Over his career representing Great Britain and Wales he won an Olympic silver medal, became world champion three times, went undefeated at the European Championships for 12 years and...
  
    Holds Masters M35 Record achieved as an Open competitor
• Robert Korzeniowski
  Robert Korzeniowski
  Robert Korzeniowski is a former Polish racewalker. He has won four gold medals at the Summer Olympics and three at world championships....
  
    Holds Masters M35 Record achieved as an Open competitor
• Inessa Kravets
  Inessa Kravets
  Inessa Mykolajivna Kravets is an Ukrainian triple jumper and long jumper.She jumped the world record at the 1995 World Championships in Gothenburg with 15.50m after studying a picture of Jonathan Edwards....
  
    Holds Masters W35 Record achieved as an Open competitor
• Olga Kuzenkova
  Olga Kuzenkova
  Olga Sergeyevna Kuzenkova is a Russian athlete, the first woman to throw the hammer more than 70 meters.She won gold in the women's hammer throw event at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.She trained with Aleksandr Seleznyov.-Notes:...
  
    Holds Masters W35 Record achieved as an Open competitor
• Bernard Lagat
  Bernard Lagat
  Bernard Kipchirchir Lagat is an American middle and long distance champion athlete.Lagat was born in Kapsabet, Kenya...
  
    Holds multiple Masters M35 Records achieved as an Open competitor
• Carl Lewis
  Carl Lewis
  Frederick Carlton "Carl" Lewis is an American former track and field athlete, who won 10 Olympic medals including 9 gold, and 10 World Championships medals, of which 8 were gold. His career spanned from 1979 when he first achieved a world ranking to 1996 when he last won an Olympic title and...
  
    Holds Masters M35 Record achieved as an Open competitor
• Lev Lobodin
  Lev Lobodin
  Lev Alekseyevich Lobodin is a male decathlete from Russia, having changed nationality from Ukraine at the end of 1996. His best achievement was the silver medal at the 2003 World Indoor Championships in Birmingham.-Achievements:- Personal bests :...
  
    Holds Masters M35 Record achieved as an Open competitor
• Carlos Lopes
  Carlos Lopes
  Carlos Alberto de Sousa Lopes, GCIH, is a former Portuguese long-distance athlete, winner of the marathon race at the 1984 Summer Olympics, in Los Angeles. He brought home Portugal's first ever Olympic gold medal along with a new Olympic record - 2:09.21.Born in Vildemoinhos, near Viseu, Portugal,...
  
    Holds Masters M35 Record achieved as an Open competitor
• Edith Masai
  Edith Masai
  Edith Chewangel Masai is a Kenyan former long-distance runner who specialised in cross country and track races, then road races in her late career. She represented Kenya at the 2004 Summer Olympics.. Sports Reference. Retrieved on 2011-11-07...
  
    Holds Masters W35 Record achieved as an Open competitor
• Danny McFarlane
  Danny McFarlane
  Danny McFarlane, OD is a Jamaican hurdler, who has won numerous international medals in individual and relay contests...
  
    Holds Masters M35 Record achieved as an Open competitor
• Faina Melnyk  Holds Masters W35 Record achieved as an Open competitor
• Steffi Nerius
  Steffi Nerius
  Steffi Nerius is a German athlete competing in the javelin throw. She won silver at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens and is the reigning World Champion; she is also a three-time bronze medalist at that level.Initially playing volleyball in school, she was too short for a career in this sport and...
  
    Holds Masters W35 Record achieved as an Open competitor
• Brian Oldfield
  Brian Oldfield
  Brian Oldfield is a former American athlete and personality of the 1970s and early 1980s. A standout shot putter, Oldfield is credited with making the rotational technique popular. With his "Oldfield spin," he set the indoor and outdoor world records in the sport many times...
  
    has not competed in a Masters event but holds two Masters World Records
• Merlene Ottey
  Merlene Ottey
  Merlene Joyce Ottey , is a Jamaican-born Slovenian track athlete. Ottey began her career representing Jamaica, but since 2002, has represented Slovenia, where she now resides...
  
    has not competed in a Masters event but holds several Masters World Records
• Larisa Peleshenko
  Larisa Peleshenko
  Larisa Alexandrovna Peleshenko , née Agapova is a retired Russian shot putter best known for winning the Olympic silver medal in 2000. In her early career she won European Indoor silver medals, but in February 1995 she received a four-year drugs ban. Having originally won the 1995 World Indoor...
  
    Holds Masters W35 Record achieved as an Open competitor
• Aurelia Pentón
  Aurelia Pentón
  Aurelia Catalina Pentón Conde is a retired track and field athlete from Cuba, who competed in the 400 and 800 metres during her career. She twice represented her native country at the Summer Olympics: 1968 and 1972....
  
    Holds Masters W35 Record achieved as an Open competitor
• Elisabetta Perrone
  Elisabetta Perrone
  Elisabetta Perrone is a retired female race walker from Italy.-Achievements:-External links:*...
  
    Holds Masters W35 Record achieved as an Open competitor
• Yekaterina Podkopayeva
  Yekaterina Podkopayeva
  Yekaterina Podkopayeva is a retired middle distance runner who represented the USSR and later Russia. She gained international recognition in 1983, when she won two bronze medals at the World Championships . The same year she managed an 800 m time of 1:55.96. She resurfaced in 1992, winning the...
  
    has not competed in a Masters event but holds several Masters World Records
• Maricica Puică
  Maricica Puica
  Maricica Puică is a Romanian former middle distance athlete, who won the 3000 meters gold medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, a race also remembered for the collision of Mary Decker and Zola Budd....
  
    has not competed in a Masters event but holds several Masters World Records
• Kerry Saxby-Junna
  Kerry Saxby-Junna
  Kerry-Anne Saxby-Junna, born Kerry Saxby , is a retired Australian race walker. She is the world record holder at 5.000 metres track walk with 20:03.0 from 1996, and the Oceanian record holder at 10.000 metres walk with 41:57.22 from 1990. She was born in Ballina.-Achievements:-External links:*...
  
    Holds Masters W35 Record achieved as an Open competitor
• Marina Stepanova
  Marina Stepanova
  Marina Stepanova is a former Soviet track and field athlete who was the first woman to run under 53 seconds in the 400 metres hurdles.-Career:...
  
    Holds Masters W35 Record achieved as an Open competitor
• Dragutin Topic
  Dragutin Topic
  -Career:He is a World junior record holder with 2.37 when he won World Junior Championships 1990, three weeks before his win at European Championships. In the same year Topić received the golden badge award for best athlete of Yugoslavia. Topic has set five national records, and claimed four...
  
    Holds Masters M35 Record achieved as an Open competitor
• Simon Vroemen
  Simon Vroemen
  Simon Frans Vroemen is a Dutch runner, specialising in the steeplechase.Vroemen has a degree in molecular sciences from the Wageningen University. He wrote his dissertation on the stress physiology of grasshoppers...
  
    Holds Masters M35 Record achieved as an Open competitor
• Ibrahima Wade
  Ibrahima Wade
  Ibrahima Wade is a French sprinter who specializes in the 400 metres. He switched nationality from his birth country Senegal in 2000.His personal best time is 45.05 seconds, achieved in August 1998 in Dakar...
  
    Holds Masters M35 Record achieved as an Open competitor
• John Walker  Holds Masters M35 Record achieved as an Open competitor
• Jan Železný
  Jan Železný
  Jan Železný is a Czech javelin thrower, world and Olympic champion and world record holder in javelin throw...
  
  has not competed in a Masters event but holds two Masters World Records