- Usain Bolt – 100m and 200m Olympic champion
- Haile Gebrselassie – 10,000 double Olympic champion and set two world record marathon times.
- Mo Farah – Olympic champion at 5000, and 10,000,
- Carl Lewis – Olympic champion at 100m, 200m and long jump
- Eric Liddell – Olympic 400m champion and inspiration for Chariots of Fire.
- Tegla Laroupe – Held womens world marathon record 1998-2001
- Emil Zatopek – Olympic champion at 5,000m, 10,000m and marathon.
- Jesse Owens – sprinting legend won gold at 1936 Berlin Olympics
- Roger Bannister – First man to beat sub 4 minutes mile
- Sebastian Coe – Double Olympic champion at 1500m
- Paula Radcliffe – Broke womens world marathon record.
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