List of masters athletes
Introduction This is a list of notable people who have participated in masters athletics. Most have achieved their primary notability through athletic endeavors except when noted. * Luciano Acquarone * Aimo Aho * Gabriela Andersen-Schiess * Henry Andrade  * Birger Asplund * Doris Auer * Charles Austin * Rink Babka * Lee Baca  Los Angeles County Sheriff* Bob Backus * Lawrence Baird * Thane Baker * Willie Banks * Arthur Barnard * James Barrineau * Jack Bacheler * Dieter Baumann * Tim Berrett * Nataša Bezjak * Laurie Binder * Chris Black * Peter Blank * Meeri Bodelid * Viktor Bolshov  * Charlie Booth  inventor of Starting Blocks* Lamberto Boranga * Christa Bortignon * Mary Bowermaster * Roald Bradstock   Artist* Norman Bright * Debbie Brill * Benny Brown * Arto Bryggare * Zola Budd * Ed Burke * Billie Ann Burrill  * Rich Busa * Arild Busterud * Tom Byers * John Carlos * Gary Carlsen * Angelo Carosi * David Carr * Ed Caruthers * Dwain Chambers * Harold Chapson * Yelizaveta Chernyshova  * Lydia Cheromei * Rosemary Chrimes * Todd Christensen  American Football* Dick Cochran * Eamonn Coghlan  * Leon Coleman * Bill Collins * Phil Conley * Harold Connolly * Ted Corbitt * Bill Cosby  Comedian* Alan Cranston  U.S. Senator* Josh Culbreath * Toshiko D'Elia * Maria Pia D'Orlando * Tamara Danilova  * Jeanne Daprano * Willie Davenport * Gerry Davidson * Mary Decker-Slaney * Colleen De Reuck  * Maureen de St. Croix * Elliott Denman * Ken Dennis * Ángel Díaz * Grace-Ann Dinkins    also Trauma Surgeon* Rod Dixon * Walter Dix * Fabrizio Donato * Anthony Dorsett  American Football* Aleksandr Dryhol  * Charles Dumas * Ludmila Engquist   * Andrés Espinosa * Saskia Estupinan  Public Health Doctor* Laverne Eve * Lee Evans (sprinter) * Mohamed Ezzher * Earl Fee * Nuria Fernández * Maria Magnólia Figueiredo * Frederico Fischer * Dick Fosbury * Jack Foster * Ruth Frith  Centenarian, world's oldest female athlete* Gabre Gabric  Centenarian* Tom Gage * Willie Gault   also American Football Player* Fortune Gordien * Miki Gorman * Ivy Granstrom * Dalton Grant * Johnny Gray   Oct 2000 Ran Masters Mile (Run For Children) as a M40.Holds Masters M35 Record achieved as an Open competitor* Norm Green * Jack Greenwood * Jim Grelle * Viktor Gruzenkin * Albert Hall (athlete) * Kozo Haraguchi * Eddie Hart * Alisa Harvey-Hill * Larry Hart (athlete) * Dawn Hartigan * Rex Harvey  also Official and Administrator* Ray Hatton  Born in * Robert Hecker  Musician* Bud Held  also Inventor and Entrepreneur* James Chico Hernandez  Wrestler* Hal Higdon  also Sports Writer* Ron Hill * Jim Hines * Russ Hodge * Maurice Houvion * Bob Humphreys * Guy Husson * Ayanna Hutchinson * Hubert Indra * Rıza Maksut İşman * Ivan Ivančić   * April Jace  Celebrity murder victim* Regina Jacobs * Kip Janvrin * Erwin Jaskulski  Centenarian* Billy Johnson  American Football player* Tebbs Lloyd Johnson * Payton Jordan * Monica Joyce   * Regina Joyce  Olympian for  * Al Joyner * Gitte Karlshøj * Dimitrios Kattis * Ryszard Katus * Ida Keeling  Centenarian* Johnny Kelley * Patrick C. Kennell   Academic* John Keston  British actor* Ray Kimble * James King * Roger Kingdom * Mark Kiptoo * Herb Kirk  World's oldest runner* Wolfgang Knabe * Peter Koech * Mariya Konovalova * Olga Kotelko * Galina Kovalenskaya * Stanisław Kowalski  Centenarian, world's oldest aAthlete* June Krauser  "Mother of Masters swimming"* Marty Krulee * Shaul Ladany  * Ron Laird * Francie Larrieu-Smith * Bev LaVeck * Evelyn Lawler   Mother of Carl Lewis and Carol Lewis* Fred Lebow   New York Marathon event director* Nicole Lévêque * Gerry Lindgren * James Lofton   also Hall of Fame American Football player* Jud Logan * Mihaela Loghin * Mario Longo * Arne Lothe * Horst Mandl * Mike Manley * Pat Manson * José Marín * Marsha Mark-Baird * Peter Marsh  Academic, sociologist* John Martel  Lawyer and novelist* Marie Mathieu * Ralph Maxwell  Judge* Bill McChesney * Phil McConkey   American Football player* Anne McKenzie * James McNamara * Leland McPhie  Centenarian* Delano Meriwether  also physician* E. Gerald Meyer  Centenarian* Marie-Louise Michelsohn  Mathematician* Alain Mimoun * Victoria Mitchell * Hidekichi Miyazaki  Centenarian* Felicia Țilea-Moldovan  * Martín Mondragón * David Moorcroft * Boo Morcom * Carol Moseke (Frost) USA* Sylvia Mosqueda * Phil Mulkey * Kenneth Mungara * Fabiana Murer* Sandra Myers * Iryna Mykhalchenko * Larry Myricks * Fidelis Ndyabagye * Nick Newton  Inventor* Jamie Nieto * Doug Nordquist * Gary Null  Author/Pundit* Nadine O'Connor * Irene Obera * Al Oerter * Vera Olenchenko   * Brian Oldfield  Competed at a June 1978 Masters Meet. Holds two Masters World Records* Marcus O'Sullivan * Giuseppe Ottaviani (athlete) Italian* Evy Palm * Ladislav Pataki * Dodyu Patarinski * Tom Patsalis * Donald Pellmann  Centenarian* Elisabetta Perrone * Steve Peters  Sports psychiatrist* Lyudmila Petrova * Florence Picaut * Dmitry Pietrman   Futbol/Soccer club owner* Simon Poelman * Valbjörn Þorláksson * Bernardine Portenski * Patricia Porter * Caroline Powell * Tatyana Pozdnyakova  * Alfred Proksch * Philip Rabinowitz  Centenarian* Carmelo Rado * Philipa Raschker * Lucien Rault * Pam Reed * Marian Shields Robinson  Mother of current U.S. First Lady* Bill Rodgers * Gaston Roelants * Orville Rogers  Centenarian  * Henry Rono * Nick Rose * Anne Chatrine Rühlow * Jim Ryun  also U.S. Congressman* Joan Benoit Samuelson * Ugo Sansonetti * Enrico Saraceni * Willi Sawall * Silke Schmidt * Bob Schul * Steve Scott * Helen Searle * Yuriy Sedykh * Marco Segatel * Iryna Sekachova * Vyacheslav Shabunin * Nolan Shaheed  Jazz trumpeter* George A. Sheehan  Running writer* Frank Shorter * Zdeňka Šilhavá * Jay Silvester * Fauja Singh  * Chuck Smead * Joyce Smith * Karl Smith * Marjorie Parker Smith  Dancer/Figure skater* Peter Snell * Jim Sorensen * Fred Sowerby  * Mattias Sunneborn * Paul Spangler  * Sasha Springer-Jones * Walt Stack * Kjell-Erik Ståhl * Brian Stanton * Rudolf Steiner * Gary Stenlund * Dwight Stones * Ed Stotsenberg  Philanthropist* Larry Stuart * Jüri Tamm * Tatyana Ter-Mesrobyan * Valbjörn Þorláksson * Domingo Tibaduiza * Milan Tiff * Felicia Țilea-Moldovan * Bogdan Tudor * Derek Turnbull * Gary Tuttle * Teresa Vaill * Martti Vainio * Venelina Veneva-Mateeva * Sandro Viana * Sean Wade  * Bill Wambach * 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 * 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* Virgilijus Alekna  Holds Masters M35 Record achieved as an Open competitor* 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   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* 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  Holds Masters M35 Record achieved as an Open competitor* Ludmila Engquist  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 IAAF World Cup* Meb Keflezighi  American M40 Marathon record holder, ran in 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* Carl Lewis   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   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* Elisabetta Perrone  Holds Masters W35 Record achieved as an Open competitor* 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  ran a superior time to M35 World record in the 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 Topić  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  Holds Masters M35 Record achieved as an Open competitor* Jan Železný  has not competed in a Masters event but holds two Masters World Records
See also *World Masters Athletics Championships*Masters Athletics*USATF Masters Outdoor Championships*USATF Masters Indoor Championships
References
External links *  USA Olympians that have competed as Masters Track and Field Athletes* NFL athletes that later competed in Masters Track and Field* Sullivan Award winners that later competed in Masters Track and Field