Speed City
Bid Winter
Tommie Smith
Lee Evans
John Carlos
Mexico City
World Records
Jim Hines 9.95
Tommie Smith 19.83
Lee Evans 43.86
Smith / Carlos protest and ban
Valery Borzov
Steve Williams
Don Quarrie
Houston McTear
High Schooler runs 9.0
Pietro Mennea 19.72!! Takes down WR
Munich
Eddie Hart
Rey Robinson
Co World Record holders miss quarterfinal races
Borzov double sprint champion
Montreal
Alberto Juantorena
400/800 double gold
Harvey Glance
Hasely Crawford
Teens / high schoolers
Houston McTear
Johnny "Lam" Jones
Dwayne Evans
Germans
East
Renate Stecher
Beginning of East German
female dominance
Less the Eastern Bloc in the
development of systematic doping
West
Inge Helten
Annegret Richter
Irena Szewinska
Great multiple sprinter
First sub 50 female
quarter miler
Raylene Boyle
Moscow
Boycott
Los Angeles
Boycott
Rise of Carl Lewis
Repeat Jesse Owens quadruple
Seoul
Drug Bust
Ben v Carl II
Ben 9.79wr (busted)
FloJo
The Santa Monica Track Club
Tom Tellez
Carl Lewis
Legendary battles w Ben Johnson
Runner up in'87/'88, retroactive WR
@ 9.93/9.92 after Ben bust in Seoul
Runs WR 9.86 to win in Tokyo
Kirk Baptiste
Joe Deloach
Leroy Burrell
Set WR @ 9.90 & 9.85
Also 9.88 behind Lewis
in Tokyo
First true professional club
World Championships
Helsinki
Rome
Ben v Carl I
Ben 9.83!!wr
Evelyn Ashford
Takes down East Germans
10.79wr / 10.76wr / 21.81
Florence Griffith Joyner
10.49 wr/ 21.32wr, 21.56wr
Hot season of 1988
Dennis Mitchell
Calvin Smith
9.93!! wr
Charlie Francis
Ben Johnson
Angela Issajenko
Perfected doping protocols
John Smith
Quincy Watts
Steve Lewis
Danny Everett
Former quarter miler brought
the 400 back to '68 levels through
his protege's
Butch Reynolds
East Germans
Marita Koch
10.93 / 21.71wr / 47.60wr
Marlies Gohr
10.88wr
Barbel Wockel
Jarmila Kratochvilova
11.09 / 21.97 / 47.99wr / 1:53.23wr
World Championships
Edmonton
Paris
Helsinki
Osaka
Berlin
Olympics
Sydney
Athens
Beijing
John Smith
Trevor Graham
Nigeria
Daniel Effiong
Olapade Adeniken
Francis Obikwelu
Frankie Fredericks
Namibian, elite through the decade..
African record holder 100/200
9.89/19.63
Canada
Donovan Bailey
World & Olympic champion
Goteborg / Atlanta
WR setter @Atlanta Games
9.84
Bruny Surin
United States
Michael Johnson
Great Britain
Linford Christie
World & Olympic champion
Stuttgart / Barcelona
John Regis
Jason Gardener
Christian Malcolm
France
Became 4 x 1 wr holders
without a major sprinter
Olympics
Barcelona
Atlanta
MJ 200/400 double
MJ 19.32wr
Donovan Bailey 9.84wr
World Championships
Tokyo
Carl 9.86
Stuttgart
Goteborg
Athens
Emergence of Mo Greene
Seville
Mo Greene 1st World's 100/200 double
John Smith
Drive Phase
Major change in sprinting
Brought consistency to the 100
Ato Boldon
Jon Drummond
Maurice Greene
9.79 wr, to return to Ben Johnson level
HSI
Preeminent club of the decade
Women
Marlene Ottey
Gwen Torrence
Gail Devers
Two time 100 champion
in spite of actually being a hurdler
Irina Privalova
The top women of the 90's
were versatile sprinters
with range