Justin

Gatlin
American
sprinter.
who shares
the world
record in
the 100 m
sprint
(with
Asafa
Powell)
with a time
of 9.77
seconds.
He tested
positive
for drugs.

Asafa Powell (born 23

November 1982) is a Jamaican
sprinter, and is currently the
100m world record holder, 100 M
with a time of 9.77 seconds.
 Men's World Record Times - 2000 to 2006
A world record Apr 14, 2002 - Men's World Record
time from Khalid Khalid Khannouchi (USA) - 2:05:38
Khannouchi
London Marathon, London, England
edges out
Kenya's Paul
Tergat and At the 2002 London Marathon, Khalid
Ethiopia's Haile Khannouchi, now running for America,
Gebrselassie outran running legends Haile
Gebrselassie of Ethiopia and Paul Tergat
of Kenya while breaking his own three-
MARATHON year-old world record by four seconds and
setting a new one of 2:05:38.
Sergei Bubka (Сергій Бубка)
(born 4 December 1963) is a retired
Ukrainian pole vaulter. He
represented the Soviet Union before
its dissolution in 1991. He is widely
regarded as the best pole vaulter
ever and one of the best athletes of
modern times.
Bubka won 6 consecutive IAAF
World Championships, an
Olympics gold and broke the world
record for men's pole vaulting 35
times (17 outdoor and 18 indoor
records). He is the first to clear 6.0
metres and the first and only (as of
January 2007) to clear 6.10 metres
(20 feet).
He owns the current outdoor world
record of 6.14 metres on 31 July
1994 in Sestriere, Italy and the
current indoor world record of 6.15
meters on 21 February 1993 in
Donetsk, Ukraine
Jonathan David Edwards CBE
(born May 10, 1966 in London,
England) is a former British triple
jumper and widely regarded as the
finest triple jumper of all time. He is
an Olympic champion and has held
the world record in the event since
1995.
In his breakthrough year of 1995, he
produced an astonishing jump of
18.43 m at the European Cup. The
leap was wind assisted and did not
count for record purposes but it was a
sign of things to come as he capped an
unbeaten year with an historic gold
medal performance at the World
Championships. On his first jump, he
became the first man to legally pass
the 18-metre barrier (18.16 m). That
record lasted for about 20 minutes.
His second jump of 18.29 m made
him the first to jump 60 feet. Later the
same year Edwards became the BBC
Sports Personality of the Year
Javier Sotomayor (born October 13, 1967) is a Cuban
former athlete who specialized in the high jump. He is
1.94 metres tall.
He was the 1997 World Champion high jumper and
current holder of the world record for the high jump.
His personal-best heights were 2.45 metres (8 ft ½ in,
world record) on July 23, 1993 in Salamanca, 2.44
metres on July 29, 1989 in San Juan, and 2.43 metres
(world indoor record) on March 4, 1989 in Budapest.
Additionally, he won the gold medal at the 1992
Summer Olympics and won the silver medal at the
2000 Summer Olympics after the reversal of a drug
suspension for cocaine use.
Sotomayor has a rare dominance in the history of this
event. Of the 24 all-time best high jumps, 17 are his;
he has cleared 2.40 metres more times than any other
athlete and is the only person to have cleared eight
feet. The last time he cleared 2.40 metres was on
March 25, 1995 at the Pan American Games in Mar del
Plata, Argentina. No-one has jumped higher since.
Long jumper at the GE Money Grand Prix in Helsinki, July 2005
Michael ("Mike") Anthony Powell (born November
10, 1963) is an American Track and Field athlete.
Mike Powell was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
At the 1991 World Championships in Athletics
(Tokyo) he broke Bob Beamon's 23-year-old long
jump world record by 5 cm (2 inches) leaping 8.95 m
(29 ft 4½ in). He won the James E. Sullivan Award in
1991. He won long jump silver medals at both the
1988 Olympics and 1992 Olympics; in 1993 he was
again world champion.

After the 1996 Olympics, Powell retired, but he

returned in 2001 with a g oal of competing in the
2004 Olympics.
1991 saw Mike win the BBC Sports Personality of
the Year Overseas Personality Award.
Powell, who attended the University of California at
Irvine, is a member of Alpha Phi Alpha, the oldest
intercollegiate Greek-letter fraternity established for
African Americans.