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page 1Athletes (track and field) at the 1968 Summer Olympics
Abebe Bikila
Ethiopian double Olympic marathon champion
Bob Beamon
American track and field athlete
Irena Szewińska
Polish sprinter and sports official (1946–2018)
Dick Fosbury
American athletics competitor, high jumper
Kip Keino
Kenyan athlete
Al Oerter
American athlete (1936-2007)
Viktor Saneyev
Georgian triple jumper (1945–2022)
Jim Hines
American sprinter and football player (1946–2023)
Peter Norman
Australian sprinter (1942-2006)
Colette Besson
French sprinter
Tommie Smith
American track and field athlete
Józef Szmidt
Polish triple jumper (1935–2024)
Jānis Lūsis
Latvian javelin thrower (1939-2020)
Volodymyr Holubnychyy
Ukrainian Race Walker (1936–2021)
Ralph Boston
Olympic athlete (1939–2023)
Wyomia Tyus
American sprinter
Lia Manoliu
Romanian athletics competitor (1932-1998)
Mohammed Gammoudi
Tunisian athlete
Mamo Wolde
Ethiopian marathon runner (1932–2002)
Margitta Gummel
East German shot putter (1941-2021)
Klaus Wolfermann
German athlete (1946–2024)
Olga Fikotová
Czechoslovak and American discus thrower (1932–2024)
Gyula Zsivótzky
Hungarian hammer thrower (1937–2007)
Władysław Komar
athletics competitor (1940-1998)
John Carlos
American track and field athlete
Pauli Nevala
Finnish athletics competitor (1940–2025)
Miklós Németh
(1946–) Hungarian javelin thrower
Ron Clarke
Australian long-distance runner (1937-2015)
Lee Evans
American track and field athlete (1947–2021)
Romuald Klim
Soviet and Belarusian hammer thrower (1933–2011)
Viorica Viscopoleanu
athletics competitor
Heide Rosendahl
German pentathlete (born 1947)
Mary Peters
British pentathlete
Nadezhda Chizhova
Soviet athlete
David Hemery
British hurdler
Karin Balzer
East German hurdler
Ivanka Khristova
Bulgarian shot putter (1941–2022)
Jorma Kinnunen
Finnish athletics competitor (1941–2019)
Mihaela Peneș
athletics competitor (1947–2024)
Abdon Pamich
Italian athlete
Angéla Németh
athletics competitor
Ludvík Daněk
Czechoslovak discus thrower (1937–1998)
Randy Matson
American athletics competitor
Livio Berruti
Italian former athlete
Ingrid Becker
German former athletics competitor, politician (CDU), and teacher (born 1942)
Mykola Avilov
Ukrainian Soviet decathlete, gold medalist in 1972 Olympics
Wolfgang Nordwig
East German pole vaulter
Vincent Matthews
American sprinter
Igor Ter-Ovanesyan
athletics competitor
Naftali Temu
Kenyan long-distance runner
Bob Seagren
athletics competitor
Hal Connolly
American hammer thrower (1931–2010)
Nelson Prudêncio
athletics competitor (1944–2012)
Gaston Roelants
Belgian steeplechaser and cross country runner
Ilona Gusenbauer
Austrian high jumper
Yordanka Blagoeva
athletics competitor
Miloslava Rezková
Czechoslovak high jumper (1950–2014)
Liese Prokop
Austrian pentathlete (1941-2006)
Pekka Vasala
Finnish middle- and long distance runner
Anders Gärderud
Swedish athlete