Category
page 1Athletes (track and field) at the 1972 Summer Olympics
Caitlyn Jenner
American media personality and retired decathlete
Irena Szewińska
Polish sprinter and sports official (1946–2018)
Pietro Mennea
Italian sprinter and politician (1952–2013)
Valeriy Borzov
Ukrainian sprinter
Lasse Virén
Finnish long-distance runner
Kip Keino
Kenyan athlete
Viktor Saneyev
Georgian triple jumper (1945–2022)
Colette Besson
French sprinter
Alberto Juantorena
Cuban track athlete
Ulrike Meyfarth
German former high jumper
Sara Simeoni
Italian high jumper
Grete Waitz
Norwegian marathon runner and former world record holder (1953-2011)
Jānis Lūsis
Latvian javelin thrower (1939-2020)
Rosemarie Ackermann
German former high jumper
Volodymyr Holubnychyy
Ukrainian Race Walker (1936–2021)
John Akii-Bua
Ugandan athletics competitor (1949–1997)
Lia Manoliu
Romanian athletics competitor (1932-1998)
Ruth Fuchs
German politician and athlete, Olympic champion (1946–2023)
Helena Fibingerová
Czechoslovak shot-putter
Mohammed Gammoudi
Tunisian athlete
Mamo Wolde
Ethiopian marathon runner (1932–2002)
Margitta Gummel
East German shot putter (1941-2021)
Abdalá Bucaram Ortiz
President of Ecuador (1996 - 1997)
Władysław Komar
athletics competitor (1940-1998)
Gyula Zsivótzky
Hungarian hammer thrower (1937–2007)
Olga Fikotová
Czechoslovak and American discus thrower (1932–2024)
Annelie Ehrhardt
East German hurdler (1950–2024)
Faina Melnyk
Soviet discus thrower
Miruts Yifter
Ethiopian long distance runner
Klaus Wolfermann
German athlete (1946–2024)
Hildegard Falck
German middle distance runner
Guy Drut
French athletics competitor and politician
Monika Zehrt
East German sprinter
Lyudmila Bragina
athletics competitor
Miklós Németh
(1946–) Hungarian javelin thrower
Renate Stecher
East German sprinter
Frank Shorter
American long-distance runner
Jüri Tarmak
Estonian athletics competitor (1946–2022)
Don Quarrie
Jamaican athletics (sport) competitor, sprinter
Mary Peters
British pentathlete
Viorica Viscopoleanu
athletics competitor
Hasely Crawford
Trinidadian sprinter
Anatolii Bondarchuk
Ukrainian hammer thrower (1940-2025)
Karin Balzer
East German hurdler
Nadezhda Chizhova
Soviet athlete
Jorma Kinnunen
Finnish athletics competitor (1941–2019)
Ivanka Khristova
Bulgarian shot putter (1941–2022)
Heide Rosendahl
German pentathlete (born 1947)
Carlos Lopes
Olympic runner
David Hemery
British hurdler
Abdon Pamich
Italian athlete
Ludvík Daněk
Czechoslovak discus thrower (1937–1998)
Angéla Németh
athletics competitor
Ingrid Becker
German former athletics competitor, politician (CDU), and teacher (born 1942)
Wolfgang Nordwig
East German pole vaulter
Mykola Avilov
Ukrainian Soviet decathlete, gold medalist in 1972 Olympics
Arnie Robinson
Athletics competitor, long jumper (1948–2020)
Igor Ter-Ovanesyan
athletics competitor
Vincent Matthews
American sprinter
Bernd Kannenberg
German athletics competitor (1942–2021)