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10,000m                                 
1912        Hannes Kolehmainen  FIN       Lewis Tewanima USA          Albin Stenroos  FIN
1920        Paavo Nurmi   FIN                     Joseph Guillemot  FRA        
James Wilson  GBR
1924        Ville Ritola  FIN                         Edvin Wide  SWE                
Eero Berg  FIN
1928        Paavo Nurmi  FIN                      Ville Ritola  FIN                   
Edvin Wide  SWE
1932        Janusz Kusocieski  POL             Volmari Iso-Hollo   FIN          
Lauri Virtanen  FIN
1936        Ilmari Salminen  FIN                 Arvo Askola  FIN                    
Volmari Iso-Hollo  FIN
1948        Emil Zátopek  CZE                     Alain Mimoun  FRA             
Bertil Albertsson  SWE
1952        Emil Zátopek  CZE                     Alain Mimoun  FRA              
Aleksandr Anufriyev  URS
1956        Vladimir Kuts  URS                    József Kovács  HUN              
Allan Lawrence  AUS
1960        Pyotr Bolotnikov   URS               Hans Grodotzki  GER            
David Power  AUS
1964        Billy Mills   USA                    Mohamed Gammoudi   TUN     
Ron Clarke  AUS
1968        Naftali Temu  KEN                     Mamo Wolde   ETH             
Mohamed Gammoudi  TUN
1972        Lasse Virén  FIN                         Emiel Puttemans  BEL         
Miruts Yifter  ETH
1976        Lasse Virén  FIN                         Carlos Sousa Lopes  POR     
Brendan Foster  GBR
1980        Miruts Yifter  ETH                      Kaarlo Maaninka   FIN          
Mohammed Kedir   ETH
1984        Alberto Cova    ITA                    Mike McLeod   GBR             
Mike Musyoki   KEN
1988        Brahim Boutayeb   MAR            Salvatore Antibo   ITA          
Kipkemboi Kimeli   KEN
1992        Khalid Skah  MAR                     Richard Chelimo   KEN        
Addis Abebe   ETH
1996        Haile Gebrselassie  ETH           Paul Tergat  KEN                 
Salah Hissou  MAR
2000        Haile Gebrselassie   ETH          Paul Tergat   KEN                 
Assefa Mezgebu  ETH
2004        Kenenisa Bekele  ETH             Seleshi Sehen  ETH              Zersenay Tadesse  ERI

2008        Kenenisa Bekele  ETH             Seleshi Sehen   ETH             Micah Kogo  KEN
2012     Mo Farah GBR            Galen Rupp USA            Tariku Bekele ETH

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Men's 100m
1896        Tom Burke   USA              Fritz Hofmann   DEU             Francis Lane/Alajos Szokolyi  HUN
1900        Frank Jarvis  USA              Walter Tewksbury USA          Stan Rowley  AUS
1904        Archie Hahn  USA             Nate Cartmell  USA              Bill Hogenson  USA
1906        Archie Hahn  USA             Fay Moulton  USA                Nigel Barker  AUS
1908        Reggie Walker  SAF          James Rector  USA               Robert Kerr  CAN
1912        Ralph Craig  USA              Alvah Meyer   USA               Donald Lippincott  USA
1920        Charles Paddock   USA     Morris Kirksey  USA               Harry Edward   GBR
1924        Harold Abrahams   GBR   Jackson Scholz   USA            Arthur Porritt   NZL
1928        Percy Williams   CAN       Jack London  GBR                 Georg Lammers   GER
1932        Eddie Tolan  USA           Ralph Metcalfe  USA             Arthur Jonath  GER
1936        Jesse Owens  USA           Ralph Metcalfe  USA             Tinus Osendarp NED
1948        Harrison Dillard  USA      Barney Ewell  USA                  Lloyd LaBeach  PAN
1952        Robert Remigino USA     Herb McKenley   JAM             Emmanuel Bailey  GBR
1956        Bobby Morrow  USA        Thane Baker  USA                  Hec Hogan  AUS
1960        Armin Hary  GER             David Sime  USA                   Peter Radford  GBR
1964        Bob Hayes  USA              Enrique Figuerola   CUB        Harry Jerome  CAN
1968        Jim Hines   USA              Lennox Miller  JAM                Charlie Greene  USA
1972        Valery Borzov   URS        Robert Taylor   USA               Lennox Miller  JAM
1976        Hasely Crawford   TRI      Don Quarrie   JAM                  Valery Borzov  URS
1980        Allan Wells  GBR             Silvio Leonard   CUB              Petar Petrov  BUL
1984        Carl Lewis  USA               Sam Graddy  USA                  Ben Johnson  CAN
1988        Carl Lewis  USA               Linford Christie GBR               Calvin Smith  USA
1992        Linford Christie  GBR       Frankie Fredericks  NAM          Dennis Mitchell  USA
1996        Donovan Bailey  CAN      Frankie Fredericks  NAM          Ato Boldon  TRI
2000        Maurice Greene  USA      Ato Boldon  TRI                     Obadele Thompson  BAR
2004        Justin Gatlin   USA          Francis Obikwelu   POR          Maurice Greene   USA
2008        Usain Bolt   JAM              Richard Thompson  TRI         Walter Dix  USA

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20km Walk                                            
1956        Leonid Spirin  URS               Antanas Mikenas  URS            Bruno Junk  URS
1960        Vladimir Golubnichy  URS        Noel Freeman  AUS            Stanley Vickers  GBR
1964        Ken Matthews  GBR                  Dieter Lindner  GER            Vladimir Golubnichy  URS
1968        Vladimir Golubnichy URS         José Pedraza  MEX             Nikolay Smaga  URS
1972        Peter Frenkel  GDR              Vladimir Golubnichy  URS        Hans-Georg Reimann  GDR
1976        Daniel Bautista  MEX          Hans-Georg Reimann  GDR       Peter Frenkel  GDR
1980        Maurizio Damilano  ITA      Pyotr Pochenchuk   URS            Roland Wieser  GDR
1984        Ernesto Canto  MEX            Raúl González   MEX                Maurizio Damilano  ITA
1988        Jozef Pribilinec   CZE          Ronald Weigel   GDR                Maurizio Damilano  ITA
1992        Daniel Plaza  ESP               Guillaume LeBlanc  CAN         Giovanni de Benedictis   ITA
1996        Jefferson Pérez  ECU            Ilya Markov  RUS                     Bernardo Sugura  MEX
2000        Robert Korzeniowski  POL     Noe Hernandez   MEX             Vladimir Andreyev  RUS
2004        Ivano Brugnetti  ITA          Francisco Javier Fernandez  ESP      Nathan Deakes  AUS

2008        Valeriy Borchin  RUS            Jefferson Perez  ECU                Jared Tallent  AUS
2012      Chen Ding CHN        Erick Barrondo GUA                  Wang Zhen CHN

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50km Walk
1932 Tommy Green GBR              Jánis Dalins LAT           Ugo Frigerio KIT
1936 Harold Whitlock GBR           Arthur Schwab SUI           Adalberts Bubenko LAT
1948 John Ljunggren SWE           Gaston Godel SUI           Tebbs Lloyd-Johnson GBR
1952 Pino Dordoni  ITA                Josef Dolezal CZE           Antal Róka HUN
1956 Norm Read NZL                  Yevgeny Maskinsov URS    John Ljunggren SWE
1960 Don Thompson GBR           John Ljunggren SWE         Abdon Pamich ITA
1964 Abdon Pamich  ITA             Paul Nihill GBR                 Ingvar Pettersson SWE
1968 Christoph Höhne GDR          Antal Kiss HUN                   Larry Young USA
1972 Bernd Kannenberg FRG   Veniamin Soldatenko URS     Larry Young USA
1980 Hartwig Gauder GDR           Jorge Llopart ESP             Yevgeny Ivchenko URS
1984 Raúl González MEX         Bo Gustafsson SWE             Sandro Bellucci ITA
1988 Vyacheslav Ivanenko URS      Ronald Weigel GDR       Hartwig Gauder GDR
1992 Andrey Perlov URS              Carlos Mercenario MEX      Ronald Weigel GER
1996 Robert Korzeniowski POL    Mikhail Shchennikov RUS     Valentin Massana ESP
2000 Robert Korzeniowski POL     Aigars Fadejevs LAT           Joel Sanchez MEX
2004 Robert Korzeniowski POL     Denis Nizhegorodov RUS    Aleksey Voyevodin RUS
2008 Alex Schwazer ITA                  Jared Tallent AUS            Denis Nizhegorodov RUS

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Shot Put
1896 Bob Garrett USA            Miltiades Gouskos GRE      Georgios Papasideris GRE
1900 Richard Sheldon USA  Josiah McCracken USA        Bob Garrett USA
1904 Ralph Rose USA            Wesley Coe USA                Leon Feuerbach USA
1906 Martin Sheridan USA       Mihály Dávid HUN           Eric Lemming SWE
1908 Ralph Rose USA            Dennis Horgan GBR          John Garrels USA
1912 Patrick McDonald USA         Ralph Rose USA         Lawrence Whitney USA
1920 Ville Pörhölä FIN                Elmer Niklander FIN      Harry Liversedge USA
1924 Bud Houser USA              Glenn Hartranft USA          Ralph Hills USA
1928 John Kuck USA               Herman Brix USA               Emil Hirschfeld GER
1932 Leo Sexton USA             Harlow Rothert USA          Frantisek Douda  CZE
1936 Hans Woellke GER           Sulo Bärlund FIN             Gerhard Stöck GER
1948 Wilbur Thompson USA   Francis Delaney USA         James Fuchs USA
1952 Parry O'Brien USA           Darrow Hooper USA          James Fuchs USA
1956 Parry O'Brien USA           Bill Nieder USA                Jirí Skobla CZE
1960 Bill Nieder USA              Parry O'Brien USA             Dallas Long USA
1964 Dallas Long USA            Randy Matson USA            Vilmos Varju HUN
1968  Randy Matson USA         George Woods USA           Eduard Gushchin URS
1972 Wladyslaw Komar POL  George Woods USA          Hartmut Briesenick GDR
1976 Udo Beyer GDR             Yevgeny Mironov URS      Alexandr Baryshnikov URS
1980 Vladimir Kiselyov URS  Alexandr Baryshnikov URS      Udo Beyer GDR
1984 Alessandro Andrei  ITA      Michael Carter USA           Dave Laut USA
1988 Ulf Timmermann GDR       Randy Barnes  USA          Werner Günthör SUI
1992 Michael Stulce USA          James Doehring USA     Vyacheslav Lykho URS
1996 Randy Barnes USA            John Godina USA          Aleksandr Bagach UKR
2000 Arsi Harju FIN                     Adam Nelson USA        John Godina USA
2004 Yuriy Bilonog UKR             Adam Nelson USA       Joachim Olsen DEN
2008 Tomasz Majewski POL   Christian Cantwell USA    Andrei Mikhnevich BEL
2012 Tomasz Majewski POL   David Storl GER               Reese Hoffa USA

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Hammer Throw
1900 John Flanagan USA          Thomas Hare USA          Josiah McCracken USA
1904 John Flanagan USA          John DeWitt USA            Ralph Rose USA
1908 John Flanagan USA          Matt McGrath USA          Con Walsh USA
1912 Matt McGrath USA            Duncan Gillis CAN          Clarence Childs  USA
1920 Pat Ryan USA                   Carl Lind SWE                Basil Bennet USA
1924 Frederic Tootell USA        Matt McGrath  USA         Malcolm Nokes GBR
1928 Patrick O'Callaghan IRL     Ossian Skiöld SWE        Ed Black USA
1932 Patrick O'Callaghan IRL    Ville Pörhölä FIN            Peter Zaremba USA
1936 Karl Hein GER                   Erwin Blask GER            Fred Warngård SWE
1948 Imre Németh HUN             Ivan Gubijan YUG          Bob Bennett USA
1952 József Csérmák HUN          Karl Storch GER             Imre Németh HUN
1956 Harold Connolly USA      Mikhail Krivonosov URS   Anatoly Samotsvetov URS
1960 Vasily Rudenkov URS      Gyula Zsivótzky HUN        Tadeusz Rut POL
1964 Romuald Klim URS         Gyula Zsivótzky HUN         Uwe Beyer GER
1968 Gyula Zsivótzky HUN        Romuald Klim URS          Lázár Lovász HUN
1972 Anatoly Bondarchuk URS  Jochen Sachse GDR       Vasily Khmelevski URS
1976 Yuri Sedykh URS            Aleksey Spiridonov URS    Anatoly Bondarchuk URS
1980 Yuri Sedykh URS            Sergey Litvinov URS          Jüri Tamm URS
1984 Juha Tiainen FIN           Karl-Hans Riehm FRG        Klaus Ploghaus FRG
1988 Sergey Litvinov URS       Yuri Sedykh URS               Jüri Tamm URS
1992 Andrey Abduvaliyev URS    Igor Astapkovich URS     Igor Nikulin URS
1996 Balazs Kiss HUN                  Lance Deal USA            Oleksiy Krykun UKR
2000 Szymon Ziolkowski POL      Nicola Vizzoni ITA        Igor Astapkovich BLR
2004 Koji Murofushi JPN             Ivan Tikhon BLR             Esref Apak TUR
2008 Primoz Kozmus SLO     Vadim Devyatovsky BEL      Ivan Tsikhan BEL

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Long Jump
1896 Ellery Clark USA                 Bob Garrett  USA             James Connolly USA
1900 Alvin Kraenzlein USA        Meyer Prinstein USA         Patrick Leahy GBR
1904 Meyer Prinstein USA         Daniel Frank USA              Robert Stangland USA
1906 Meyer Prinstein USA        Peter O'Connor GBR          Hugo Friend USA
1908 Frank Irons USA                Dan Kelly USA                   Calvin Bricker CAN
1912 Albert Gutterson USA       Calvin Bricker CAN             Georg Åberg SWE
1920 William Petersson SWE      Carl Johnson USA         Erik Abrahamsson SWE
1924 DeHart Hubbard USA        Edward Gourdin USA       Sverre Hansen NOR
1928 Ed Hamm USA                 Sylvio Cator HAI               Alfred Bates USA
1932 Ed Gordon USA              Charles Redd USA             Chuhei Nambu JPN
1936 Jesse Owens USA             Lutz Long GER                 Naoto Tajima JPN
1948 Willie Steele USA            Theodore Bruce AUS       Herbert Douglas USA
1952 Jerome Biffle USA          Meredith Gourdine USA       Ödön Földessy HUN
1956 Greg Bell USA                 John Bennett USA               Jorma Valkama FIN
1960 Ralph Boston USA            Bo Roberson USA             Igor Ter-Ovanesyan URS
1964 Lynn Davies GBR             Ralph Boston USA            Igor Ter-Ovanesyan URS
1968 Bob Beamon USA             Klaus Beer GDR                Ralph Boston USA
1972 Randy Williams USA       Hans Baumgartner FRG      Arni Robinson USA
1976 Arni Robinson USA          Randy Williams USA         Frank Wartenberg GDR
1980 Lutz Dombrowski GDR       Frank Paschek GDR         Valery Podluzhnyi  URS
1984 Carl Lewis USA                  Gary Honey AUS           Giovanni Evangelisti ITA
1988 Carl Lewis USA               Michael Powell USA           Larry Myricks USA
1992 Carl Lewis USA               Michael Powell USA           Joe Greene USA
1996 Carl Lewis USA                James Beckford JAM          Joe Greene USA
2000 Ivan Pedroso CUB            Jai Taurima AUS            Roman Schurenko UKR
2004 Dwight Phillips USA          John Moffitt USA           Joan Lino Martinez ESP
2008 Irving Aranda PAN        Khotso Mokoena RSA         Ibrahim Camejo CUB
2012    Greg Rutherford GBR        Mitchell Watt AUS         Will Claye USA

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High Jump
1896 Ellery Clark USA            James Connolly USA           Bob Garrett USA
1900 Irving Baxter USA          Patrick Leahy GBR              Lajos Gönczy HUN
1904 Sam Jones USA            Garrett Serviss USA             Paul Weinstein DEU
1906 Con Leahy GBR            Lajos Gönczy HUN    Themistoklis Diakidis GRE/Herbert Kerrigan USA
1908 Harry Porter USA
1912 Alma Richards USA          Hans Liesche DEU           George Horine USA
1920 Richmond Landon USA     Harold Muller USA         Bo Ekelund SWE
1924 Harold Osborn USA           Leroy Brown USA            Pierre Lewden  FRA
1928 Bob King USA                 Benjamin Hedges USA     Claude Ménard FRA
1932 Duncan McNaughton CAN   Robert van Osdel USA      Simeon Toribio PHI
1936 Cornelius Johnson USA      Dave Albritton USA        Delos Thurber USA
1948 Jack Winter AUS                Bjørn Paulson NOR         George Stanich USA
1952 Walter Davis USA            Kenneth Wiesner USA      José Telles da Conceição BRA
1956 Charles Dumas USA          Chilla Porter AUS            Igor Kashkarov URS
1960 Robert Shavlakadze URS     Valery Brumel URS       John Thomas USA
1964 Valery Brumel URS             John Thomas USA         John Rambo USA
1968 Dick Fosbury USA             Edward Caruthers USA     Valentin Gavrilov URS
1972 Jüri Tarmak URS            Stefan Junge GDR             Dwight Stones USA
1976 Jacek Wszola  POL           Greg Joy CAN                  Dwight Stones USA
1980 Gerd Wessig GDR            Jacek Wszola POL            Jörg Freimuth GDR
1984 Dietmar Mögenburg FRG     Patrik Sjöberg SWE     Jianhua Zhu CHN
1988 Gennady Avdeyenko URS  Hollis Conway USA   Patrik Sjöberg SWE/Rudolf Povarnitsyn URS
1992 Javier Sotomayor CUB        Patrik Sjöberg SWE
1996 Charles Austin USA            Artur Partyka POL         Steve Smith GBR
2000 Sergey Kliugin RUS          Javier Sotomayor CUB      Abderrahmane Hammad ALG
2004 Stefan Holm SWE             Matt Hemingway USA       Jaroslav Baba CZR
2008 Andrey Silnov RUS          Germaine Mason GBR       Yaroslav Rybakov RUS

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3000m Steeplechase
1900 George Orton CAN           Sidney Robinson GBR            Jacques Chastanié FRA
1904 James Lightbody USA          John Daly IRL                     Arthur Newton USA
1908 Arthur Russell GBR           Archie Robertson GBR            John Eisele USA
1920 Percy Hodge GBR               Patrick Flynn USA               Ernesto Ambrosini KIT
1924 Ville Ritola FIN                    Elias Katz FIN                    Paul Bontemps FRA
1928 Toivo Loukola FIN               Paavo Nurmi FIN               Ove Andersen FIN
1932 Volmari Iso-Hollo FIN         Thomas Evenson GBR          Joseph McCluskey USA
1936 Volmari Iso-Hollo  FIN         Kalle Tuominen FIN            Alfred Dompert GER
1948 Tore Sjöstrand SWE            Erik Elmsæter SWE             Göte Hagström SWE
1952 Horace Ashenfelter USA    Vladimir Kazantsev URS       John Disley GBR
1956 Chris Brasher GBR             Sándor Rozsnyól HUN           Kruska Larsen NOR
1960 Zdzislaw Krzyszkowiak POL    Nikolay Sokolov URS      Semyon Rzhishchin URS
1964 Gaston Roelants BEL             Maurice Herriott GBR        Ivan Belyaev URS
1968 Amos Biwott KEN                   Benjamin Kogo KEN          George Young USA
1972 Kipchoge Keino KEN             Ben Jipcho KEN                Tapio Kantanen FIN
1976 Anders Gårderud SWE       Bronislaw Malinowski POL      Frank Baumgartl GDR
1980 Bronislaw Malinowski POL   Filbert Bayi TAN                  Eshetu Tura ETH
1984 Julius Korir KEN                 Joseph Mahmoud FRA          Brian Diemer USA
1988 Julius Kariuki KEN              Peter Koech KEN                 Mark Rowland GBR
1992 Matthew Birir KEN              Patrick Sang KEN                William Mutwol KEN
1996 Joseph Keter KEN              Moses Kiptanui KEN        Alessandro Lambruschini ITA
2000 Reuben Kosgei KEN      Wilson Boit Kipketer KEN         Ali Ezzine MAR
2004 Ezekiel Kemboi KEN           Brimin Kiprop KEN         Paul Kipsiele Koech KEN
2008 Brimin Kipruto KEN         Mahiedine Mekhissi FRA   Richard Mateelong KEN

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400m Hurdles
1900 Walter Tewksbury USA              Henri Tauzin FRA           George Orton CAN
1904 Harry Hillman USA                   Frank Waller USA            George Poage USA
1908 Charles Bacon USA                  Harry Hillman USA          Jimmy Tremeer GBR
1920 Frank Loomis USA                    John Norton USA            August Desch USA
1924 Morgan Taylor USA                  Erkka Wilén FIN              Ivan Riley USA
1928 Lord David Burghley GBR        Frank Cuhel USA            Morgan Taylor USA
1932 Bob Tisdall IRL                        Glenn Hardin USA          Morgan Taylor USA
1936 Glenn Hardin USA                   John Loaring CAN          Miguel White PHI
1948 Roy Cochran USA                    Duncan White SRI          Rune Larsson SWE
1952 Charles Moore USA                 Yuri Lituyev URS            John Holland NZL
1956 Glenn Davis USA                    Eddie Southern USA       Josh Culbreath USA
1960 Glenn Davis USA                    Cliff Cushman USA          Richard Howard USA
1964 Rex Cawley USA                     John Cooper GBR           Salvatore Morale ITA
1968 David Hemery GBR               Gerhard Hennige FRG      John Sherwood GBR
1972 John Akii-Bua UGA                 Ralph Mann USA            David Hemery GBR
1976 Edwin Moses USA                 Michael Shine USA          Yevgeny Gavrilenko URS
1980 Volker Beck GDR                   Vasily Arkhipenko URS       Gary Oakes GBR
1984 Edwin Moses  USA                 Danny Harris USA             Harald Schmid FRG
1988 Andre Phillips USA               Amadou Dia Bâ SEN         Edwin Moses USA
1992 Kevin Young USA                Winthrop Graham JAM      Kriss Akabusi GBR
1996 Derrick Adkins USA               Samuel Matete ZAM          Calvin Davis USA
2000 Angelo Taylor USA          Hadi Souan Somayli KSA     Llewellyn Herbert RSA
2004 Felix Sanchez DOM           Danny McFarlane JAM      Naman Keita FRA
2008 Angelo Taylor USA             Kerron Clement USA          Bershawn Jackson USA

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Discus
1896        Bob Garrett USA              Panayiotis Paraskevopoulos GRE        Sotiris Versis GRE
1900        Rezsö Bauer HUN             Frantisek Janda-Suk  BOH                   Richard Sheldon USA
1904        Martin Sheridan USA        Ralph Rose USA                             Nicolaos Georgantas GRE
1906        Martin Sheridan USA        Nicolaos Georgantas GRE               Verner Järvinen  FIN
1908        Martin Sheridan USA         Merritt Giffin USA                           Bill Horr USA
1912        Armas Taipale  FIN                   Leslie Byrd USA                      James Duncan USA
1920        Elmer Niklander FIN              Armas Taipale  FIN                    August Pope USA
1924        Bud Houser USA                   Vilho Niittymaa FIN                            Thomas Lieb USA
1928        Bud Houser  USA                    Antero Kivi  FIN                                  James Corson USA
1932        John Anderson USA               Henry LaBorde USA                           Paul Winter  FRA
1936        Ken Carpenter  USA              Gordon Dunn USA                        Giorgio Oberweger KIT
1948        Adolfo Consolini  ITA               Giuseppe Tosi ITA                      Fortune Gordien USA
1952        Sim Iness  USA                 Adolfo Consolini  ITA                            James Dillion USA
1956        Al Oerter USA                   Fortune Gordien USA                                  Des Koch USA
1960        Al Oerter USA                  Rink Babka USA                                 Richard Cochran USA
1964        Al Oerter USA                  Ludvík Danek CZE                                    David Weill USA
1968        Al Oerter USA                      Lothar Milde GDR                              Ludvík Danek  CZE
1972        Ludvík Danek CZE                  Jay Silvester USA                             Rickard Bruch SWE
1976        Mac Wilkins USA               Wolfgang Schmidt GDR                       John Powell  USA
1980        Viktor Rashchupkin URS                 Imrich Bugár CZE                     Luis Delis CUB
1984        Rolf Danneberg FRG                  Mac Wilkins  USA                       John Powell USA
1988        Jürgen Schult GDR                  Romas Ubartas URS                   Rolf Danneberg FRG
1992        Romas Ubartas LTU                  Jürgen Schult GER                    Roberto Moya CUB
1996        Lars Riedel GER                Vladimir Dubrovshchik BLR            Vasiliy Kaptyukh BLR
2000        Virgilijus Alekna LTU                   Lars Riedel GER                        Frantz Kruger RSA
2004        Virgilijus Alekna LTU                Zoltan Kovago HUN             Aleksander Tammert EST
2008        Gard Kanter EST                     Piotr Malachowski POL              Virgilijus Alekna LTU

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1500m
1896        Teddy Flack AUS            Arthur Blake USA               Albin Lermusiaux FRA
1900        Charles Bennett GBR      Henri Deloge FRA             John Bray USA
1904        James Lightbody USA       William Verner USA        Lacey Hearn USA
1906        James Lightbody USA        John McGough GBR      Kristian Hellström SWE
1908        Melvin Sheppard USA        Harold Wilson GBR          Norman Hallows GBR
1912        Arnold Jackson GBR          Abel Kiviat USA                Norman Taber USA
1920        Albert Hill GBR                Philip Noel-Baker GBR         Marion Shields USA
1924        Paavo Nurmi FIN              Willy Schärer SUI               Henry Stallard GBR
1928        Harry Larva FIN                Jules Ladoumègue FRA          Eino Purje-Borg FIN
1932        Luigi Beccali KIT              John Cornes GBR               Philip Edwards CAN
1936        Jack Lovelock NZL             Glenn Cunningham USA        Luigi Beccali  KIT
1948        Henry Eriksson SWE               Lennart Strand SWE          Wim Slijkhuis NED
1952        Josy Barthel  LUX                  Robert McMillen USA        Werner Lueg GER
1956        Ron Delany  IRL               Klaus Richtzenhain GER          John Landy AUS
1960        Herb Elliott AUS                  Michel Jazy FRA                István Rózsavölgyi  HUN
1964        Peter Snell NZL                 Josef Odlozil CZE                   John Davies NZL
1968        Kipchoge Keino KEN              Jim Ryun USA               Bodo Tümmler FRG
1972        Pekka Vasala FIN                  Kipchoge Keino KEN         Rodney Dixon NZL
1976        John Walker NZL                  Ivo van Damme BEL       Paul-Heinz Wellmann  FRG
1980        Sebastian Coe GBR               Jürgen Straub GDR           Steve Ovett GBR
1984        Sebastian Coe GBR                 Steve Cram GBR           José Abascal ESP
1988        Peter Rono KEN                    Peter Elliott GBR          Jens-Peter Herold GDR
1992        Fermin Cacho ESP             Rachid El Basir MAR        Mohamed Sulaiman QAT
1996        Noureddine Morceli ALG     Fermin Cacho ESP           Stephen Kipkorir KEN
2000        Noah Ngeny  KEN            Hicham el Guerrouj MAR         Bernard Lagat KEN
2004        Hicham el Guerrouj MAR      Bernard Lagat KEN            Rui Silva POR
2008        Rashid Ramzi BRN               Asbel Kiprop KEN                Nicholas Willis NZL

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110m Hurdles                                        
1896        Tom Curtis USA                Grantley Goulding GBR                   Alvin Kraenzlein USA
1900        John McLean  USA             Fred Moloney USA
                       Frederick Schule USA
1904        Thaddeus Shideler USA
           Lesley Ashburner USA
1906        Bob Leavitt USA                      Alfred Healey GBR
                   Vincent Duncker SAF
1908        Forrest Smithson USA               John Garrels USA
                      Arthur Shaw USA
1912        Fred Kelly USA                        James Wendell USA
                  Martin Hawkins USA
1920        Earl Thomson CAN                       Harold Barron USA
               Frederick Murray USA
1924        Dan Kinsey USA                        Sydney Atkinson SAF
               Sten Pettersson SWE
1928        Sydney Atkinson SAF              Stephen Anderson USA
               John Collier USA
1932        George Saling USA                Percy Beard USA
                       Donald Finlay GBR
1936        Forrest Towns USA                Donald Finlay GBR
                 Frederick Pollard USA
1948        William Porter  USA             Clyde Scott USA
                        Craig Dixon USA
1952        Harrison Dillard USA              Jack Davis  USA
                        Arthur Barnard USA
1956        Lee Calhoun USA                 Jack Davis USA
                         Joel Shankle USA
1960        Lee Calhoun USA                Willie May USA
                            Hayes Jones USA
1964        Hayes Jones USA                    Blain Lindgren USA
                  Anatoly Mikhaylov URS
1968        Willie Davenport USA                Ervin Hall USA
                      Eddy Ottoz ITA
1972        Rodney Milburn USA                  Guy Drut  FRA
                        Thomas Hill USA
1976        Guy Drut  FRA                            Alejandro Casañas CUB     
        Willie Davenport USA
1980        Thomas Munkelt GDR              Alejandro Casañas CUB
               Aleksandr Puchkov URS
1984        Roger Kingdom USA              Greg Foster USA
                         Arto Bryggare FIN
1988        Roger Kingdom USA               Colin Jackson GBR
                     Tonie Campbell USA
1992        Mark McCoy CAN                     Tony Dees USA                         Tony Jarrett GBR
/Jack Pierce USA
1996        Allen Johnson USA                    Mark Crear USA
                        Florian Schwarthoff GER
2000        Anier Garcia CUB                    Terrence Trammell USA
               Mark Crear USA
2004        Xiang Liu CHN                        Terrence Trammell USA
               Anier Garcia CUB
2008        Dayron Robles CUB                  David Payne USA                         Ladji Doucoure FRA

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200m                                      
1900        Walter Tewksbury USA                Norman Pritchard BIN               Stan Rowley AUS
1904        Archie Hahn USA                      Nate Cartmell USA
                  Bill Hogenson USA
1908        Robert Kerr CAN                      Robert Cloughen USA
              Nate Cartmell USA
1912        Ralph Craig USA                    Donald Lippincott USA
             Willie Applegarth GBR
1920        Allen Woodring USA              Charles Paddock USA
               Harry Edward GBR
1924        Jackson Scholz USA              Charles Paddock USA
              Eric Liddell GBR
1928        Percy Williams CAN             Walter Rangeley GBR
               Helmuth Körnig GER
1932        Eddie Tolan USA                George Simpson USA   
        Ralph Metcalfe USA
1936        Jesse Owens USA               Mack Robinson USA
               Tinus Osendarp NED
1948        Melvin Patton USA               Barney Ewell USA
               Lloyd LaBeach PAN
1952        Andy Stanfield USA             Thane Baker USA
               James Gathers USA
1956        Bobby Morrow USA             Andy Stanfield USA
              Thane Baker USA
1960        Livio Berruti  ITA               Les Carney USA
                    Abdoulaye Seye FRA
1964        Henry Carr USA                   Paul Drayton USA
               Edwin Roberts TRI
1968        Tommie Smith USA           Peter Norman AUS
            John Carlos USA
1972        Valery Borzov URS              Larry Black USA
               Pietro Mennea ITA
1976        Don Quarrie JAM              Millard Hampton USA
          Dwayne Evans USA
1980        Pietro Mennea  ITA           Allan Wells GBR
                 Don Quarrie JAM
1984        Carl Lewis USA                Kirk Baptiste USA
                Thomas Jefferson USA
1988        Joe DeLoach USA              Carl Lewis USA
                      Robson da Silva BRA
1992        Mike Marsh USA                 Frankie Fredericks NAM
       Michael Bates USA
1996        Michael Johnson USA         Frankie Fredericks NAM
        Ato Boldon TRI
2000        Konstantinos Kenteris  GRE   Darren Campbell GBR
        Ato Boldon TRI
2004        Shawn Crawford USA          Bernard Williams III USA
      Justin Gatlin USA
2008        Usain Bolt JAM                   Shawn Crawford USA              Walter Dix USA

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Decathlon                                             
1904        Tom Kiely IRL                      Adam Gunn USA                    Thomas Hare USA
1912        Jim Thorpe USA                 Hugo Wieslander SWE
               Charles Lomberg SWE
1920        Helge Løvland NOR             Brutus Hamilton USA
                Bertil Ohlson SWE
1924        Harold Osborn USA            Emerson Norton USA
                 Aleksander Klumberg EST
1928        Paavo Yrjölä FIN                Aki Järvinen FIN
                      Ken Doherty USA
1932        Jim Bausch USA                 Aki Järvinen FIN
                   Wolrad Eberle GER
1936        Glenn Morris USA               Bob Clark USA
                        Jack Parker USA
1948        Bob Mathias USA               Ignace Heinrich FRA
               Floyd Simmons USA
1952        Bob Mathias USA                Milt Campbell USA
                Floyd Simmons USA
1956        Milt Campbell USA               Rafer Johnson USA
              Vasily Kuznetsov URS
1960        Rafer Johnson USA             Chuang-Kwang Yang TPE
        Vasily Kuznetsov URS
1964        Willi Holdorf GER                  Rein Aun URS
                       Hans-Joachim Walde GER
1968        Bill Toomey USA                Hans-Joachim Walde FRG
         Kurt Bendlin FRG
1972        Nikolay Avilov URS              Leonid Litvinenko URS
                 Ryszard Katus POL
1976        Bruce Jenner USA              Guido Kratschmer FRG
                  Nikolay Avilov URS
1980        Daley Thompson GBR                 Yuri Kutsenko URS
               Sergey Zhelanov URS
1984        Daley Thompson GBR                Jürgen Hingsen FRG
        Siegfried Wentz FRG
1988        Christian Schenk GDR              Torsten Voss GDR
                  Dave Steen CAN
1992        Robert Zmelík CZR              Antonio Peñalver  ESP
             Dave Johnson USA
1996        Dan O'Brien USA             Frank Busemann GER
                 Tomás Dvorák CZR
2000        Erki Nool EST                     Roman Sebrle CZR
                 Chris Huffins USA
2004        Roman Sebrle CZR            Bryan Clay USA
                     Dmitriy Karpov KAZ
2008        Bryan Clay USA               Andrei Krauchanka BLR         Leonel Suarez CUB

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Pole Vault                                              
1896        Bill Hoyt  USA         Albert Tyler USA                Evangelos Damaskos/Ioannis Theodoropoulos GRE
1900        Irving Baxter USA          Meredith Colkett USA
              Flisa Andersen NOR
1904        Charles Dvorak USA         Leroy Samse USA
        Louis Wilkins USA
1906        Fernand Gonder FRA         Bruno Söderström SWE
        Edward Glover USA
1908        Ed Cook USA               Alfred Gilbert USA                  Ed Archibald CAN/
Bruno Söderström SWE
1912        Harry Babcock USA         Frank Nelson USA
                Marc Wright USA
1920        Frank Foss USA                   Henry Petersen DEN
        Edwin Myers USA
1924        Lee Barnes USA                  Glenn Graham USA
           Jim Brooker USA
1928        Sabin Carr USA               Bill Droegemuller USA
          Charles McGinnis USA
1932        Bill Miller USA                      Shuhei Nishida JPN
           George Jefferson USA
1936        Earle Meadows USA                Shuhei Nishida JPN
        Sueo Oe JPN
1948        Guinn Smith USA                 Erkki Kataja FIN
                   Bob Richards USA
1952        Bob Richards USA             Donald Laz USA
        Ragnar Lundberg SWE
1956        Bob Richards USA              Bob Gutowski  USA
       Georgios Roubanis GRE
1960        Don Bragg USA         Ronald Morris USA
1                 Eeles Landström  FIN
1964        Fred Hansen USA        Wolfgang Reinhardt GER
        Klaus Lehnertz GER
1968        Bob Seagren USA         Claus Schiprowski FRG
        Wolfgang Nordwig GDR
1972        Wolfgang Nordwig GDR         Bob Seagren USA
        Jan Johnson USA
1976        Tadeusz Slusarski POL        Antti Kalliomäki FIN
       David Roberts USA
1980        Wladyslaw Kozakiewicz POL        Konstantin Volkov URS
        Tadeusz Slusarski POL
1984        Pierre Quinon FRA         Mike Tully USA           Thierry Vigneron FRA
/Earl Bell USA
1988        Sergey Bubka URS        Radion Gataullin  URS
       Grigory Yegorov URS
1992        Maxim Tarasov URS         Igor Trandenkov URS
        Javier García ESP
1996        Jean Galfione FRA         Igor Trandenkov RUS
       Andrej Tiwontschik GER
2000        Nick Hysong USA         Lawrence Johnson USA
        Maxim Tarasov RUS
2004        Timothy Mack USA         Toby Stevenson USA
        Giuseppe Gibilisco ITA
2008        Steve Hooker AUS         Evgeny Lukyanenko RUS          Denys Yurchenko UKR

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4x100 relay                                            
1912        Willie Applegarth, Vic d'Arcy, David Jacobs, Henry Macintosh
1912        Knut Lindberg, Charles Luther, Ivan Möller,
Ture Persson

1920 Gold USA        Morris Kirksey,
Loren Murchison, Charles Paddock, Jackson Scholz
1920 Silver FRA       Emile Ali-Khan, René Lorain, René Mourlon,
René Tirard
1920 Bronze SWE        Agne Holmström, Sven Malm, William Petersson,
Nils Sandström

1924 Gold USA        Louis Clarke, Frank Hussey, Alfred LeConey,
Loren Murchison
1924 Silver GBR        Harold Abrahams, William Nichol, Walter Rangeley, Lancelot Royle
1924 Bronze NED        Jacob Boot, Henricus Broos, Jan de Vries, Marinus van den Berge

1928 Gold USA        Charles Borah, Jimmy Quinn, Hank Russell,
Frank Wykoff 
1928 Silver GER        Richard Corts, Hubert Houben, Helmuth Körnig, Georg Lammers
1928 Bronze GBR        Cyril Gill, Jack London, Walter Rangeley, Edward Smouha

1932 Gold USA       Hector Dyer, Robert Kiesel, Emmett Toppino,
Frank Wykoff
1932 Silver GER    Erich Borchmeyer, Fritz Hendrix, Arthur Jonath, Helmuth Körnig
1932 Bronze KIT        Giuseppe Castelli, Ruggero Maregatti, Gabriele Salviati, Edgardo Toetti

1936 Gold USA       Foy Draper, Ralph Metcalfe, Jesse Owens,
Frank Wykoff
1936 Silver KIT        Gianni Caldana, Tullio Gonnelli, Orazio Mariani, Elio Ragni
1936 Bronze GER    Erich Borchmeyer, Erwin Gillmeister, Gerd Hornberger, Wilhelm Leichum

1948 Gold USA        Harrison Dillard, Barney Ewell, Melvin Patton,
Lorenzo Wright
1948 Silver GBR        John Archer, John Gregory, Kenneth Jones, Alistair McCorquodale
1948 Bronze ITA      
Carlo Monti, Enrico Perucconi, Antonio Siddi,
Michele Tito

1952 Gold USA        Harrison Dillard, Lindy Remigino, Dean Smith,
Andy Stanfield
1952 Silver URS       Levan Kalyaev, Levan Sanadse, Vladimir Sukharyev, Boris Tokarev
1952 Bronze HUN        György Csányi, Béla Goldoványi, Géza Varasdi, László Zarándi

1956 Gold USA       Thane Baker, Leamon King, Bobby Morrow,
Ira Murchison
1956 Silver URS        Leonid Bartenev, Yuri Konovalov, Vladimir Sukharyev, Boris Tokarev
1956 Bronze GER       Heinz Fütterer, Manfred Germar, Lothar Knörzer, Leo Pohl

1960 Gold GER        Bernd Cullmann, Armin Hary, Martin Lauer,
Walter Mahlendorf
1960 Silver URS        Leonid Bartenev, Yuri Konovalov, Gusman Kosanov, Edvins Ozolins
1960 Bronze GBR        David Jones, Peter Radford, David Segal, Neville Whitehead

1964 Gold USA        Gerald Ashworth, Paul Drayton, Bob Hayes,
Richard Stebbins
1964 Silver POL       Marian Dudziak, Marian Foik, Wieslaw Maniak, Andrzej Zieliwski
1964 Bronze FRA        Jocelyn Delecour, Paul Genevay, Claude Piquemal, Bernard Laidebeur

1968 Gold USA        Charlie Greene, Jim Hines, Melvin Pender, Ronnie-Ray Smith
1968 Silver CUB        Enrique Figuerola, Pablo Montes, Juan Morales, Hermes Ramirez
1968 Bronze FRA        Roger Bambuck, Jocelyn Delecour, Gérard Fénouil, Claude Piquemal

1972 Gold USA        Larry Black, Eddie Hart, Robert Taylor,
Gerald Tinker
1972 Silver URS        Valery Borzov, Aleksandr Kornelyuk, Vladimir Lovetsky, Juris Silovs
1972 Bronze FRG        Klaus Ehl, Jobst Hirscht, Karlheinz Klotz, Gerhard Wucherer

1976 Gold USA        Harvey Glance, Millard Hampton, John Jones,
Steven Riddick
1976 Silver GDR        Manfred Kokot, Klaus-Dieter Kurrat, Jörg Pfeifer, Alexander Thieme
1976 Bronze URS        Aleksandr Aksinin, Valery Borzov, Nikolay Kolesnikov, Juris Silovs

1980 Gold URS        Aleksandr Aksinin, Vladimir Muravyov, Andrey Prokofyev,
Nikolay Sidorov
1980 Silver POL        Leszek Dunecki, Zenon Licznerski, Marian Woronin, Krzysztof Zwoliwski
1980 Bronze FRA        Pascal Barré, Patrick Barré, Hermann Panzo, Antoine Richard

1984 Gold USA        Ron Brown, Sam Graddy, Carl Lewis,
Calvin Smith
1984 Silver JAM        Al Lawrence, Greg Meghoo, Don Quarrie, Ray Stewart
1984 Bronze CAN        Sterling Hinds, Ben Johnson, Tony Sharpe, Desai Williams

1988 Gold URS        Viktor Bryzgin, Vladimir Krylov, Vladimir Muravyov,
Vitaly Savin
1988 Silver GBR        Elliott Bunney, Linford Christie, Mike McFarlane, John Regis
1988 Bronze FRA        Bruno Marie-Rose, Max Morinière, Gilles Quénéhervé, Daniel Sangouma

1992 Gold USA        Leroy Burrell, Carl Lewis, Mike Marsh,
Dennis Mitchell
1992 Silver NGR        Olapade Adeniken, Davidson Ezinwa, Chidi Imoh, Oluyemi Kayode
1992 Bronze CUB        Jorge Aguilera, Joel Isasi, Joel Lamela, Andrés Simón

1996 Gold CAN        Donovan Bailey, Robert Esmie, Glenroy Gilbert,
Bruny Surin
1996 Silver USA        Jon Drummond, Tim Harden, Mike Marsh, Dennis Mitchell
1996 Bronze BRA        Robson da Silva, Edson Ribeiro, André Silva, Arnaldo Silva

2000 Gold USA        Jon Drummond, Maurice Greene, Brian Lewis,
Bernard Williams III
2000 Silver BRA        Claudinei da Silva, Vicente Lima, Edson Ribeiro, André Silva
2000 Bronze CUB        Jose Angel Cesar, Ivan Garcia, Freddy Mayola, Luis Alberto Perez

2004 Gold GBR        Darren Campbell, Marlon Devonish, Jason Gardener,
Mark Lewis-Francis
2004 Silver USA        Shawn Crawford, Justin Gatlin, Maurice Greene, Coby Miller
2004 Bronze NGR        Deji Aliu, Aaron Egbele, Uchenna Emedolu, Olusoji Fasuba

2008 Gold JAM        Dwight Thomas, Michael Frater, Nesta Carter, Asafa Powell,
Usain Bolt
2008 Silver BEL      
Keston Bledman, Marc Burns, Aaron Armstrong, Richard Thompson,
Emmanuel Callender
2008 Bronze JPN       Naoki Tsukahara, Shingo Suetsugu, Shinji Takahira,
Nobuharu Asahara

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Javelin                                   
1908        Eric Lemming SWE         Arne Halse NOR       Otto Nilsson SWE
1912        Eric Lemming SWE         Juho Saaristo FIN
     Mór Kóczán HUN
1920        Jonni Myyrä FIN        Urho Peltonen FIN
       Pekka Johansson-Jaale FIN
1924        Jonni Myyrä FIN         Gunnar Lindström SWE
        Eugene Oberst USA
1928        Erik Lundkvist SWE         Béla Szepes HUN
       Olav Sunde NOR
1932        Matti Järvinen FIN         Matti Sippala FIN
        Eino Penttilä FIN
1936        Gerhard Stöck GER        Yrjö Nikkanen FIN
        Kalervo Toivonen FIN
1948        Kaj Rautavaara FIN         Steve Seymour USA
       József Várszegi HUN
1952        Cyrus Young USA         Bill Miller USA
        Toivo Hyytiäinen FIN
1956        Egil Danielsen NOR         Janusz Sidlo POL
        Viktor Tsybulenko URS
1960        Viktor Tsybulenko URS         Walter Krüger GER
       Gergely Kulcsár HUN
1964        Pauli Nevala FIN         Gergely Kulcsár HUN
        Janis Lusis URS
1968        Janis Lusis URS         Jorma Kinnunen FIN
        Gergely Kulcsár HUN
1972        Klaus Wolfermann FRG        Janis Lusis URS
        Bill Schmidt USA
1976        Miklós Németh HUN        Hannu Siitonen FIN
        Gheorghe Megelea ROM
1980        Dainis Kula URS         Aleksandr Makarov URS
        Wolfgang Hanisch GDR
1984        Arto Härkönen FIN         David Ottley GBR
        Kenth Eldebrink SWE
1988        Tapio Korjus FIN         Jan Zelezny CZE
        Seppo Räty FIN
1992        Jan Zelezny CZR         Seppo Räty FIN
        Steve Backley GBR
1996        Jan Zelezny CZR         Steve Backley GBR
       Seppo Räty FIN
2000        Jan Zelezny CZR        Steve Backley GBR
        Sergey Makarov RUS
2004        Andreas Thorkildsen NOR         Vadims Vasilevskis LAT
        Sergey Makarov RUS
2008        Andreas Thorkildsen  NOR          Ainars Kovals  LAT               Tero Pitkamaki  FIN

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800m                                      
1896        Teddy Flack AUS         Nándor Dáni HUN         Demitrios Golemis GRE
1900        Alfred Tysoe GBR         John Cregan USA
        Dave Hall USA
1904        James Lightbody USA         Howard Valentine USA
        Emil Breitkreutz USA
1906        Paul Pilgrim USA         James Lightbody USA
        Wyndham Halswelle GBR
1908        Melvin Sheppard USA         Emilio Lunghi KIT
        Hanns Braun DEU
1912        Ted Meredith USA        Melvin Sheppard USA
        Ira Davenport USA
1920        Albert Hill GBR         Earl Eby USA
        Bevil Rudd SAF
1924        Douglas Lowe GBR         Paul Martin SUI
        Schuyler Enck USA
1928        Douglas Lowe GBR        Erik Byléhn SWE
      Hermann Engelhard GER
1932        Thomas Hampson GBR      Alexander Wilson CAN
        Philip Edwards CAN
1936        John Woodruff USA        Mario Lanzi KIT
        Philip Edwards CAN
1948        Mal Whitfield USA         Arthur Wint JAM
        Marcel Hansenne FRA
1952        Mal Whitfield USA         Arthur Wint JAM
        Heinz Ulzheimer GER
1956        Tom Courtney USA         Derek Johnson GBR
        Audun Boysen NOR
1960        Peter Snell NZL        Roger Moens BEL
           George Kerr JAM
1964        Peter Snell NZL         William Crothers CAN
       Wilson Kiprugut KEN
1968        Ralph Doubell AUS         Wilson Kiprugut KEN
       Thomas Farrell USA
1972        Dave Wottle USA         Yevgeny Arzhanov URS
        Mike Boit KEN
1976        Alberto Juantorena CUB         Ivo van Damme BEL
       Richard Wohlhuter USA
1980        Steve Ovett GBR         Sebastian Coe GBR
       Nikolay Kirov URS
1984        Joaquim Cruz BRA         Sebastian Coe GBR
        Earl Jones USA
1988        Paul Ereng KEN         Joaquim Cruz BRA
       Saïd Aouita MAR
1992        William Tanui KEN        Nixon Kiprotich KEN
        Johnny Gray USA
1996        Vebjørn Rodal NOR        Hezekiel Sepeng RSA
        Fred Onyancha KEN
2000        Nils Schumann GER         Wilson Kipketer DEN
        Aissa Djabir Said-Guerni ALG
2004        Yuriy Borzakovskiy RUS         Mbulaeni Mulaudzi RSA
        Wilson Kipketer DEN
2008        Wilfred Bungei  KEN           Ismail Ahmed Ismail  SUD        Alfred Yego  KEN

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5,000m                                   
1912        Hannes Kolehmainen FIN         Jean Bouin FRA         George Hutson GBR
1920        Joseph Guillemot FRA        Paavo Nurmi FIN
        Erik Backman SWE
1924        Paavo Nurmi FIN        Ville Ritola  FIN
        Edvin Wide SWE
1928        Ville Ritola FIN        Paavo Nurmi FIN
        Edvin Wide SWE
1932        Lauri Lehtinen FIN         Ralph Hill USA
        Lauri Virtanen FIN
1936        Gunnar Höckert FIN        Lauri Lehtinen FIN
       Henry Jonsson SWE
1948        Gaston Reiff BEL        Emil Zátopek CZE
        Wim Slijkhuis NED
1952        Emil Zátopek CZE       Alain Mimoun FRA
        Herbert Schade GER
1956        Vladimir Kuts URS       Gordon Pirie  GBR
        Derek Ibbotson GBR
1960        Murray Halberg NZL        Hans Grodotzki GER
        Kazimierz Zimny POL
1964        Bob Schul USA        Harald Norpoth GER
        Bill Dellinger USA
1968        Mohamed Gammoudi TUN        Kipchoge Keino KEN
        Naftali Temu KEN
1972        Lasse Virén FIN       Mohamed Gammoudi TUN
      Ian Stewart GBR
1976        Lasse Virén FIN       Dick Quax NZL
        Klaus-Peter Hildenbrand FRG
1980        Miruts Yifter ETH        Suleiman Nyambui TAN
        Kaarlo Maaninka FIN
1984        Saïd Aouita MAR        Markus Ryffel SUI
       Antonio Leitão POR
1988        John Ngugi KEN        Dieter Baumann FRG
       Hansjörg Kunze GDR
1992        Dieter Baumann GER       Paul Bitok KEN
        Fita Bayissa ETH
1996        Venuste Niyongabo BDI        Paul Bitok KEN
        Khalid Boulami MAR
2000        Millon Wolde ETH       Ali Saidi-Sief ALG
      Brahim Lahlafi MAR
2004        Hicham el Guerrouj MAR        Kenenisa Bekele ETH
        Eliud Kipchoge KEN
2008        Kenenisa Bekele  ETH            Eliud Kipchoge  KEN             Edwin Cheruiyot Soi  KEN

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4x400 relay                                            
1908 Gold USA        Nate Cartmell, Bill Hamilton, Melvin Sheppard, John Taylor
1908 Silver DEU        Hanns Braun, Hans Eicke, Aute Hoffmann, Otto Trieloff
1908 Bronze HUN        Ödön Bodor, József Nagy, Pál Simon,
Frigyes Wiesner

1912 Gold USA        Edward Lindberg, Ted Meredith, Charles Reidpath,
Melvin Sheppard
1912 Silver FRA        Pierre Failliot, Charles Lelong, Charles Poulenard, Robert Schurrer
1912 Bronze GBR        Ernest Henley, George Nicol, Cyril Seedhouse, James Soutter

1920 Gold GBR        John Ainsworth-Davis, Guy Butler, Cecil Griffiths,
Robert Lindsay
1920 Silver SAF        Harry Davel, Clarence Oldfield, Jack Oosterlaak, Bevil Rudd
1920 Bronze FRA        Géo André, Maurice Delvart, André Devaux, Gaston Féry

1924 Gold USA        Con Cochran, Alan Helffrich, Oliver MacDonald,
Bill Stevenson
1924 Silver SWE        Erik Byléhn, Nils Engdahl, Artur Svensson, Gustav Weijnarth
1924 Bronze GBR        Guy Butler, George Renwick, Richard Ripley, Edward Toms

1928 Gold USA       Frederick Alderman, George Baird, Raymond Barbuti,
Bud Spencer
1928 Silver GER        Hermann Engelhard, Richard Krebs, Otto Neumann, Harry Storz
1928 Bronze CAN        James Ball, Philip Edwards, Stanley Glover, Alexander Wilson

1932 Gold USA        Edgar Ablowich, Bill Carr, Ivan Fuqua,
Karl Warner
1932 Silver GBR        Lord David Burghley, Thomas Hampson, Godfrey Rampling, Crew Stoneley
1932 Bronze CAN        James Ball, Philip Edwards, Raymond Lewis, Alexander Wilson

1936 Gold GBR       Godfrey Brown, Godfrey Rampling, William Roberts,
Freddie Wolff
1936 Silver USA       Harold Cagle, Al Fitch, Edward O'Brien, Robert Young
1936 Bronze GER        Helmut Hamann, Rudi Harbig, Harry Voigt, Friedrich von Stülpnagel

1948 Gold USA        Clifford Bourland, Roy Cochran, Arthur Harnden,
Mal Whitfield
1948 Silver FRA        Robert Chef d'hôtel, Jean Kerebel, Jacques Lunis, François Schewetta
1948 Bronze SWE        Folke Alnevik, Rune Larsson, Kurt Lundqvist, Lars Wolfbrandt

1952 Gold JAM        Leslie Laing, Herb McKenley, George Rhoden,
Arthur Wint 
1952 Silver USA        Gene Cole, Ollie Matson, Charles Moore, Mal Whitfield
1952 Bronze GER        Hans Geister, Karl-Friedrich Haas, Günther Steines, Heinz Ulzheimer

1956 Gold USA       Tom Courtney, Charles Jenkins, Lou Jones,
Jesse Mashburn
1956 Silver AUS       Graham Gipson, Kevan Gosper, Leon Gregory, David Lean
1956 Bronze GBR    Peter Higgins, Derek Johnson, John Salisbury, Michael Wheeler

1960 Gold USA        Glenn Davis, Otis Davis, Jack Yerman,
Earl Young
1960 Silver GER        Johannes Kaiser, Carl Kaufmann, Manfred Kinder, Jochen Reske
1960 Bronze BWI        Keith Gardner, George Kerr, Malcolm Spence, James Wedderburn

1964 Gold USA       Henry Carr, Ollan Cassell, Michael Larrabee,
Ulis Williams
1964 Silver GBR       Robbie Brightwell, John Cooper, Timothy Graham, Adrian Metcalfe
1964 Bronze TRI        Kent Bernard, Wendell Mottley, Edwin Roberts, Edwin Skinner

1968 Gold USA        Lee Evans, Ron Freeman, Larry James,
Vincent Matthews
1968 Silver KEN        Charles Asati, Naftali Bon, Hezekiah Nyamau, Daniel Rudisha
1968 Bronze FRG        Gerhard Hennige, Martin Jellinghaus, Manfred Kinder, Helmar Müller

1972 Gold KEN        Charles Asati, Hezekiah Nyamau, Robert Ouko,
Julius Sang
1972 Silver GBR        David Hemery, David Jenkins, Alan Pascoe, Martin Reynolds
1972 Bronze FRA        Gilles Bertould, Jacques Carette, Francis Kerbiriou, Roger Vélasquez

1976 Gold USA       Benjamin Brown, Herman Frazier, Fred Newhouse,
Maxie Parks
1976 Silver POL        Zbigniew Jaremski, Jerzy Pietrzyk, Ryszard Podlas, Jan Werner 
1976 Bronze FRG        Bernd Herrmann, Franz-Peter Hofmeister, Lothar Krieg, Harald Schmid

1980 Gold URS        Nikolay Chernetsky, Mikhail Linge, Viktor Markin,
Remigijus Valiulis
1980 Silver GDR        Volker Beck, Andreas Knebel, Frank Schaffer, Klaus Thiele
1980 Bronze ITA        Stefano Malinverni, Pietro Mennea, Roberto Tozzi, Mauro Zuliani

1984 Gold USA        Ray Armstead, Alonzo Babers, Antonio McKay,
Sunder Nix
1984 Silver GBR        Kriss Akabusi, Todd Bennett, Phil Brown, Garry Cook
1984 Bronze NGR        Innocent Egbunike, Rotimi Peters, Moses Ugbusie, Sunday Uti

1988 Gold USA       Danny Everett, Steve Lewis, Butch Reynolds,
Kevin Robinzine
1988 Silver JAM        Bert Cameron, Howard Davis, Winthrop Graham, Trevor Grahemm Devon Morris,
1988 Bronze FRG     Norbert Dobeleit, Edgar Itt, Ralf Lübke, Jörg Vaihinger

1992 Gold USA        Michael Johnson, Steve Lewis, Andrew Valmon,
Quincy Watts
1992 Silver CUB        Roberto Hernández, Héctor Herrera, Lázaro Martínez, Norberto Téllez
1992 Bronze GBR        Kriss Akabusi, Roger Black, David Grindley, John Regis

1996 Gold USA        Alvin Harrison, Anthuan Maybank, Derek Mills,
Lamont Smith
1996 Silver GBR        Jamie Baulch, Roger Black, Mark Richardson, Iwan Thomas
1996 Bronze JAM        Davian Clarke, Greg Haughton, Roxbert Martin, Michael McDonald

2000 Gold USA        Alvin Harrison, Calvin Harrison, Michael Johnson,
Antonio Pettigrew
2000 Silver NGR        Sunday Bada, Clement Chukwu, Jude Monye, Enefiok Udo-Obong
2000 Bronze JAM        Michael Blackwood, Greg Haughton, Danny McFarlane, Chris Williams

2004 Gold USA       Derrick Brew, Otis Harris Jr, Jeremy Wariner,
Darold Williamson
2004 Silver AUS        Patrick Dwyer, Clinton Hill, Mark Ormrod, John Steffensen
2004 Bronze NGR        Musa Audu, James Godday, Enefiok Udo-Obong, Saul Weigopwa

2008 Gold USA        David Nevelle, Kerron Clement, Regi Witherspoon, Angelo Taylor, LaShawn Merritt,
Jeremy Wariner
2008 Silver BAH      
Michael Mathieu, Avard Moncur, Ramon Miller, Andrae Williams, Andretti Bain,
Christopher Brown
2008 Bronze RUS       
Maksim Dyldin, Vladislav Frolov, Anton Kokorin,
Denis Alexeev

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Triple Jump                                           
1896        James Connolly USA         Alexandre Tuffère FRA         Ioannis Persakis GRE
1900        Meyer Prinstein USA         James Connolly USA
        Lewis Sheldon USA
1904        Meyer Prinstein USA         Fred Englehardt USA
        Robert Stangland USA
1906        Peter O'Connor GBR        Con Leahy GBR
        Thomas Cronan USA
1908        Timothy Ahearne GBR         Garfield MacDonald CAN
        Edvard Larsen NOR
1912        Gustaf Lindblom SWE         Georg Åberg SWE
       Erik Almlöf SWE
1920        Ville Tuulos FIN         Folke Janssen SWE
        Erik Almlöf  SWE
1924        Nick Winter  AUS         Luis Brunetto ARG
       Ville Tuulos FIN
1928        Mikio Oda JPN         Levi Casey USA
        Ville Tuulos FIN
1932        Chuhei Nambu JPN        Eric Svensson SWE
        Kenkichi Oshima JPN
1936        Naoto Tajima JPN        Masao Harada JPN
        Jack Metcalfe AUS
1948        Arne Åhman SWE         George Avery AUS
        Ruhi Sarialp TUR
1952        Adhemar Ferreira da Silva BRA        Leonid Shcherbakov URS
       Arnoldo Devonish VEN
1956        Adhemar Ferreira da Silva BRA         Vilhjálmur Einarsson ISL
        Vitold Kreyer URS
1960        Józef Szmidt POL         Vladimir Goryaev URS
        Vitold Kreyer URS
1964        Józef Szmidt POL         Oleg Fedoseyev URS
       Viktor Kravchenko URS
1968        Viktor Saneyev URS         Nelson Prudêncio BRA
        Giuseppe Gentile ITA
1972        Viktor Saneyev URS        Jörg Drehmel GDR
        Nelson Prudêncio BRA
1976        Viktor Saneyev URS         James Butts USA
        João Carlos de Oliveiro BRA
1980        Jaak Uudmäe URS         Viktor Saneyev URS
        João Carlos de Oliveiro BRA
1984        Al Joyner USA         Mike Conley USA
        Keith Connor GBR
1988        Khristo Markov BUL         Igor Lapshin URS
        Aleksandr Kovalenko URS
1992        Mike Conley USA         Charles Simpkins USA
        Frank Rutherford BAH
1996        Kenny Harrison USA         Jonathan Edwards GBR
       Yoelbi Quesada CUB
2000        Jonathan Edwards GBR         Yoel Garcia CUB
        Denis Kapustin RUS
2004        Christian Olsson SWE         Marian Oprea ROM
        Danila Burkenya RUS
2008        Nelson Evora  POR       Phillips Idowu  GBR           Leevan Sands  BAH

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Marathon                                               
1896        Spiridon Louis GRE         Charilaos Vasilakos GRE        Gyula Kellner HUN
1900        Michel Théato LUX        Emile Champion FRA
        Ernst Fast SWE
1904        Thomas Hicks USA         Albert Coray FRA
             Arthur Newton USA
1906        William Sherring CAN         John Svanberg SWE
        William Frank USA
1908        John Hayes USA         Charles Hefferon SAF
        Joe Forshaw USA
1912        Kenneth McArthur SAF         Christian Gitsham SAF
        Gaston Strobino USA
1920        Hannes Kolehmainen FIN         Jüri Lossmann EST
        Valerio Arri KIT
1924        Albin Stenroos FIN         Romeo Bertini KIT
        Clarence DeMar USA
1928        Bouguerra El Quafi FRA       Manuel Plaza Reyes CHI
        Martti Marttelin FIN
1932        Juan Carlos Zabala ARG        Samuel Ferris GBR
        Armas Toivonen FIN
1936        Kee-Chung Sohn JPN         Ernie Harper GBR
        Sung-Yong Nam JPN
1948        Delfo Cabrera ARG         Thomas Richards GBR
      Etienne Gailly BEL
1952        Emil Zátopek CZE         Reinaldo Gorno ARG
        Gustav Jansson SWE
1956        Alain Mimoun FRA         Franjo Mihalic YUG
       Veikko Karvonen FIN
1960        Abebe Bikila ETH        Rhadi Ben Abdesselam MAR
        Barry Magee NZL
1964        Abebe Bikila ETH        Basil Heatley GBR
        Kokichi Tsuburaya JPN
1968        Mamo Wolde ETH         Kenji Kimihara JPN
      Michael Ryan NZL
1972        Frank Shorter  USA       Karel Lismont BEL
        Mamo Wolde ETH
1976        Waldemar Cierpinski GDR      Frank Shorter USA
        Karel Lismont BEL
1980        Waldemar Cierpinski GDR        Gerard Nijboer NED
        Satymkul Dzhumanazarov URS
1984        Carlos Sousa Lopes POR        John Treacy IRL
       Charles Spedding GBR
1988        Gelindo Bordin ITA      Douglas  KEN
       Ahmed Salah DJI
1992        Young-cho Hwang KOR      Koichi Morishita JPN
       Stephan Freigang GER
1996        Josia Thugwane RSA       Bong-Ju Lee KOR
        Erick Wainaina KEN
2000        Gezahgne Abera ETH        Erick Wainaina KEN
      Tesfaye Tola ETH
2004        Stefano Baldini ITA        Mebrahtom Keflezighi USA
       Vanderlei Lima BRA
2008         Samuel Wansiru KEN        Jaouad Ghirab  MAR        Kebede Tsegay  ETH

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400m                                      
1896        Tom Burke USA         Herbert Jamison USA         Charles Gmelin GBR
1900        Maxey Long USA        William Holland USA
        Ernst Schultz DEN
1904        Harry Hillman USA        Frank Waller USA     
     Herman Groman USA
1906        Paul Pilgrim USA        Wyndham Halswelle GBR
        Nigel Barker AUS
1908        Wyndham Halswelle GBR
1912        Charles Reidpath USA       Hanns Braun DEU
        Edward Lindberg USA
1920        Bevil Rudd SAF         Guy Butler GBR
        Nils Engdahl SWE
1924        Eric Liddell GBR        Horatio Fitch USA
      Guy Butler GBR
1928        Raymond Barbuti USA            James Ball CAN
        Joachim Büchner GER
1932        Bill Carr USA             Ben Eastman USA         
        Alexander Wilson CAN
1936        Archie Williams USA      Godfrey Brown GBR
        James LuValle USA
1948        Arthur Wint JAM        Herb McKenley JAM
        Mal Whitfield USA
1952        George Rhoden JAM        Herb McKenley JAM
        Ollie Matson USA
1956        Charles Jenkins USA      Karl-Friedrich Haas GER        Voitto Hellstén FIN/
Ardalion Ignatyev URS
1960        Otis Davis USA         Carl Kaufmann GER
       Malcolm Spence SAF
1964        Michael Larrabee USA         Wendell Mottley TRI
      Andrzej Badewski POL
1968        Lee Evans USA         Larry James USA
        Ron Freeman USA
1972        Vincent Matthews USA         Wayne Collett USA
       Julius Sang KEN
1976        Alberto Juantorena CUB         Fred Newhouse USA
        Herman Frazier USA
1980        Viktor Markin URS         Rick Mitchell AUS
        Frank Schaffer GDR
1984        Alonzo Babers USA         Gabriel Tiacoh CIV
       Antonio McKay USA
1988        Steve Lewis USA         Butch Reynolds USA
        Danny Everett USA
1992        Quincy Watts USA         Steve Lewis USA
        Samson Kitur KEN
1996        Michael Johnson USA       Roger Black GBR
        Davis Kamoga UGA
2000        Michael Johnson USA         Alvin Harrison USA
        Greg Haughton JAM
2004        Jeremy Wariner USA         Otis Harris Jr USA
           Derrick Brew USA
2008        LaShawn Merritt  USA        Jeremy Wariner  USA           David Neville  USA

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Women's 10,000m                                 
1988        Olga Bondarenko URS         Elizabeth McColgan GBR         Yelena Zhupiyeva URS
1992        Derartu Tulu ETH                Elana Meyer RSA
                      Lynn Jennings USA
1996        Fernanda Ribeiro POR            Junxia Wang CHN
                  Gete Wami ETH
2000        Derartu Tulu ETH                     Gete Wami ETH
                   Fernanda Ribeiro POR
2004        Huina Xing CHN                   Ejigayehu Dibaba ETH
                   Derartu Tulu ETH
2008        Tirunseh Dibaba ETH               Elvan Abeylegesse TUR
                 Shalane Flanagan USA
2012    Tirunesh Dibaba ETH             Sally Kipyego KEN                  Vivian Dheruiyot KEN

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Heptathlon                                            
1984        Glynis Nunn AUS                           Jackie Joyner-Kersee USA              Sabine Everts-Braun FRG
1988        Jackie Joyner-Kersee USA                    Sabine John GDR
                     Anke Behmer GDR
1992        Jackie Joyner-Kersee USA                 Irina Belova URS
                        Sabine Everts-Braun GER
1996        Ghada Shouaa SYR                     Natasha Sazanovich BLR
                  Denise Lewis GBR
2000        Denise Lewis GBR                      Yelena Prokhorova RUS
                    Natasha Sazanovich BLR
2004        Carolina Kluft SWE                         Austra Skujyte LTU
                      Kelly Sotherton GBR
2008        Nataliia Dobrynska UKR              Lyudmila Blonska UKR
                     Hyleas Fountain USA

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Women's Marathon                                     
1984        Joan Benoit USA                   Grete Waitz NOR                Rosa Mota POR
1988        Rosa Mota POR                    Lisa Martin AUS
                  Kathrin Dörre GDR
1992        Valentina Yegorova URS         Yuko Arimori JPN
            Lorraine Moller NZL
1996        Fatuma Roba ETH               Valentina Yegorova RUS
      Yuko Arimori JPN
2000        Naoko Takahashi  JPN          Lidia Simon ROM
              Joyce Chepchumba KEN
2004        Mizuki Noguchi JPN            Catherine Ndereba KEN
    Deena Kastor USA
2008        Constantina Tomescu ROM   Catherine Ndereba KEN     
Chunxiu Zhou CHN

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Women's 3,000m Steeplechase
2008           Gulnara Galkina-Samitova RUS           Eunice Jepkorir KEN         Ekaterina Volkova RUS

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Triple Jump                                           
1996        Inessa Kravets UKR                    Inna Lasovskaya RUS               Sarka Kasparková CZR
2000        Tereza Marinova BUL               Tatyana Lebedeva RUS
           Olena Hovorova  UKR
2004        Francoise Mbango Etone CMR   Hrysopiyi Devetzi GRE
           Tatyana Lebedeva RUS
2008        Francoise Mbango Etone CMR   Tatyana Lebedeva RUS
         Hrysopiyi Devetzi GRE

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100m                                      
1928        Elizabeth Robinson USA              Fanny Rosenfeld CAN            Ethel Smith CAN
1932        Stanislawa Walasiewicz POL         Hilda Strike CAN
                    Wilhelmina Von Bremen USA
1936        Helen Stephens USA              Stanislawa Walasiewicz POL
       Käthe Krauß GER
1948        Fanny Blankers-Koen NED              Dorothy Manley GBR
         Shirley Strickland AUS
1952        Marjorie Jackson AUS                    Daphne Hasenjager SAF
      Shirley Strickland AUS
1956        Betty Cuthbert AUS                    Christa Stubnick GER
             Marlene Mathews AUS
1960        Wilma Rudolph USA                     Dorothy Hyman GBR
             Giuseppina Leone ITA
1964        Wyomia Tyus USA                        Edith McGuire USA
              Ewa Klobukowska POL
1968        Wyomia Tyus USA                         Barbara Ferrell USA
             Irena Szewinska POL
1972        Renate Stecher GDR                     Raelene Boyle AUS
                 Silvia Chivás CUB
1976        Annegret Richter FRG                   Renate Stecher GDR
                  Inge Helten FRG
1980        Lyudmila Kondratyeva URS        Marlies Göhr-Oelsner GDR
      Ingrid Lange-Auerswald GDR
1984        Evelyn Ashford USA                    Alice Brown USA
                     Merlene Ottey-Page JAM
1988        Florence Griffith-Joyner USA      Evelyn Ashford USA
                  Heike Drechsler GDR
1992        Gail Devers USA                         Juliet Cuthbert JAM
                   Irina Privalova URS
1996        Gail Devers USA                        Merlene Ottey-Page JAM
           Gwen Torrence USA
2000        Marion Jones USA                     Ekaterini Thanou GRE
             Tanya Lawrence JAM
2004        Yuliya Nesterenko BLR                Lauryn Williams USA
               Veronica Campbell JAM
2008        Shelly Ann-Fraser JAM                Sherone Simpson JAM               Kerron Stewart JAM
2012     Shelley Fraser JAM         Carmelita Jeter USA            Veronica Campbell JAM

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Discus                                   
1928        Halina Konopacka POL         Lillian Copeland USA         Ruth Svedberg SWE
1932        Lillian Copeland USA              Ruth Osborn USA
           Jadwiga Wajsówna POL
1936        Gisela Mauermayer GER        Jadwiga Wajsówna POL
        Paula Mollenhauer GER
1948        Micheline Ostermeyer FRA        Edera Gentile-Cordiale ITA
        Jacqueline Mazéas FRA
1952        Nina Ponomareva-Romashkova URS       Yelizaveta Bagryantseva URS
        Nina Dumbadze URS
1956        Olga Fikotová CZE                  Irina Beglyakova URS
        Nina Ponomareva-Romashkova URS
1960        Nina Ponomareva-Romashkova URS        Tamara Press URS
        Lia Manoliu ROM
1964        Tamara Press URS                  Ingrid Lotz GER
       Lia Manoliu ROM
1968        Lia Manoliu ROM               Liesel Westermann FRG
        Jolán Kleiber HUN
1972        Faina Melnik URS         Argentina Menis ROM
       Vasilka Stoeva BUL
1976        Evelin Jahl-Schlaak  GDR         Maria Petkova-Vergova BUL
       Gabriele Hinzmann GDR
1980        Evelin Jahl-Schlaak  GDR        Maria Petkova-Vergova BUL
        Tatyana Lesovaya URS
1984        Ria Stalman NED                  Leslie Deniz USA
        Florenta Craciunescu ROM
1988        Martina Hellmann GDR        Diana Gansky GDR
        Tsvetanka Khristova BUL
1992        Maritza Martén CUB            Tsvetanka Khristova BUL
        Daniela Costian AUS
1996        Ilke Wyludda GER              Natalya Sadova RUS
           Elya Zvereva BLR
2000        Elya Zvereva BLR              Anastasia Kelesidou GRE
        Irina Yatchenko BLR
2004        Natalya Sadova RUS        Anastasia Kelesidou GRE
        Irina Yatchenko BLR
2008        Stephanie Brown-Trafton USA            Yarelys Barrios CUB
              Olena Antonova UKR
2012         Sandra Perkovic CRO             Darya Pishchalnikova RUS             Li Yanfeng CHN

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Pole Vault                                              
2000        Stacy Dragila USA             Tatiana Grigorieva AUS           Vala Flosadottir ISL
2004        Yelena Isinbayeva RUS         Svetlana Feofanova RUS
      Anna Rogowska POL
2008        Yelena Isinbayeva RUS         Jennifer Stuczynski USA
         Svetlana Feofanova RUS

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800m                                      
1928        Lina Radke GER        Kinue Hitomi  JPN         Inga Gentzel SWE
1960        Lyudmila Shevtsova URS        Brenda Jones AUS
        Ursula Donath GER
1964        Ann Packer GBR         Maryvonne Dupureur FRA
        Marise Chamberlain NZL
1968        Madeline Manning-Jackson USA        Ileana Silai ROM
       Maria Gommers NED
1972        Hildegard Falck FRG       Nijole Sabaite URS
        Gunhild Hoffmeister GDR
1976        Tatyana Kazankina URS       Nikolina Shtereva BUL
       Elfi Zinn GDR
1980        Nadezhda Olizarenko URS
        Olga Syrovatskay URS Tatyana Providokhina URS
1984        Doina Melinte ROM        Kim Gallagher USA
        Fita Lovin ROM
1988        Sigrun Wodars         Christine Wachtel GDR
        Kim Gallagher USA
1992        Ellen van Langen NED        Liliya Nurutdinova URS
        Ana Quirot CUB
1996        Svetlana Masterkova RUS        Ana Quirot CUB
        Maria Mutola MOZ
2000        Maria Mutola MOZ             Stephanie Graf AUT
        Kelly Holmes GBR
2004        Kelly Holmes GBR            Hasna Benhassi MAR
        Jolanda Ceplak SLO
2008        Pamela Jelimo KEN          Janeth Busienei KEN      
Hasna Benhassi MAR  

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400m                                      
1964        Betty Cuthbert AUS        Ann Packer GBR         Judith Amoore AUS
1968        Colette Besson FRA         Lillian Board GBR
        Natalya Pechenkina URS
1972        Monika Zehrt GDR         Rita Wilden FRG
        Kathy Hammond USA
1976        Irena Szewinska POL        Christina Lathan-Brehmer GDR
        Ellen Streidt GDR
1980        Marita Koch GDR           Jarmila Kratochvílová CZE
        Christina Lathan-Brehmer GDR
1984        Valerie Brisco-Hooks USA         Chandra Cheeseborough USA
        Kathryn Smallwood-Cook GBR
1988        Olga Bryzgina URS         Petra Müller GDR
        Olga Nazarova URS
1992
        Marie-José Pérec FRA       Olga Bryzgina URS
        Ximena Restrepo COL
1996        Marie-José Pérec FRA         Cathy Freeman AUS
      Falilat Ogunkoya NGR
2000        Cathy Freeman AUS         Lorraine Graham JAM
        Katharine Merry GBR
2004        Tonique Williams-Darling BAH       Ana Guevara MEX
       Natalia Antyukh RUS
2008        Christine Ohuruogu GBR       Shericka Williams JAM        Sanya Richards USA

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100m Hurdles                                        
1932        Babe Didriksen USA             Evelyne Hall USA                Marjorie Clark SAF
1936        Ondina Valla KIT               Anni Steuer GER
                  Betty Taylor CAN
1948        Fanny Blankers-Koen NED         Maureen Gardner GBR
        Shirley Strickland AUS
1952        Shirley Strickland AUS            Mariya Golubnichaya URS
        Marie Sander GER
1956        Shirley Strickland AUS         Gisela Birkemeyer-Köhler GER
        Norma Thrower AUS
1960        Irina Press URS                  Carole Quinton GBR
                  Gisela Birkemeyer-Köhler GER
1964        Karin Balzer GER              Teresa Ciepla POL
                     Pamela Kilborn AUS
1968        Maureen Caird AUS         Pamela Kilborn AUS
                   Chi Cheng TPE
1972        Annelie Ehrhardt GDR         Valeria Bufanu ROM
             Karin Balzer GDR
1976        Johanna Klier-Schaller GDR        Tatyana Anisimova URS
        Natalya Lebedeva URS
1980        Vera Komisova URS         Johanna Klier-Schaller GDR
        Lucyna Langer POL
1984        Benita Fitzgerald-Brown USA       Shirley Strong GBR      Michèle Chardonnet FRA
/Kim Turner USA
1988        Yordanka Donkova BUL             Gloria Siebert GDR
        Claudia Zaczkiewicz FRG
1992        Voula Patoulidou GRE            LaVonna Martin USA
        Yordanka Donkova BUL
1996        Ludmila Engquist SWE         Brigita Bukovec SLO
        Patricia Girard-Léno FRA
2000        Olga Shishigina KAZ         Glory Alozie NGR
             Melissa Morrison USA
2004        Joanna Hayes USA             Olena Krasovska UKR
        Melissa Morrison USA
2008        Dawn Harper USA      Sally McLellan AUS       Priscilla Lopes-Schliep CAN

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400m Hurdles                                        
1984        Nawal El Moutawakel MAR         Judi Brown USA        Cristiena Cojocaru ROM
1988        Debbie Flintoff-King AUS         Tatyana Ledovskaya URS
        Ellen Fiedler GDR
1992        Sally Gunnell GBR                   Sandra Farmer-Patrick USA         Janeene Vickers USA/
Tatyana Ledovskaya URS
1996        Deon Hemmings JAM                Kim Batten USA
                  Tonja Buford-Bailey USA
2000        Irina Privalova RUS                  Deon Hemmings JAM
        Nouzha Bidouane MAR
2004        Fani Halkia GRE                  Ionela Tirlea-Manolache ROM
        Tetiana Tereshchuk-Antipova UKR
2008        Melanie Walker JAM         Sheena Tosta USA         Tasha Danvers GBR

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20km Walk                                            

2000        Liping Wang CHN                         Kjersti Plaetzer NOR          Maria Vasco ESP

2004        Athanasia Tsoumeleka GRE         Olimpiada Ivanova RUS     Jane Saville AUS

2008        Olga Kaniskina RUS                      Kjersti Tysse Platzer NOR     Elisa Rigaudo ITA

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Long Jump                                            
1948        Olga Gyarmati HUN                 Noëmi Simonetto de Portela ARG       Ann-Britt Leyman SWE
1952        Yvette Williams NZL               Alexandra Chudina URS
                      Shirley Cawley GBR
1956        Elzbieta Krzeszinska POL         Willye White USA
                               Nadezhda Khnykina URS
1960        Vera Krepkina URS                  Elzbieta Krzeszinska POL
                   Hildrun Claus GER
1964        Mary Rand GBR                    Irena Szewinska POL
                            Tatyana Shchelkanova URS
1968        Viorica Viscopoleanu ROM        Sheila Sherwood GBR
                      Tatyana Talysheva URS
1972        Heide Rosendahl FRG               Diana Yorgova BUL
                            Eva Suranová CZE
1976        Angela Voigt  GDR                 Kathy McMillan USA
                            Lidiya Alfeyeva URS
1980        Tatyana Kolpakova URS               Brigitte Wujak GDR
                       Tatyana Skachko URS
1984        Anisoara Stanciu-Cusmir ROM       Valeria Ionescu ROM
                 Susan Hearnshaw GBR
1988        Jackie Joyner-Kersee USA         Heike Drechsler GDR
                    Galina Cistjakova URS
1992        Heike Drechsler GER                   Inessa Kravets URS
                      Jackie Joyner-Kersee USA
1996        Chioma Ajunwa NGR                  Fiona May ITA
                            Jackie Joyner-Kersee USA
2000        Heike Drechsler GER                  Fiona May ITA
                            Marion Jones USA
2004        Tatyana Lebedeva RUS            Irina Simagina RUS
                    Tatyana Kotova RUS
2008         Maureen Higa Maggi  BRA         Tatyana Lebedeva  RUS          Blessing Okagbare NGR

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5,000m
1996        Junxia Wang CHN         Pauline Konga KEN         Roberta Brunet ITA
2000        Gabriela Szabo ROM    Sonia O'Sullivan IRL
        Gete Wami ETH
2004        Meseret Defar ETH         Isabella Ochichi KEN
        Tirunesh Dibaba ETH
2008       Tirunesh Dibaba ETH      Elvan Abeylegesse TUR     Meseret Defar ETH

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4x100 relay                                            
1928 Gold CAN       Florence Bell, Myrtle Cook, Fanny Rosenfeld, Ethel Smith
1928 Silver USA        Jessie Cross, Loretta McNeil, Elizabeth Robinson, Mary Washburn
1928 Bronze GER        Anni Holdmann, Leni Junker, Rosa Kellner, Leni Schmidt

1932 Gold USA       Mary Carew,
Evelyn Furtsch, Annette Rogers, Wilhelmina Von Bremen
1932 Silver CAN        Mary Frizzel, Mildred Frizzel, Lillian Palmer, Hilda Strike
1932 Bronze GBR        Nellie Halstead, Eileen Hiscock, Gwendoline Porter, Violet Webb 

1936 Gold USA       Harriet Bland,
Elizabeth Robinson, Annette Rogers, Helen Stephens
1936 Silver GBR        Audrey Brown, Barbara Burke, Eileen Hiscock, Violet Olney
1936 Bronze CAN        Dorothy Brookshaw, Hilda Cameron, Mildred Dolson, Aileen Meagher

1948 Gold NED        Fanny Blankers-Koen,
Xenia Stad-de Jong, Gerda van der Kade-Koudijs, Nettie Witziers-Timmer
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948 Silver AUS        Joyce King, June Maston, Betty McKinnon,
Shirley Strickland
1948 Bronze CAN       Diane Foster, Patricia Jones, Nancy Mackay, Viola Myers

1952 Gold USA        Mae Faggs,
Catherine Hardy, Barbara Jones, Janet Moreau
1952 Silver GER        Helga Klein, Ursula Knab, Marga Petersen, Marie Sander
1952 Bronze GBR       Heather Armitage, Sylvia Cheeseman, Jean Desforges, June Foulds-Paul

1956 Gold AUS        Norma Croker,
Betty Cuthbert, Fleur Mellor,  Shirley Strickland
1956 Silver GBR        Heather Armitage, June Foulds-Paul, Anne Pashley, Jean Scrivens
1956 Bronze USA        Isabelle Daniels, Mae Faggs, Margaret Matthews, Wilma Rudolph

1960 Gold USA        Martha Hudson,
Barbara Jones , Wilma Rudolph, Lucinda Williams
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960 Silver GER        Annie Biechl, Jutta Heine, Brunhilde Hendrix,
Martha Langbein
1960 Bronze POL       Teresa Ciepla, Halina Górecka-Richter, Barbara Janiszewska, Celina Jesionowska

1964 Gold POL       Teresa Ciepla,
Halina Górecka-Richter, Ewa Klobukowska, Irena Szewinska
1964 Silver USA        Edith McGuire, Wyomia Tyus, Marilyn White, Willye White
1964 Bronze GBR        Daphne Arden, Dorothy Hyman, Mary Rand, Janet Simpson

1968 Gold USA        Margaret Bailes,
Barbara Ferrell, Mildrette Netter, Wyomia Tyus
1968 Silver CUB       Miguelina Cobián, Marlene Elejarde, Violetta Quesada, Fulgencia Romay
1968 Bronze URS        Galina Bukharina, Lyudmila Maslakova, Vera Popkova, Lyudmila Samotesova

1972 Gold FRG        Christiane Krause,
Ingrid Mickler-Becker, Annegret Richter, Heide Rosendahl
1972 Silver GDR       Christina Heinich, Evelyn Kaufer, Renate Stecher, Bärbel Struppert
1972 Bronze CUB        Silvia Chivás, Marlene Elejarde, Fulgencia Romay, Carmen Valdés

1976 Gold GDR        Carla Bodendorf,
Marlies Göhr-Oelsner, Renate Stecher, Bärbel Wöckel-Eckert
1976 Silver FRG        Inge Helten, Annegret Kroninger, Elvira Poßekel, Annegret Richter
1976 Bronze URS        Vera Anisimova, Nadezhda Besfamilnaya, Lyudmila Maslakova, Tatyana Prorochenko

1980 Gold GDR        Marlies Göhr-Oelsner,
Ingrid Lange-Auerswald, Romy Müller, Bärbel Wöckel-Eckert
1980 Silver URS        Vera Anisimova, Natalya Bochina, Vera Komisova, Lyudmila Maslakova
1980 Bronze GBR        Beverley Goddard-Callender, Heather Hunte, Sonia Lannaman, Kathryn Smallwood-Cook

1984 Gold USA       Evelyn Ashford,
Jeanette Bolden, Alice Brown, Chandra Cheeseborough
1984 Silver CAN        Angela Bailey, France Gareau, Marita Payne, Angella Taylor
1984 Bronze GBR       Beverley Goddard-Callender, Heather Hunte, Simmone Jacobs, Kathryn Smallwood-Cook

1988 Gold USA       Evelyn Ashford,
Alice Brown, Sheila Echols, Florence Griffith-Joyner
1988 Silver GDR       Kerstin Behrendt, Marlies Göhr-Oelsner, Ingrid Lange-Auerswald, Silke Möller-Gladisch
1988 Bronze URS        Lyudmila Kondratyeva, Galina Malchugina, Natalya Pomoshchnikova, Marina Zhirova

1992 Gold USA        Evelyn Ashford,
Carlette Guidry, Esther Jones, Gwen Torrence
1992 Silver URS       Olga Bogoslovskaya, Galina Malchugina, Irina Privalova, Marina Trandenkova
1992 Bronze NGR        Faith Idehen, Mary Onyali, Christy Opara-Thompson, Beatrice Utondu

1996 Gold USA        Gail Devers,
Chryste Gaines, Inger Miller, Gwen Torrence
1996 Silver BAH        Eldece Clark, Pauline Davis-Thompson, Sevatheda Fynes, Chandra Sturrup
1996 Bronze JAM       Juliet Cuthbert, Michelle Freeman, Nikole Mitchell, Merlene Ottey-Page

2000 Gold BAH       Pauline Davis-Thompson,
Debbie Ferguson, Sevatheda Fynes, Chandra Sturrup
2000 Silver JAM        Veronica Campbell, Tanya Lawrence, Beverly McDonald, Merlene Ottey-Page
2000 Bronze USA        Torri Edwards, Chryste Gaines, Marion Jones, Nanceen Perry

2004 Gold JAM        Aleen Bailey,
Veronica Campbell, Tanya Lawrence, Sherone Simpson
2004 Silver RUS        Olga Fyodorova, Irina Khabarova, Larisa Kruglova, Yuliya Tabakova
2004 Bronze FRA        Christine Arron, Sylviane Felix, Muriel Hurtis, Veronique Mang

2008 Gold RUS       Evgeniya Polyakova, Aleksandra Fedoriva, Yulia Gushchina,
Yuliya Chermoshanskaya
2008 Silver BEL     
Olivia Borlee, Hanna Marien, Elodie Ouedraogo,
Kim Gevaert
2008 Bronze NGR   Franca Idoko, 
 Gloria Kemasuode, Agnes OsazuwaOludamola OsayomiHalimat Ismaila

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High Jump                                            
1928        Ethel Catherwood CAN              Carolina Gisolf NED            Mildred Wiley USA
1932        Jean Shiley USA                    Babe Didriksen USA
              Eva Dawes CAN
1936        Ibolya Csák HUN                   Dorothy Odam-Tyler GBR
        Elfriede Kaun GER
1948        Alice Coachman USA           Dorothy Odam-Tyler GBR
        Micheline Ostermeyer FRA
1952        Esther Brand SAF                Sheila Lerwill GBR
                    Alexandra Chudina URS
1956        Millie McDaniel USA         Mariya Pisareva URS
                  Thelma Hopkins GBR
1960        Iolanda Balas ROM         Jaroslawa Józwiakowska POL
        Dorothy Shirley GBR
1964        Iolanda Balas ROM        Michelle Brown AUS
                     Taisa Chenchyk URS
1968        Miloslava Rezková CZE         Antonina Okorokova URS
        Valentina Kozyr URS
1972        Ulrike Meyfarth FRG            Jordanka Blagoeva BUL
        Ilona Gusenbauer AUT
1976        Rosemarie Ackermann GDR         Sara Simeoni ITA
        Jordanka Blagoeva BUL
1980        Sara Simeoni ITA               Urszula Kielan POL
                Jutta Kirst GDR
1984        Ulrike Meyfarth FRG            Sara Simeoni ITA
                 Joni Huntley USA
1988        Louise Ritter USA              Stefka Kostadinova BUL
        Tamara Bykova URS
1992        Heike Henkel GER         Galina Astafei ROM
               Ioamnet Quintero CUB
1996        Stefka Kostadinova BUL         Niki Bakogianni GRE
        Inga Babakhova UKR
2000        Yelena Yelesina RUS         Hestrie Cloete RSA
               Kajsa Bergqvist SWE
2004        Yelena Slesarenko RUS        Hestrie Cloete RSA  
       Viktoriya Styopina UKR
2008        Tia Hellebaut  BEL           Blanka Vlasic  CRO            Anna Chicherova  RUS

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1500m                                    
1972        Lyudmila Bragina URS        Gunhild Hoffmeister GDR         Paola Cacchi-Pigni ITA
1976        Tatyana Kazankina URS         Gunhild Hoffmeister GDR
        Ulrike Klapezynski GDR
1980        Tatyana Kazankina URS         Christiane Wartenberg GDR
        Nadezhda Olizarenko URS
1984        Gabriella Dorio ITA                Doina Melinte ROM
                    Maricica Puica ROM
1988        Paula Ivan ROM                   Laimute Baikauskaite URS
        Tetyana Samolenko URS
1992        Hassiba Boulmerka ALG       Lyudmila Rogachova URS
            Yunxia Qu CHN
1996        Svetlana Masterkova RUS        Gabriela Szabo ROM
               Theresia Kiesl AUT
2000        Nouria Merah-Benida ALG         Violeta Szekely ROM
             Gabriela Szabo ROM
2004        Kelly Holmes GBR                   Tatyana Tomashova RUS         Maria Cioncan ROM
2008        Nancy Langet KEN                Iryna Lishchysnka  UKR           Nataliya Tobias  UKR

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4x400 relay                                            
1972 Gold GDR        Dagmar Käsling, Rita Kühne, Helga Seidler, Monika Zehrt
1972 Silver USA        Mable Fergerson, Kathy Hammond, Madeline Manning-Jackson,
Cheryl Toussaint
1972 Bronze FRG      Inge Bödding, Hildegard Falck, Anette Rückes,
Rita Wilden

1976 Gold GDR        Christina Lathan-Brehmer, Doris Maletzki, Brigitte Rohde,
Ellen Streidt
1976 Silver USA        Rosalyn Bryant, Sheila Ingram, Pamela Jiles,
Debra Sapenter
1976 Bronze URS      Lyudmila Aksenova, Nadezhda Ilyina, Inta Klimovica,
Natalya Sokolova

1980 Gold URS        Tatyana Goyshchik, Irina Nazarova, Tatyana Prorochenko,
Nina Zyuskova
1980 Silver GDR        Marita Koch, Barbara Krug, Christina Lathan-Brehmer, Gabriele Löwe
1980 Bronze GBR      Donna-Marie Hartley, Joslyn Hoyte-Smith, Linsey MacDonald, Michelle Probert

1984 Gold USA          Valerie Brisco-Hooks ,
Chandra Cheeseborough, Sherri Howard, Diane Dixon
1984 Silver CAN         Charmaine Crooks, Molly Killingbeck, Marita Payne, Jillian Richardson, Dana Wright
1984 Bronze FRG       Gaby Bußmann, Heide-Elke Gaugel, Heike Schulte-Mattler, Ute Thimm

1988 Gold URS        Olga Bryzgina,
Tatyana Ledovskaya, Olga Nazarova, Mariya Pinigina
1988 Silver USA        Valerie Brisco-Hooks, Florence Griffith-Joyner, Denean Howard-Hill
1988 Bronze GDR        Sabine Busch, Kirsten Emmelmann, Petra Müller, Dagmar Neubauer-Rübsam

1992 Gold URS        Olga Bryzgina,
Lyudmila Dzhigalova, Olga Nazarova, Yelena Ruzina
1992 Silver USA        Natasha Kaiser, Jearl Miles, Rochelle Stevens,
Gwen Torrence
1992 Bronze GBR        Sandra Douglas, Sally Gunnell, Phylis Smith, Jennifer Stoute

1996 Gold USA        Kim Graham,
Maicel Malone, Jearl Miles, Rochelle Stevens
1996 Silver NGR       Bisi Afolabi, Falilat Ogunkoya, Charity Opara, Fatima Yusuf
1996 Bronze GER    Grit Breuer, Linda Kisabaka, Uta Rohländer, Anja Rücker

2000 Gold USA        LaTasha Colander-Richardson, Monique Hennagan, Marion Jones,
Jearl Miles
2000 Silver JAM        Lorraine Graham, Deon Hemmings, Sandie Richards, Catherine Scott-Pomales
2000 Bronze RUS        Svetlana Gontcharenko, Olga Kotlyarova, Irina Privalova, Yulia Sotnikova

2004 Gold USA        Monique Henderson, Monique Hennagan, Sanya Richards,
Deedee Trotter
2004 Silver RUS        Natalia Antyukh, Olesya Krasnomovets, Natalya Nazarova, Olesya Zykina
2004 Bronze JAM        Michelle Burgher, Nadia Davy, Sandie Richards, Novlene Williams

2008 Gold USA        Mary Wineberg, Monique Henderson, Natasha Hastings, Sanya Richards, Allyson Felix
2008 Silver RUS         Elena Migunova, Tatyana Veshkurova, Liudmila Litvinova, Tatiana Firova, Yulia Gushchina, Anastasia Kapachinskaya
2008 Bronze JAM
      Novelene Williams, Shereefa Lloyd, Bobby-Gaye Wilkins, Shericka Williams, Rosemarie Whyte

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Shot Put                                 
1948        Micheline Ostermeyer  FRA         Amelia Piccinini ITA                   Ine Schäffer AUT
1952        Galina Zybina URS                   Marianne Werner GER
                   Klavdiya Tochenova URS
1956        Tamara Tyshkevich URS              Galina Zybina URS
                     Marianne Werner GER
1960        Tamara Press URS                  Johanna Lüttge GER                 
        Earlene Brown USA
1964        Tamara Press URS                 Renate Garisch-Culmberger GER
        Galina Zybina URS
1968        Margitta Gummel-Helmboldt GDR       Marita Lange GDR
              Nadezhda Chizhova URS
1972        Nadezhda Chizhova URS        Margitta Gummel-Helmboldt GDR
         Ivanka Khristova BUL
1976        Ivanka Khristova BUL               Nadezhda Chizhova URS
                  Helena Fibingerová CZE
1980        Ilona Slupianek-Schoknecht GDR        Svetlana Krachevskaya URS
        Margitta Pufe-Droese GDR
1984        Claudia Losch FRG                    Mihaela Loghin ROM
                             Gael Martin AUS
1988        Natalya Lisovskaya URS             Kathrin Neimke GDR
                           Meisu Li CHN
1992        Svetlana Krivelyova URS              Zhihong Huang CHN
                     Kathrin Neimke GER
1996        Astrid Kumbernuss GER               Xinmei Sui CHN
                           Irina Khudorozhkina RUS
2000        Yanina Korolchik BLR                 Larisa Peleshenko RUS
                   Astrid Kumbernuss GER
2004        Yumileidi Cumba CUB             Nadine Kleinert GER
                       Svetlana Krivelyova RUS
2008        Valerie Vili  NZL                    Natallia Mikhnevich BLR                       Nadzeya Ostapchuk BLR

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Javelin                                   
1932        Babe Didriksen USA         Ellen Braumüller GER         Tilly Fleischer GER
1936        Tilly Fleischer GER         Luise Krüger GER
                 Maria Kwasniewska POL
1948        Herma Bauma AUT         Kaisa Parviainen FIN
        Lily Carlstedt DEN
1952        Dana Zátopková CZE         Alexandra Chudina URS
        Yelena Gorchakova URS
1956        Inese Jaunzeme URS         Marlene Ahrens CHI
        Nadezhda Konyaeva URS
1960        Elvira Ozolina URS         Dana Zátopková CZE
        Birute Kalediene URS
1964        Mihaela Penes ROM         Márta Rudas-Antal HUN
        Yelena Gorchakova URS
1968        Angéla Németh HUN         Mihaela Penes ROM
        Eva Janko AUT
1972        Ruth Fuchs GDR                Jacqueline Todten GDR      
Kathy Schmidt USA
1976        Ruth Fuchs GDR              Marion Becker FRG
              Kathy Schmidt USA
1980        Maria Colon CUB              Saida Gunba URS
               Ute Hommola GDR
1984        Tessa Sanderson GBR         Tiina Lillak FIN
                 Fatima Whitbread GBR
1988        Petra Felke GDR               Fatima Whitbread GBR
              Beate Koch GDR
1992        Silke Renk GER                 Natalya Shikolenko URS
              Karen Forkel GER
1996        Heli Rantanen FIN              Louise McPaul AUS
               Trine Hattestad NOR
2000        Trine Hattestad NOR         Mirela Manjani GRE
              Osleidys Menendez CUB
2004        Osleidys Menendez CUB        Steffi Nerius GER
                Mirela Manjani GRE
2008        Barbora Spotakova  CZE        Maria Abakumova  RUS          Christina Obergfoll GER

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Hammer Throw                                     
2000        Kamila Skolimowska POL         Olga Kuzenkova RUS        Kirsten Münchow GER
2004        Olga Kuzenkova  RUS        Yipsi Moreno CUB         Yunaika Crawford  CUB
2008         Aksana Miankova  BLR         Yipsi Moreno  CUB       Wenxiu Zhang  CHN

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200m                                      
1948        Fanny Blankers-Koen NED       Audrey Williamson GBR       Audrey Patterson USA
1952        Marjorie Jackson AUS             Bertha Brouwer NED
             Nadezhda Khnykina URS
1956        Betty Cuthbert AUS                Christa Stubnick GER
             Marlene Mathews AUS
1960        Wilma Rudolph USA         Jutta Heine GBR
        Dorothy Hyman ITA
1964        Edith McGuire USA        Irena Szewinska POL
        Marilyn Black AUS
1968        Irena Szewinska POL         Raelene Boyle AUS
        Jennifer Lamy AUS
1972        Renate Stecher GDR         Raelene Boyle AUS
       Irena Szewinska POL
1976        Bärbel Wöckel-Eckert GDR         Annegret Richter FRG
       Renate Stecher GDR
1980        Bärbel Wöckel-Eckert GDR         Natalya Bochina URS
        Merlene Ottey-Page JAM
1984        Valerie Brisco-Hooks USA        Florence Griffith-Joyner USA
     Merlene Ottey-Page JAM
1988        Florence Griffith-Joyner USA         Grace Jackson JAM
            Heike Drechsler GDR
1992        Gwen Torrence USA                     Juliet Cuthbert JAM
         Merlene Ottey-Page JAM
1996        Marie-José Pérec FRA             Merlene Ottey-Page JAM
        Mary Onyali NGR
2000        Marion Jones USA                Pauline Davis-Thompson BAH
        Susanthika Jayasinghe SRI
2004        Veronica Campbell JAM         Allyson Felix USA
        Debbie Ferguson BAH
2008        Veronica Campbell-Brown JAM       Allyson Felix  USA          Kerron Stewart  JAM

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