T&FN Chooses The Decade’s Best In Each Event
Bookmark and Share The March edition of Track & Field News, now on the newsstands, is largely dedicated to revisiting the decade which has just ended. As previously posted to our In The News section, Kenenisa Bekele and Yelena Isinbaeva were chosen as the Athletes Of The Decade.
T&FN also chose the top 10 performers in each event for the decade. Here are the No. 1s:
MEN
100 — Usain Bolt (Jamaica)
200 — Usain Bolt (Jamaica)
400 — Jeremy Wariner (USA)
800 — Yuriy Borzakovskiy (Russia)
1500 — Hicham El Guerrouj (Morocco)
Steeple — Saïf Shaheen (Kenya/Qatar)
5000 — Kenenisa Bekele (Ethiopia)
10,000 — Kenenisa Bekele (Ethiopia)
110 Hurdles — Xiang Liu (China)
400 Hurdles — Félix Sánchez (Puerto Rico)
Marathon — Jaouad Gharib (Morocco)
20K Walk — Jefferson Pérez (Ecuador)
50K Walk — Robert Korzeniowski (Poland)
High Jump — Stefan Holm (Sweden)
Pole Vault — Steve Hooker (Australia)
Long Jump — Dwight Phillips (USA)
Triple Jump — Christian Olsson (Sweden)
Shot — Adam Nelson (USA)
Discus — Virgilijus Alekna (Lithuania)
Hammer — Koji Murofushi (Japan)
Javelin — Andreas Thorkildsen (Norway)
Decathlon — Roman Šebrle (Czech Republic)
WOMEN
100 — Veronica Campbell-Brown (Jamaica)
200 — Allyson Felix (USA)
400 — Sanya Richards (USA)
800 — Maria Mutola (Mozambique)
1500 — Maryam Jamal (Bahrain)
Steeple — Gulnara Galkina (Russia)
5000 — Tirunesh Dibaba (Ethiopia)
10,000 — Tirunesh Dibaba (Ethiopia)
100 Hurdles — Brigitte Foster-Hylton (Jamaica)
400 Hurdles — Yuliya Pechonkina (Russia)
Marathon — Paula Radcliffe (Great Britain)
20K Walk — Olga Kaniskina (Russia)
High Jump — Blanka Vlašić (Croatia)
Pole Vault — Yelena Isinbaeva (Russia)
Long Jump — Tatyana Kotova (Russia)
Triple Jump — Tatyana Lebedeva (Russia)
Shot — Valerie Vili (New Zealand)
Discus — Franka Dietzsch (Germany)
Hammer — Yipsi Moreno (Cuba)
Javelin — Osleidys Menéndez (Cuba)
Heptathlon — Carolina Klüft (Sweden)