🤔 Question for those who enjoy pondering Track and Field history:
Who is the greatest athlete to never win an Olympic Gold?
For me, it's the Welsh whippet, Colin Jackson. World Champ and World Record holder, both indoors and out!
Who would you pick?
And check out this magnificent 4×110MH!
Who is the greatest athlete to never win an Olympic Gold?
For me, it's the Welsh whippet, Colin Jackson. World Champ and World Record holder, both indoors and out!
Who would you pick?
And check out this magnificent 4×110MH!
Comments
1 Warmerdam USA 4.77
2 Schaefer USA 4.42
3 DeField USA 4.37
4 Smith USA 4.36
5 Sawada JPN 4.30
6 Morcom USA 4.29
7 Hunt USA 4.28
8 Nichols USA 4.26
8 Moore USA 4.26
8 Meadows USA 4.26
According to Mark Butler's Athletics Statistic Book for Tokyo, Churandy Martina is the athlete who ranked higher without winning a medal in his list of most successful Olympic athletes in terms of their placings in the first 8.
Jim Ryun! Seemed he was jinxed.
On the pure stats side (everything else notwithstanding) - Jarmila Kratochvilova