The First of Us Trivia Quiz

Answer: Jim Hines (USA)

Jim Hines was the first to clock under 10 seconds (9.9) in the USA national championships in 1968, using a stop-watch. He repeated the feat in the 1968 Mexico Olympics, when he was timed at 9.95, using electronic timing. He held the world record for 15 years.

Answer: Tommie Smith (USA)

Tommie Smith broke the 20-second barrier in the 1968 Mexico Olympics with 19.83. This was his only gold Olympic medal. His other notable success was winning the 200 meters in the 1967 Tokyo Universiade.
During his career, he broke seven world records.

Answer: Lee Evans (USA)

Lee Evans set the World and Olympic record of 43.86 at the 1968 Mexico Olympics. His record stood for almost 20 years. He also won gold at the 4 x 400m relay.

Answer: Sebastian Coe (UK)

Coe ran a world record time of 1:41:73 at a meeting in Florence on June 10, 1981. His record stood until August 1997.
Coe won two Olympic gold medals at the 1980 and 1984 Olympics in the 1500m race. He also won two silvers at the same Olympics running the 800m.

Answer: Hicham El Guerrouj (Morocco)

The record was set on 08 September, 2002 at Rieti, Italy and his time was 3:26.96. The Rieti meeting was an annual event, held during late August and early September. The 2002 meeting saw the inauguration of a new 8-lane track.
El Guerrouj won two gold medals at the 2004 Athens Olympics in the 1500 and 5000 meters. He also won gold in the World Championships, all in the 1500m, in Athens 1997, Seville 1999, Edmonton 2001 and Paris 2003.

Answer: Kenenisa Bekele (Ethiopia)

His time of 12:37:35 was achieved on May 31, 2004 at the Hengelo, Netherlands meeting.
He won Olympic gold at 10000m in Athens 2004 and Beijing 2008 and also a gold at 5000m in Beijing. He also won 4 gold medals at 10000m in 2003, 2005, 2007 and 2009, in the World Championships. In the 2009 World Championships he also won gold at 5000m.

Answer: Ron Clarke (Australia)

At the Oslo Bislett Games, an annual event, on July 14, 1965 he ran the 10000m in 27:39.4. He won one Olympic bronze medal in the Tokyo Olympics, 1964.

Answer: Renaldo Nehemiah (USA)

On the 19 of August, 1981 in the Weltklasse Zurich, he recorded a time of 12:93, becoming the first athlete to go under 13 seconds.
Although he was world record holder for four consecutive years he never competed in the Olympic Games.
In 1979 he won gold at the Pan American Games and at the IAAF World Cup.

Answer: Geoff Vanderstock (USA)

His 48:94 was set at the USA Olympic Trials on September 11, 1968. At the 1968 Olympics, a month later, he finished fourth, while David Hemery was the winner with a new record of 48:12.

Answer: Moses Kiptanui (Kenya)

He ran it in 7:59.18 on 16 August 1995, in Zürich, Switzerland.
He won three gold medals in the World Championships in 1991, 1993 and 1995. He also won gold at the London World Cup in 1994. He was ranked number one athlete in this distance, from 1991 to 1995.