The Top Ranked Track & Field Athletes of All-Time by Rookie Year-1908
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The Top Ranked Track & Field Athletes of All-Time by Rookie Year-1908
| Rnk | Athlete | Nation | Overall Rank |
| 1 | George Larner | Great Britain | 71 |
| 2 | Matt McGrath | Ireland | 91 |
| 3 | Elmer Niklander | Finland | 105 |
| 4 | Mel Sheppard | USA | 115 |
| 5 | George Goulding | Canada | 226 |
| 6 | Tim Ahearne | Great Britain | 244 |
| 7 | Frank Irons | USA | 248 |
| 8 | Ed Cook | USA | 272 |
| 9 | A.C. Gilbert | USA | 350 |
| 10 | Arthur Russell | Great Britain | 365 |
| 11 | Emil Voigt | Great Britain | 395 |
| 12 | Forrest Smithson | USA | 398 |
| 13 | Harry Porter | USA | 413 |
| 14 | Johnny Hayes | USA | 431 |
| 15 | Reggie Walker | South Africa | 468 |
| 16 | Ernie Webb | Great Britain | 506 |
| 17 | Cal Bricker | Canada | 553 |
| 18 | Johnny Garrels | USA | 558 |
| 19 | Geo Andre | France | 578 |
| 20 | Hugo Wieslander | Sweden | 583 |
| 21 | Willie May | USA | 648 |
| 22 | Hanns Braun | Germany | 651 |
| 23 | Lewis Tewanima | USA | 656 |
| 24 | Garfield MacDonald | Canada | 670 |
| 25 | Charles Hefferon | Great Britain | 694 |
| 26 | Arthur Robertson | Great Britain | 706 |
| 27 | Jean Bouin | France | 741 |
| 28 | Bobby Cloughen | USA | 759 |
| 29 | Eddie Owen | Great Britain | 784 |
| 30 | Dan Kelly | USA | 825 |
| 31 | Denis Horgan | Great Britain | 831 |
| 32 | Harold Wilson | Great Britain | 869 |
| 33 | James Rector | USA | 880 |
| 34 | John B. Taylor | USA | 884 |
| 35 | John Carpenter | USA | 886 |
| 36 | Merritt Giffin | USA | 921 |
| 37 | William Robbins | USA | 973 |
| 38 | Miklos Kovacs | Hungary | 1023 |
| 39 | Otto Nilsson | Sweden | 1048 |
| 40 | Bill Horr | USA | 1061 |
| 41 | Edvard Larsen | Norway | 1162 |
| 42 | Harry Kerr | New Zealand | 1191 |
| 43 | Jimmy Tremeer | Great Britain | 1192 |
| 44 | Art Shaw | USA | 1263 |
| 45 | Charles Jacobs | USA | 1275 |
| 46 | Con Walsh | Canada | 1278 |
| 47 | Edward Spencer | Great Britain | 1300 |
| 48 | John Eisele | USA | 1365 |
| 49 | Norman Hallows | Great Britain | 1398 |
| 50 | Frank Lukeman | Canada | 1455 |
| 51 | Jack Tait | Canada | 1458 |
| 52 | Juho Halme | Finland | 1461 |
| 53 | Tom Nicolson | Great Britain | 1499 |
| 54 | Robert Olsson | Sweden | 1509 |
| 55 | Aarne Salovaara | Finland | 1627 |
| 56 | Alton Welton | USA | 1709 |
| 57 | Frank Carter | Great Britain | 1752 |
| 58 | George Hawkins | Great Britain | 1756 |
| 59 | Guy Holdaway | Great Britain | 1763 |
| 60 | Leslie Burton | Great Britain | 1812 |
| 61 | William Rand | USA | 1878 |
| 62 | Platt Adams | USA | 1907 |
| 63 | Bill Palmer | Great Britain | 1923 |
| 64 | Lee Talbott | USA | 1928 |
| 65 | Nate Sherman | USA | 1950 |
| 66 | Lou Sebert | Canada | 1968 |
| 67 | John Brennan | Ireland | 2041 |
| 68 | Albert Rowland | New Zealand | 2046 |
| 69 | Harry Coe | USA | 2051 |
| 70 | Harry Huff | USA | 2052 |
| 71 | Patrick Roche | Ireland | 2055 |
| 72 | Ernest Larner | Great Britain | 2060 |
| 73 | Edward Barrett | Great Britain | 2078 |
| 74 | Kenneth Powell | Great Britain | 2105 |
| 75 | Bill Hamilton | USA | 2110 |
| 76 | Armas Pesonen | Finland | 2165 |
| 77 | Arthur Dearborn | USA | 2168 |
| 78 | Cecil Kinahan | Great Britain | 2184 |
| 79 | Charles Davies | Great Britain | 2186 |
| 80 | Edwin Montague | Great Britain | 2206 |
| 81 | Eric Hussey | Great Britain | 2211 |
| 82 | Frederick Harmer | Great Britain | 2222 |
| 83 | Harry Sewell | Great Britain | 2234 |
| 84 | Herbert Gidney | USA | 2237 |
| 85 | Horace Ramey | USA | 2239 |
| 86 | Ivo Fairbairn-Crawford | Great Britain | 2247 |
| 87 | Lionel Reed | Great Britain | 2285 |
| 88 | Tom Moffitt | USA | 2344 |
| 89 | William Knyvett | Great Britain | 2360 |
| 90 | William Wood | Canada | 2363 |
| 91 | Sam Bellah | USA | 2391 |
| 92 | Emilio Lunghi | Italy | 2416 |
| 93 | William Galbraith | Canada | 2431 |
| 94 | Frank Mount Pleasant | USA | 2464 |
| 95 | Richard Harrison | Great Britain | 2497 |
| 96 | Imre Mudin | Hungary | 2526 |
| 97 | Charles Vestergaard | Denmark | 2549 |
| 98 | Fred Meadows | Canada | 2560 |
| 99 | Joe Deakin | Great Britain | 2588 |
| 100 | Fred Simpson | Canada | 2681 |
| 101 | Jalmari Sauli | Finland | 2862 |
| 102 | Simon Gillis | Canada | 2875 |
| 103 | John Fitzgerald | Canada | 2919 |
| 104 | Massimo Cartasegna | Italy | 2926 |
| 105 | Hermann von Bonninghausen | Germany | 2930 |
| 106 | Einar Rothman | Sweden | 3018 |
| 107 | Karl Fryksdahl | Sweden | 3068 |
| 108 | Albert Weinstein | Germany | 3085 |
| 109 | Gayle Dull | USA | 3154 |
| 110 | Harry Lawson | Canada | 3169 |
| 111 | Joseph Kinchin | Great Britain | 3203 |
| 112 | Neil Patterson | USA | 3238 |
| 113 | Vincent Loney | Great Britain | 3286 |
| 114 | Wyatt Gould | Great Britain | 3296 |
| 115 | Henry Leeke | Great Britain | 3304 |
| 116 | Ernest May | Great Britain | 3327 |
| 117 | Evert Koops | Netherlands | 3370 |
| 118 | Oswald Groenings | Great Britain | 3397 |
| 119 | John Johansen | Norway | 3435 |
| 120 | Karl Bechler | Germany | 3436 |
| 121 | Axel Hedenlund | Sweden | 3511 |
| 122 | Evert Jakobsson | Finland | 3547 |
| 123 | Fred Bellars | USA | 3552 |
| 124 | Geoffrey Burton | Great Britain | 3559 |
| 125 | Jarl Jakobsson | Finland | 3596 |
| 126 | Kalman Szathmary | Hungary | 3611 |
| 127 | Kharalambos Zouras | Greece | 3614 |
| 128 | Charles Lagarde | France | 3705 |
| 129 | Evert Bjorn | Sweden | 3759 |
| 130 | George Nicol | Great Britain | 3785 |
| 131 | Wilbur Burroughs | USA | 3787 |
| 132 | Jack George | Great Britain | 3804 |
| 133 | Eddie Duffy | South Africa | 3829 |
| 134 | Jack Morton | Great Britain | 3830 |
| 135 | Jozsef Nagy | Hungary | 3833 |
| 136 | James Stark | Great Britain | 3892 |
| 137 | Denis Murray | Great Britain | 3907 |
| 138 | Karoly Radoczy | Hungary | 3908 |
| 139 | Seth Landqvist | Sweden | 3914 |
| 140 | Alan Fyffe | Great Britain | 3932 |
| 141 | Andreas Breynck | Germany | 3946 |
| 142 | Bruno Zilliacus | Finland | 3971 |
| 143 | Edward Ryle | Great Britain | 3990 |
| 144 | Godwin Withers | Great Britain | 4010 |
| 145 | John Atlee | USA | 4048 |
| 146 | John Barrett | Great Britain | 4049 |
| 147 | John Halstead | USA | 4050 |
| 148 | Lawrence Kiely | Great Britain | 4078 |
| 149 | Leonard Howe | USA | 4082 |
| 150 | Ned Merriam | USA | 4107 |
| 151 | Ludwig Uettwiller | Germany | 4216 |
| 152 | Benjamin Sherman | USA | 4262 |
| 153 | Jack Murray | Great Britain | 4264 |
| 154 | Paul Gunia | Germany | 4274 |
| 155 | Edward Leader | Great Britain | 4279 |
| 156 | Willem Winkelman | Netherlands | 4292 |
| 157 | George Barber | Canada | 4307 |
| 158 | Carl Silfverstrand | Sweden | 4315 |
| 159 | Doug Stupart | South Africa | 4326 |
| 160 | Oscar Lemming | Sweden | 4331 |
| 161 | Harald Agger | Denmark | 4439 |
| 162 | Haswell Wilson | Great Britain | 4440 |
| 163 | James Murphy | Great Britain | 4449 |
| 164 | Kalle Nieminen | Finland | 4465 |
| 165 | Robert Lindsay-Watson | Great Britain | 4520 |
| 166 | Robert Pascarel | France | 4521 |
| 167 | Emil Welz | Germany | 4702 |
| 168 | Charles Williams | Great Britain | 4795 |
| 169 | Cyril Dugmore | Great Britain | 4802 |
| 170 | Jack Caffery | Canada | 4892 |
| 171 | Roland Spitzer | USA | 4987 |
| 172 | Sydney Schofield | Great Britain | 5005 |
| 173 | Thomas Hammond | Great Britain | 5009 |
| 174 | Henri Meslot | France | 5050 |
| 175 | Lauri Pihkala | Finland | 5051 |
| 176 | Henry Murray | New Zealand | 5079 |
| 177 | Charles Hall | USA | 5101 |
| 178 | Folke Fleetwood | Sweden | 5124 |
| 179 | Walter Henderson | Great Britain | 5137 |
| 180 | Alfred Flaxman | Great Britain | 5167 |
| 181 | Billy Clarke | Great Britain | 5182 |
| 182 | Ferenc Jesina | Hungary | 5211 |
| 183 | G. Koeger | France | 5214 |
| 184 | Jack Densham | Great Britain | 5241 |
| 185 | John Falchenberg | Norway | 5256 |
| 186 | Lauri Wilskman | Finland | 5273 |
| 187 | Michael Collins | Great Britain | 5287 |
| 188 | Michael Dineen | Great Britain | 5288 |
| 189 | Theodor Neijstrom | Sweden | 5335 |
| 190 | Thomas Jackson | USA | 5336 |
| 191 | Umberto Avattaneo | Italy | 5343 |
| 192 | Robert Duncan | Great Britain | 5387 |
| 193 | Henry Olsen | Norway | 5396 |
| 194 | Richard Yorke | Great Britain | 5400 |
| 195 | Antal Lovas | Hungary | 5407 |
| 196 | Jack Butler | Great Britain | 5463 |
| 197 | Piet Ruimers | Netherlands | 5468 |
| 198 | Istvan Drubina | Hungary | 5478 |
| 199 | Julius Jorgensen | Denmark | 5545 |
| 200 | Ernest Barnes | Great Britain | 5714 |
| 201 | Frank Buckley | Great Britain | 5725 |
| 202 | G.W. Young | Great Britain | 5732 |
| 203 | Georg Peterson | Sweden | 5739 |
| 204 | Henry Barker | Great Britain | 5766 |
| 205 | Joseph English | Great Britain | 5813 |
| 206 | Jozsef Haluzsinszky | Hungary | 5817 |
| 207 | Lester Stevens | USA | 5843 |
| 208 | Samuel Hurdsfield | Great Britain | 5943 |
| 209 | Samuel Stevenson | Great Britain | 5944 |
| 210 | Sydney Sarel | Great Britain | 5965 |
| 211 | Thomas Downing | Great Britain | 5969 |
| 212 | W. Grantham | Great Britain | 5994 |
| 213 | William Prout | USA | 6001 |
| 214 | Frigyes Wiesner-Mezei | Hungary | 6023 |
| 215 | Knut Stenborg | Sweden | 6024 |
| 216 | Fernand Halbart | Belgium | 6122 |
| 217 | Coen van Veenhuijsen | Netherlands | 6157 |
| 218 | Odon Holits | Hungary | 6242 |
| 219 | Arthur Hoffmann | Germany | 6312 |
| 220 | Bram Evers | Netherlands | 6313 |
| 221 | Emmerich Rath | Austria | 6322 |
| 222 | Fred Lord | Great Britain | 6359 |
| 223 | Sven Laftman | Sweden | 6383 |
| 224 | Arthur Halligan | Great Britain | 6438 |
| 225 | Georges Dubois | France | 6486 |
| 226 | Jacobus Hoogveld | Netherlands | 6641 |
| 227 | Vilmos Racz | Hungary | 6647 |
| 228 | Victor Henny | Netherlands | 6669 |
| 229 | Alan Patterson | Great Britain | 6670 |
| 230 | Arne Hojme | Denmark | 6673 |
| 231 | Jan Huijgen | Netherlands | 6696 |
| 232 | Jo Goetzee | Netherlands | 6697 |
| 233 | Al Bellerby | Great Britain | 6703 |
| 234 | Alfred Yeoumans | Great Britain | 6709 |
| 235 | Piet Soudyn | Netherlands | 6716 |
| 236 | Cornelis den Held | Netherlands | 6765 |
| 237 | Mikhail Paskhalidis | Greece | 6775 |
| 238 | Umberto Barozzi | Italy | 6776 |
| 239 | Arthur Astley | Great Britain | 6810 |
| 240 | Christopher Chavasse | Great Britain | 6834 |
| 241 | Don Buddo | Canada | 6849 |
| 242 | Folke Hellstedt | Sweden | 6862 |
| 243 | Fred de Selding | USA | 6869 |
| 244 | Otto Trieloff | Germany | 6979 |
| 245 | R.C. Robb | Great Britain | 6988 |
| 246 | Richard Wilhelm | Germany | 6997 |
| 247 | Roberto Penna | Italy | 7001 |
| 248 | William Goldsboro | Canada | 7054 |
| 249 | James Beale | Great Britain | 7229 |
| 250 | Arie Vosbergen | Netherlands | 7243 |
| 251 | Fredrik Svanstrom | Finland | 7345 |
| 252 | George Butterfield | Great Britain | 7350 |
| 253 | John McGough | Great Britain | 7402 |
| 254 | Wilf Bleaden | Great Britain | 7558 |
| 255 | Oscar Larsen | Norway | 7579 |
| 256 | Odon Bodor | Hungary | 7592 |
| 257 | Henry Pankhurst | Great Britain | 7633 |
| 258 | Pal Simon | Hungary | 7651 |
| 259 | Victor Jacquemin | Belgium | 7652 |
| 260 | Axel Johannes Petersen | Denmark | 7679 |
| 261 | Jean Konings | Belgium | 7733 |
| 262 | M. Chapman | Great Britain | 7763 |
| 263 | William Watt | Great Britain | 7818 |
| 264 | Kjeld Nielsen | Denmark | 7923 |
| 265 | Georg Lind | Russia | 8040 |
| 266 | George Mayberry | Great Britain | 8041 |
| 267 | Herman van Leeuwen | Netherlands | 8062 |
| 268 | Paul Lizandier | France | 8154 |
| 269 | Willem Wakker | Netherlands | 8257 |
| 270 | Arvid Ringstrand | Sweden | 8514 |
| 271 | Bill Brown | Great Britain | 8610 |
| 272 | Geza Kovesdi | Hungary | 8681 |
| 273 | Henri Gutierrez | France | 8703 |
| 274 | James O'Connell | USA | 8723 |
| 275 | John Reid | Great Britain | 8739 |
| 276 | Lionel Cornish | Great Britain | 8769 |
| 277 | Richard Quinn | Great Britain | 8831 |
| 278 | Paul Nettelbeck | Germany | 9125 |
| 279 | Ted Savage | Canada | 9157 |
| 280 | Joseph Lynch | Australia | 9193 |
| 281 | Jacques Keyser | Netherlands | 9233 |
| 282 | Wilhelmus Braams | Netherlands | 9236 |
| 283 | Nikolaos Kouloumberdas | Greece | 9239 |
| 284 | Axel Wiegandt | Sweden | 9260 |
| 285 | Herb Trube | USA | 9305 |
| 286 | William Coales | Great Britain | 9401 |
| 287 | Arthur Burn | Canada | 9472 |
| 288 | Francis Knott | Great Britain | 9503 |
| 289 | John Lee | Great Britain | 9533 |
| 290 | Stylianos Dimitriou | Greece | 9593 |
| 291 | Wilhelm Blystad | Norway | 9600 |
| 292 | Lionel Fournier | Canada | 9985 |
| 293 | Rudy Hansen | Denmark | 10355 |
| 294 | George Lister | Canada | 10481 |
| 295 | Francois Delloye | Belgium | 10606 |
| 296 | Joe Smith | Great Britain | 10728 |
| 297 | Joseph Dreher | France | 10734 |
| 298 | Henk van der Wal | Netherlands | 10868 |
| 299 | Ragnar Stenberg | Finland | 10887 |
| 300 | Ernestus Greven | Netherlands | 10889 |
| 301 | Victor Aitken | Australia | 11087 |
| 302 | Fred Appleby | Great Britain | 11160 |
| 303 | Giuseppe Tarella | Italy | 11161 |
| 304 | Noel Chavasse | Great Britain | 11208 |
| 305 | Tom Longboat | Canada | 11238 |
| 306 | Axel Andersson | Sweden | 11630 |
| 307 | Jack Price | Great Britain | 11654 |
| 308 | Bertie Thompson | Great Britain | 11812 |
| 309 | Harry Barrett | Great Britain | 12130 |
| 310 | Mike Ryan (USA) | USA | 12142 |
| 311 | Edi Schonecker | Austria | 12145 |
| 312 | Arno Hesse | Germany | 12171 |
| 313 | Dave Beland | Canada | 12184 |
| 314 | Fritz Reiser | Germany | 12206 |
| 315 | G. Lamotte | France | 12207 |
| 316 | Hans Eicke | Germany | 12214 |
| 317 | Harry Watson | Great Britain | 12215 |
| 318 | Heinrich Rehder | Germany | 12216 |
| 319 | L. Lescat | France | 12241 |
| 320 | Nils Dahl | Norway | 12262 |
| 321 | Willy Kohlmey | Germany | 12295 |
| 322 | Alex Duncan | Great Britain | 12566 |
| 323 | Umberto Blasi | Italy | 12805 |
| 324 | Thomas Jack | Great Britain | 12880 |
| 325 | Charles Swain | Australia | 12926 |
| 326 | Frank Riley | USA | 12931 |
| 327 | Albert Wyatt | Great Britain | 13290 |
| 328 | Eddie Cotter | Canada | 13407 |
| 329 | Francois Celis | Belgium | 13412 |
| 330 | Fred Noseworthy | Canada | 13414 |
| 331 | George Buff | Netherlands | 13415 |
| 332 | James Mitchell Baker | South Africa | 13423 |
| 333 | Johan Lindqvist | Sweden | 13424 |
| 334 | Tom Morrissey | USA | 13449 |
| 335 | Bertie Phillips | South Africa | 13699 |
| 336 | William Murray (GB) | Great Britain | 13748 |
| 337 | Edgar Kiralfy | USA | 14263 |
| 338 | Henry Harmer | Great Britain | 14268 |
| 339 | Paul Fischer | Germany | 14284 |
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