The Top Ranked Track & Field Athletes of All-Time by Rookie Year-1928

 

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Ranking Explanation

 

The Top Ranked Track & Field Athletes of All-Time by Rookie Year-1928

 

Rnk Athlete Nation Overall Rank
1 Percy Williams Canada 61
2 Pat O'Callaghan Ireland 77
3 Chuhei Nanbu Japan 168
4 Luigi Beccali Italy 181
5 John Anderson South Africa 279
6 Ed Gordon USA 295
7 Toivo Loukola Finland 305
8 Harri Larva Finland 310
9 Bob King USA 375
10 Ed Hamm USA 394
11 Erik Lundqvist Sweden 397
12 Johnny Kuck USA 432
13 Ray Barbuti USA 467
14 Sabin Carr USA 474
15 Akilles Jarvinen Finland 523
16 Alex Wilson Canada 547
17 Eric Svensson Sweden 629
18 Harlow Rothert USA 724
19 Jimmy Ball Canada 750
20 Antero Kivi Finland 802
21 Bela Szepes Slovakia 806
22 Ben Hedges USA 808
23 Bill Droegemueller USA 810
24 Frank Cuhel USA 847
25 Herman Brix USA 872
26 Jack London Guyana 877
27 Jules Ladoumegue France 894
28 Levi Casey USA 912
29 Steve Anderson USA 954
30 Phil Edwards Guyana 982
31 Frantisek Douda Czech Republic 1019
32 Simeon Toribio Philippines 1071
33 Emil Hirschfeld Germany 1075
34 Eino Purje Finland 1090
35 Eino Penttila Finland 1163
36 Charles McGinnis USA 1181
37 Claude Menard France 1194
38 Olav Sunde Norway 1198
39 Helmut Kornig Germany 1208
40 Jochen Buchner Germany 1209
41 Al Bates USA 1252
42 Ed Black USA 1295
43 Georg Lammers Germany 1322
44 Hermann Engelhard Germany 1340
45 Jim Corson USA 1355
46 John Collier USA 1363
47 Ken Doherty USA 1371
48 Martti Marttelin Finland 1389
49 Ove Andersen Finland 1401
50 Jules Noel France 1463
51 Jean-Gunnar Lindgren Sweden 1470
52 Frank Wykoff USA 1552
53 Nils Eklof Sweden 1625
54 Erwin Huber Germany 1648
55 Harald Stenerud Norway 1652
56 Eric Krenz USA 1745
57 Hans Wichmann Germany 1766
58 James Stewart USA 1781
59 John Rinkel Great Britain 1793
60 Kanematsu Yamada Japan 1796
61 Leighton Dye USA 1807
62 Leo Lermond USA 1810
63 Paavo Liettu Finland 1833
64 Willi Meier Germany 1874
65 Lee Bartlett USA 1960
66 George Weightman-Smith South Africa 1985
67 Armas Wahlstedt Finland 1993
68 Ragnar Magnusson Sweden 2013
69 Seiichiro Tsuda Japan 2015
70 Erich Kochermann Germany 2068
71 Johnny Fitzpatrick Canada 2072
72 Willie Legg South Africa 2084
73 Istvan Donogan Hungary 2113
74 Toimi Tulikoura Finland 2123
75 Arthur Muggridge Great Britain 2169
76 Bruno Schlokat Germany 2182
77 Don Gwinn USA 2203
78 Harry Storz Germany 2235
79 Henri Dartigues France 2236
80 Thomas Livingston-Learmonth Great Britain 2340
81 Tom Churchill USA 2343
82 Sera Martin France 2454
83 Kazuo Kimura Japan 2468
84 Federico Kleger Argentina 2477
85 Armas Kinnunen Finland 2532
86 Frank Connor USA 2539
87 Yonetaro Nakazawa Japan 2584
88 Bob McAllister USA 2639
89 Eino Kentta Finland 2672
90 Erkki Jarvinen Finland 2674
91 Hermon Phillips USA 2706
92 Jakob Schuller Germany 2717
93 Wilhelm Uebler Germany 2819
94 Jozsef Daranyi Hungary 2865
95 Henry Lindblad Sweden 2953
96 Sid Bowman USA 2958
97 Whitey Michelsen USA 2960
98 Laszlo Barsi Hungary 2966
99 Stanislavs Petkevics Latvia 3014
100 Ludwig Wessely Austria 3030
101 Andre Cherrier France 3089
102 Earl Fuller USA 3135
103 Eric Wennstrom Sweden 3143
104 Ernst Paulus Germany 3146
105 Hank Russell USA 3163
106 Hans-Helmuth Krause Germany 3166
107 Henry Cumming USA 3173
108 Hubert Houben Germany 3177
109 Johnny Gibson USA 3201
110 Melvin Dalton USA 3227
111 Stan Lay New Zealand 3272
112 Yrjo Korholin-Koski Finland 3297
113 Cliff Bricker Canada 3326
114 Jean Keller France 3340
115 Johan Meimer Estonia 3405
116 Johan Trandem Norway 3406
117 Kosaku Sumiyoshi Japan 3407
118 Albert Andersson Sweden 3439
119 Adolf Kittel Czech Republic 3455
120 Bert Johnston Great Britain 3515
121 Janos Karlovits Hungary 3595
122 Kalle Matilainen Finland 3610
123 Ricardo Bayer Chile 3648
124 Otto Peltzer Germany 3698
125 Julius Muller Germany 3754
126 Bengt Sjostedt Finland 3782
127 Cyril Gill Great Britain 3803
128 Wally Beavers Great Britain 3811
129 Andre Adelheim France 3849
130 Rene Feger France 3881
131 Mario Gomez Mexico 3904
132 William Whyte Australia 3905
133 Albert Lamppu Finland 3934
134 Brian Oddie Great Britain 3969
135 Claude Bracey USA 3977
136 Fred Weicker USA 4000
137 Jan Blankers Netherlands 4034
138 Richard Corts Germany 4139
139 Nello Bartolini Italy 4289
140 Macauley Smith USA 4323
141 Aksel Nikolajsen Denmark 4368
142 Arthur Sager USA 4382
143 Brant Little Canada 4388
144 Carl Ring USA 4392
145 Hans Steinhardt Germany 4438
146 Jose Culi Spain 4461
147 Laurence Bond Great Britain 4475
148 Norman Biddulph Great Britain 4495
149 Olle Hallberg Sweden 4498
150 Ray Conger USA 4514
151 Suttie Smith Great Britain 4540
152 Walter Gegan USA 4555
153 Wilhelm Ladewig Germany 4559
154 Juan Bautista Pina Argentina 4732
155 Bjorn Kugelberg Sweden 4786
156 Edouard Duhour France 4820
157 Einar Tommelstad Norway 4824
158 Erich Stoschek Germany 4830
159 Frederick Chauncy Great Britain 4847
160 Fritz Kopke Germany 4848
161 Georges Krotoff France 4851
162 Harry Simmons Great Britain 4869
163 Harry Wood Great Britain 4870
164 Heikki Taskinen Finland 4873
165 Herbert Adolfsson Sweden 4879
166 Hugo Barth Germany 4886
167 Kornel Kesmarki Hungary 4921
168 Lloyd Bourgeois USA 4932
169 Robert Maxwell USA 4981
170 Doral Pilling Canada 5201
171 George Constable Great Britain 5218
172 Herbert Bocher Germany 5232
173 Janis Jordans Latvia 5244
174 Kenneth Caskey USA 5264
175 Nikolai Feldmann Estonia 5295
176 Tatsuo Toki Japan 5334
177 Verner Laaksonen Finland 5347
178 Johannes Viljoen South Africa 5363
179 Alf Watson Australia 5370
180 Renos Frangoudis Greece 5390
181 Evangelos Moiropoulos Greece 5401
182 Johann Bartl Czech Republic 5431
183 Arturo Pena Spain 5499
184 Erik Kjellstrom Sweden 5501
185 Ralph Adams Canada 5511
186 Gijs Lamoree Netherlands 5516
187 Reg Thomas Great Britain 5527
188 Andre Cerbonney France 5586
189 Alberto Barucco Argentina 5590
190 Billy Green Great Britain 5668
191 Charley Borah USA 5686
192 Edgard Viseur Belgium 5704
193 Emil Snider USA 5710
194 Emile Swinnen Belgium 5711
195 Gilbert Auvergne France 5746
196 Harry Payne Great Britain 5763
197 Henry Oliver Great Britain 5767
198 Hermann Schloske Germany 5770
199 Jesus Oyarbide Spain 5791
200 John Sittig USA 5806
201 Jozsef Marton Hungary 5818
202 Jukka Matilainen Finland 5821
203 Lance Percival Great Britain 5833
204 Nick Carter USA 5879
205 Otto Kohn Germany 5893
206 Otto Neumann Germany 5894
207 Robert Marchand France 5927
208 Roger Leigh-Wood Great Britain 5930
209 Stanley Ashby Great Britain 5954
210 Vernon Morgan Great Britain 5981
211 Johnny Miles Canada 6065
212 Imre Fekete Hungary 6091
213 Gerard Noel Belgium 6099
214 Age van der Zee Netherlands 6133
215 Hermann Hanchen Germany 6196
216 Sven Lundgren Sweden 6264
217 Yoshio Okita Japan 6384
218 Arturo Conturbia Switzerland 6440
219 Helmut Schloske Germany 6500
220 Steef van Musscher Netherlands 6603
221 Vilho Rinne Finland 6623
222 Martti Tolamo Finland 6645
223 Seghir Beddari Algeria 6736
224 Ion David Romania 6743
225 Alex Munroe Canada 6760
226 Alfonso de Gortari Mexico 6793
227 Alois Krof Czech Republic 6797
228 Arie Klaase Netherlands 6808
229 Bernard Lucas Great Britain 6816
230 Carl Axel Holger Petersen Denmark 6824
231 Fredy Muller Germany 6870
232 Guido Cominotto Italy 6884
233 Henrique Santos Portugal 6890
234 Kalman Egri Hungary 6924
235 Roger Pele France 7003
236 Wolf Boneder Germany 7056
237 Yoshio Miki Japan 7061
238 Konstantinos Petridis Greece 7109
239 Pierre Ramadier France 7120
240 Barney Berlinger USA 7279
241 Colin Gordon Great Britain 7311
242 Creth Hines USA 7314
243 Fritz Huhn Germany 7347
244 Robert Vintousky France 7506
245 Toon van Welsenes Netherlands 7539
246 Julien Serwy Belgium 7637
247 Hermann Brugmann Denmark 7638
248 Jozef Baran-Bilewski Poland 7744
249 Jules Herremans Belgium 7747
250 Leon Broers Belgium 7759
251 Rudi Dobermann Germany 7797
252 Hermann Geissler Austria 7844
253 Jose Lucilo Iturbe Mexico 7845
254 Karel Knenicky Czech Republic 7846
255 Jimmy Carlton Australia 7897
256 Serafín Dengra Argentina 7902
257 Anselmo Gonzaga Philippines 7918
258 Francois Prinsen Belgium 7919
259 Andries Hoogerwerf Netherlands 7937
260 Valerio Vallania Argentina 7941
261 Juichi Nagatani Japan 7946
262 Alexandru Fritz Romania 7962
263 Alister Clark Ireland 7963
264 Armand Lepaffe Belgium 7973
265 Carl van Geyzel Great Britain 7990
266 Charles Harlow USA 7992
267 David Griffin Canada 8001
268 Ferenc Orban Hungary 8025
269 Frederick Light Great Britain 8034
270 Geoffrey Turner Great Britain 8039
271 Georges Dupont France 8044
272 Giacomo Carlini Italy 8046
273 Hans Stelges Germany 8055
274 Henri Thesingh Netherlands 8060
275 Hermann Lemperle Germany 8063
276 Ioannis Karyofyllis Greece 8072
277 Istvan Raggambi Hungary 8074
278 Jerome Mannaert France 8083
279 Jesse Montgomery USA 8084
280 Joe Tierney USA 8089
281 Jozef Langenus Belgium 8094
282 Leo Helgas Finland 8113
283 Oscar Midtlyng Norway 8150
284 Reinhold Schmidt Germany 8170
285 Theo Phelan Ireland 8202
286 Willi Boltze Germany 8217
287 Angelos Lambrou Greece 8245
288 Danie Jacobs South Africa 8258
289 Auguste Vos Belgium 8307
290 Bob Kelley USA 8309
291 Art Keay Canada 8508
292 Arild Lenth Norway 8517
293 Jimmy Henigan USA 8536
294 Chavan Singh India 8629
295 Herb Bignall Great Britain 8706
296 Matyas Farkas Hungary 8787
297 Paddy Anglim Ireland 8813
298 Robert Howland Great Britain 8833
299 Jesus Moraila Mexico 8892
300 Gaston Etienne Belgium 8908
301 Gerry Coughlan Ireland 8944
302 Edouard Max-Robert France 9008
303 Ferenc Molnar Hungary 9017
304 Herman Larsen Denmark 9039
305 Jozef Koscak Slovakia 9075
306 Olaf Strand Norway 9120
307 Vincent Callard Canada 9174
308 Wilfred Kalaugher New Zealand 9212
309 Jean Gerault France 9313
310 Lajos Balogh Hungary 9331
311 Vilim Messner Croatia 9398
312 Abdul Hamid India 9433
313 Branko Kallay Croatia 9482
314 Gerrit Eijsker Netherlands 9511
315 Ilmari Kuokka Finland 9522
316 Guus Zeegers Netherlands 9659
317 Leopoldo Ledesma Argentina 9662
318 Aubrey Burton-Durham South Africa 9690
319 Alex Docherty Canada 9795
320 Andreas Paouris Greece 9809
321 Denis Cussen Ireland 9834
322 Ettore Tavernari Italy 9862
323 Fred Macbeth Canada 9882
324 Giuseppe Castelli Italy 9899
325 Hans Hoffmeister Germany 9908
326 Jaap Knol Netherlands 9926
327 John Hambidge Great Britain 9938
328 Jose Barrientos Cuba 9950
329 Max Tarnogrocki Germany 10008
330 Reidar Jorgensen Norway 10058
331 Gheorghe Csegezi Romania 10277
332 Hector Benapres Chile 10280
333 Silas McLellan Canada 10361
334 Viktoras Razaitis Lithuania 10376
335 Charles Alzieu France 10455
336 Ichiro Furuyama Japan 10499
337 Julius Petraitis Lithuania 10514
338 Otto Rottman Romania 10533
339 Otto Schop Romania 10621
340 Arie Kaan Netherlands 10656
341 Arie van Leeuwen Netherlands 10657
342 Con O'Callaghan Ireland 10670
343 Dave Abbott USA 10672
344 Douglas Neame Great Britain 10677
345 Frits Buhrman Netherlands 10689
346 Gunnar Fredriksen Norway 10699
347 Gunnar Hagen Norway 10700
348 Haydar Asan Turkey 10706
349 Howard Ford Great Britain 10711
350 Ion Haidu Romania 10713
351 Jacques Flouret France 10718
352 Jan Britstra Netherlands 10720
353 Joop Kamstra Netherlands 10731
354 Joop van der Leij Netherlands 10732
355 Lothar Albrich Romania 10755
356 Marcel Denis France 10758
357 Tiberiu Rusu Romania 10821
358 Virgil Ioan Romania 10828
359 George Hyde Australia 10860
360 Billy Kibblewhite Canada 10919
361 Charles Haworth USA 10927
362 Ciro Chapa Mexico 10931
363 Gurbachan Singh India 10964
364 Nol Wolf Netherlands 11032
365 Pieter Gerbrands Netherlands 11046
366 Percy Wyer Canada 11118
367 Henri Landheer Netherlands 11165
368 Jaroslav Vykoupil Czech Republic 11248
369 Edgardo Toetti Italy 11271
370 Jack Walter Canada 11272
371 Willy Dujardin Belgium 11278
372 Charles Stuart Australia 11296
373 Iwao Aizawa Japan 11309
374 Haris Sveminas Lithuania 11328
375 Jean Moulin Luxembourg 11329
376 Juan Serrahima Spain 11330
377 Czesław Forys Poland 11389
378 Dan Cullen Ireland 11390
379 Douglas Bell Great Britain 11401
380 Emile Langenraedt Belgium 11411
381 Gerrit Postma Netherlands 11428
382 John Hanlon Great Britain 11457
383 Jose Vicente Salinas Chile 11464
384 Klemens Biniakowski Poland 11477
385 Laszlo Magdics Hungary 11484
386 Luka Predanic Croatia 11493
387 Paul Hempel Germany 11535
388 Aurelio Terrazas Mexico 11628
389 Reginald Revans Great Britain 11697
390 Alfonso Garcia Mexico 11760
391 Willy Weibel Switzerland 11769
392 Ladislau Peter Romania 11779
393 Adolfas Akelaitis Lithuania 11791
394 Andr Dufau France 11799
395 Enrique de Chavarri Spain 11837
396 Feliks Malanowski Poland 11841
397 Frantisek Zyka Czech Republic 11844
398 Gerald Bertheloot Belgium 11851
399 Janos Paizs Hungary 11873
400 Philippe Coenjaerts Belgium 11931
401 Rodolfo Wagner Chile 11946
402 Willy Tschopp Switzerland 11969
403 Zdzislaw Nowak Poland 11978
404 Oscar Alvarado Chile 12009
405 Giuseppe Ferrera Italy 12053
406 Jose Torres Mexico 12235
407 Johan Stoa Norway 12403
408 Pete Walter Canada 12447
409 Wilhelm Effern Netherlands 12479
410 Jose da Costa Portugal 12642
411 James Cohen Great Britain 12847
412 Vasilios Stavrinos Greece 12892
413 Alfred Sutter Switzerland 12921
414 Matthew Steytler South Africa 12948
415 Wojciech Trojanowski Poland 12974
416 Feliks Zuber Poland 13049
417 Fernando Labourdette-Liaresq Spain 13051
418 Frederic du Hen Netherlands 13055
419 Gyula Belloni Hungary 13058
420 Harvey Frick USA 13059
421 Jeno Szalay Hungary 13077
422 Mor Gero Hungary 13115
423 Sid Robinson USA 13138
424 Jean Linssen Belgium 13218
425 Frank Hughes Canada 13310
426 Bill Agee USA 13403
427 Adolphe Groscol Belgium 13459
428 Jose de Lima Portugal 13461
429 R. Burns India 13466
430 Hans Niggl Switzerland 13484
431 Georg Hoerger Germany 13564
432 Antonios Mangos Greece 13638
433 J. Murphy India 13650
434 Kurt Schneider Germany 13654
435 Louis Schmit Luxembourg 13659
436 Fritz Eyschen Luxembourg 13679
437 Alex Hannig Chile 13685
438 Victor Villasenor Mexico 13744
439 Francisco Costas Mexico 13760
440 Dolf Benz Netherlands 13779
441 Franco Reyser Italy 13789
442 Jozsef Galambos Hungary 13805
443 Leo Jorgensen Denmark 13808
444 Risto Mattila Finland 13827
445 Sinasi Sahingiray Turkey 13835
446 Wim Hennings Netherlands 13849
447 Paul Gerhardt Germany 13916
448 Gottlieb Bach Denmark 13972
449 Emilio Ferrer Spain 14036
450 Dimitrije Stefanovic Hungary 14069
451 Joop Vermeulen Netherlands 14111
452 Pleun van Leenen Netherlands 14182
453 Joseph Marien Belgium 14234
454 Willem van der Steen Netherlands 14295
455 Aksel Madsen Denmark 14301
456 Attilio Conton Italy 14303
457 Axel Elofs Sweden 14304
458 Bram Groeneweg Netherlands 14306
459 Franz Wanderer Germany 14313
460 Karl Laas Estonia 14318
461 Orla Olsen Denmark 14324
462 Stefano Natale Italy 14334
463 Vintila Cristescu Romania 14335
464 Emmanuel Goldsmith Switzerland 14490
465 John Heap Great Britain 14498
466 Mehmet Ali Aybar Turkey 14501
467 Semih Turkdogan Turkey 14507
468 Eduardo Albe Argentina 14676
469 Fernando Munagorri Spain 14678
470 Georges Schmit Luxembourg 14679

 


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