The Top Ranked Track & Field Athletes of All-Time by Rookie Year-1956

 

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Ranking Explanation

 

The Top Ranked Track & Field Athletes of All-Time by Rookie Year-1956

 

Rnk Athlete Nation Overall Rank
1 Al Oerter USA 9
2 Bobby Joe Morrow USA 67
3 Glenn Davis USA 72
4 Lee Calhoun USA 76
5 Volodymyr Kuts Ukraine 82
6 Mamo Wolde Ethiopia 97
7 Bill Nieder USA 137
8 Rafer Johnson USA 150
9 Abdon Pamich Croatia 165
10 Murray Halberg New Zealand 207
11 Zdzislaw Krzyszkowiak Poland 218
12 Hal Connolly USA 224
13 Pyotr Bolotnikov Russia 228
14 Don Thompson Great Britain 247
15 Norman Read New Zealand 259
16 Charlie Dumas USA 289
17 Egil Danielsen Norway 332
18 Ronnie Delany Ireland 339
19 Charlie Jenkins USA 381
20 Greg Bell USA 409
21 Leonid Spirin Russia 444
22 Tom Courtney USA 485
23 Yang C.K. Chinese Taipei 593
24 Dieter Lindner Germany 650
25 Michel Jazy France 652
26 Vilhjalmur Einarsson Iceland 682
27 Oleg Fedoseyev Russia 739
28 Klaus Richtzenhain Germany 768
29 Charles Porter Australia 780
30 Antanas Mikenas Lithuania 801
31 Bob Gutowski USA 816
32 Derek Johnson Great Britain 832
33 Eddie Southern USA 837
34 John Bennett USA 885
35 Sandor Rozsnyoi Hungary 952
36 Yevgeny Maskinskov Russia 977
37 Igor Ter-Ovanesyan Ukraine 984
38 Vasily Kuznetsov Russia 992
39 Vitold Kreyer Russia 994
40 Allan Lawrence Australia 1026
41 Tadeusz Rut Poland 1039
42 Tom Farrell USA 1040
43 Dave Power Australia 1062
44 George Kerr Jamaica 1074
45 Anatoly Mikhaylov Russia 1098
46 Bill Dellinger USA 1100
47 Istvan Rozsavolgyi Hungary 1120
48 Kazimierz Zimny Poland 1129
49 Semyon Rzhishchin Russia 1156
50 Stan Vickers Great Britain 1157
51 Malcolm Spence South Africa 1170
52 Anatoly Samotsvetov Russia 1177
53 Hec Hogan Australia 1219
54 Derek Ibbotson Great Britain 1288
55 Des Koch USA 1290
56 Igor Kashkarov Russia 1343
57 Joel Shankle USA 1361
58 Josh Culbreath USA 1368
59 Marian Foik Poland 1468
60 Al Hall USA 1474
61 Martin Lauer Germany 1485
62 Stig Pettersson Sweden 1486
63 Ira Davis USA 1508
64 Manfred Preussger Germany 1512
65 Bill Sharpe USA 1518
66 Rolando Cruz Puerto Rico 1532
67 Milkha Singh India 1544
68 Laszlo Tabori Hungary 1582
69 Mike Agostini Trinidad & Tobago 1584
70 Dmytro Bondarenko Ukraine 1595
71 Dan Waern Sweden 1635
72 Yuriy Kutenko Ukraine 1641
73 Friedrich Janke Germany 1651
74 Lee Chang-Hun South Korea 1669
75 Manfred Steinbach Germany 1682
76 Paul Schmidt Germany 1685
77 Miklos Szabo (5K) Hungary 1690
78 Arnie Sowell USA 1715
79 Heinz Laufer Germany 1771
80 Ira Murchison USA 1777
81 Ken Bantum USA 1800
82 Uno Palu Estonia 1864
83 Albie Thomas Australia 1899
84 Manfred Germar Germany 1921
85 Keith Gardner Jamaica 1978
86 Boris Tokarev Russia 2064
87 Brian Hewson Great Britain 2145
88 Boris Belyayev Russia 2179
89 David Lean Australia 2196
90 Jan Kopyto Poland 2252
91 Ken Money Canada 2275
92 Ken Norris Great Britain 2276
93 Lou Jones USA 2287
94 Martin Rehak Czech Republic 2289
95 Michael Farrell Great Britain 2291
96 Yoshiaki Kawashima Japan 2367
97 Alex Oakley Canada 2374
98 Erik Uddebom Sweden 2400
99 Nyandika Maiyoro Kenya 2487
100 Ivan Cherniavskiy Ukraine 2511
101 Ryszard Malcherczyk Poland 2515
102 Matti Sutinen Finland 2541
103 Kazimierz Kropidlowski Poland 2552
104 Walter Meier Germany 2556
105 Kreso Racic Croatia 2595
106 Boris Stolyarov Russia 2642
107 Gert Potgieter South Africa 2692
108 Giovanni Lievore Italy 2694
109 Lon Spurrier USA 2754
110 Ray Smith Australia 2784
111 Volodymyr Sitkin Ukraine 2816
112 Ghulam Raziq Pakistan 2856
113 Abdul Khaliq Pakistan 2857
114 Michel Macquet France 2891
115 Koji Sakurai Japan 2920
116 Aurele Vandendriessche Belgium 2932
117 Deacon Jones USA 2948
118 Kevan Gosper Australia 2977
119 Morrie Rae New Zealand 2979
120 Abdul Karim Amu Nigeria 3062
121 Emile Leva Belgium 3063
122 Mel Spence Jamaica 3069
123 Neville Scott New Zealand 3073
124 Evaristo Iglesias Cuba 3076
125 Bert Steines Germany 3098
126 Colin Ridgeway Australia 3111
127 Dmytro Yegorov Russia 3128
128 Guy Cury France 3162
129 Ilie Savel Romania 3179
130 Ivan Filin Russia 3183
131 Karl-Heinz Wegmann Germany 3210
132 Leo Pohl Germany 3216
133 Neil Robbins Australia 3239
134 Phil Reavis USA 3251
135 Torbjorn Lassenius Finland 3279
136 Tom Robinson Bahamas 3301
137 Georgios Tsakanikas Greece 3308
138 Kim Bukhantsov Russia 3324
139 Kari Rahkamo Finland 3413
140 Dako Radosevic Bosnia & Herzegovina 3423
141 Eric Shirley Great Britain 3464
142 Albert Johnson (GBR) Great Britain 3465
143 Aleksandr Gorshkov Russia 3492
144 Bill Butchart Australia 3516
145 Ian Boyd Great Britain 3584
146 Teruji Kogake Japan 3666
147 Bartonjo Rotich Kenya 3757
148 Mal Spence Jamaica 3767
149 Eric Hall Great Britain 3784
150 Ken Wilmshurst Great Britain 3794
151 Vilem Mandlik Czech Republic 3922
152 Barry Donath Australia 3957
153 Giulio Chiesa Italy 4009
154 Harry Kane Great Britain 4021
155 Heiner Will Germany 4022
156 John Salisbury Great Britain 4052
157 Julius Chigbolu Nigeria 4065
158 Ken Wood Great Britain 4070
159 Lajos Szentgali Hungary 4076
160 Mike Rawson Great Britain 4103
161 Peter Higgins Great Britain 4128
162 Roy Cruttenden Great Britain 4147
163 Stan Levenson Canada 4161
164 Thomas Nilsson Sweden 4173
165 Vladimir Bulatov Russia 4189
166 Silvano Meconi Italy 4212
167 Ted Allsopp Australia 4213
168 Eino Oksanen Finland 4222
169 Georgios Papavasileiou Greece 4228
170 Ion Barbu Romania 4283
171 Alfons Niklas Poland 4374
172 Gerald Carr Great Britain 4431
173 John Cann Australia 4458
174 Phil Conley USA 4508
175 Vern Wilson USA 4550
176 Ronald Crawford Australia 4569
177 Yury Konovalov Azerbaijan 4578
178 Pavel Kantorek Czech Republic 4579
179 Ivan Rodriguez Puerto Rico 4612
180 Maurice Fournier France 4638
181 Ioannis Kambadelis Greece 4660
182 Arnold Vaide Sweden 4683
183 Ian Bruce Australia 4698
184 Siegfried Herrmann Germany 4747
185 Anatoly Petrov Russia 4773
186 Danie Burger South Africa 4805
187 Elliott Denman USA 4825
188 Gunther Kruse Argentina 4861
189 Jean-Claude Bernard France 4902
190 Robert Hanlin Australia 4980
191 Ross Parker Australia 4988
192 David Segal Great Britain 5049
193 Merv Lincoln Australia 5106
194 Fermin Donazar Uruguay 5114
195 Barclay Palmer Great Britain 5179
196 Don Anthony Great Britain 5199
197 Nadjmeddin Farabi Iran 5293
198 Patrick Etolu Uganda 5305
199 Yukio Ishikawa Japan 5357
200 Zbigniew Janiszewski Poland 5359
201 Leonid Barteniev Ukraine 5391
202 Keiji Ogushi Japan 5397
203 Guy Husson France 5399
204 Terry Tobacco Canada 5443
205 Phil Coleman USA 5482
206 Fanie du Plessis South Africa 5542
207 Graham Gipson Australia 5557
208 Hiroshi Shibata Japan 5558
209 Jan Jarzembowski Poland 5602
210 Bob Shaw Great Britain 5670
211 Eamonn Kinsella Ireland 5703
212 Geoff Goodacre Australia 5737
213 Ilkka Auer Finland 5774
214 Jim Bailey Australia 5793
215 Luigi Gnocchi Italy 5849
216 Paavo Kotila Finland 5895
217 Pierre Haarhoff France 5904
218 Sandor Krasznai Hungary 5945
219 Vasily Vlasenko Russia 5979
220 Vitaliy Chernobai Ukraine 5988
221 Vladimir Loshchilov Russia 5992
222 Walter Konrad Germany 5995
223 Evangelos Depastas Greece 6030
224 Ajit Singh India 6032
225 Muhammad Nawaz Pakistan 6079
226 Grigory Klimov Russia 6103
227 Janos Somogyi Hungary 6203
228 Mercer Davies South Africa 6233
229 Mikhail Lavrov Russia 6235
230 Milan Skront Czech Republic 6236
231 Raymond Thomas France 6253
232 Velisa Mugosa Croatia 6275
233 Yoshiro Sonoda Japan 6281
234 Birger Asplund Sweden 6309
235 Mesulame Rakuro Fiji 6389
236 Benny Garcia USA 6445
237 Ernie Haisley Jamaica 6475
238 Harry Hicks Great Britain 6498
239 Mohinder Singh India 6565
240 Eric Battista France 6651
241 Bruce MacDonald USA 6652
242 Gianfranco Baraldi Italy 6655
243 Arere Anentia Kenya 6689
244 Ramon Sandoval Chile 6744
245 Andre Ballieux Belgium 6801
246 Bob Grant Australia 6819
247 Hideo Hamamura Japan 6893
248 Ling Te-Sheng Chinese Taipei 6942
249 Song Gyo-Sik South Korea 7020
250 Yevgeny Sokolov Lithuania 7057
251 Josef Trousil Czech Republic 7100
252 Muhammad Ramzan Ali Pakistan 7107
253 John Chittick Australia 7179
254 Klaus Porbadnik Germany 7225
255 Jorge de Barros Brazil 7237
256 Kanji Akagi Japan 7242
257 Albert Richards New Zealand 7254
258 Bruce Peever Australia 7293
259 Ciriaco Baronda Philippines 7306
260 Edmund Turton Trinidad & Tobago 7324
261 Heinz Futterer Germany 7370
262 James Hewson USA 7382
263 Jim Lea USA 7390
264 Jurgen Kuhl Germany 7411
265 Mike Wheeler Great Britain 7452
266 Paul Engo Nigeria 7481
267 Yevgeny Kadyaykin Russia 7567
268 Yoshio Kojima Japan 7568
269 Leon Syrovatski France 7596
270 Choi Yeong-Gi South Korea 7603
271 Pierre Alard France 7624
272 Seo Yeong-Ju South Korea 7644
273 Gordon McKenzie USA 7660
274 Alejandro Diaz Chile 7668
275 John Russell Australia 7739
276 Joseph Leresae Kenya 7743
277 Peter Denton Australia 7790
278 Tapio Lehto Finland 7806
279 Jerzy Chromik Poland 7861
280 Rune Ahlund Sweden 7862
281 Johnny J. Kelley USA 7868
282 Kalim Khawaja Ghani Pakistan 7870
283 Hannu Rantala Finland 7877
284 Lothar Beckert Germany 7950
285 Alexandre Yankoff France 7961
286 Charlie Morris Australia 7994
287 Graham Thomas Australia 8051
288 Michael Moroney Australia 8127
289 Muhammad Ayub Pakistan 8137
290 Ovidio de Jesus Puerto Rico 8151
291 Ron Blackney Australia 8182
292 Sergey Sukhanov Russia 8191
293 Ulisses dos Santos Brazil 8210
294 Vincent Gabriel Nigeria 8213
295 Lawrence Ogwang Uganda 8271
296 Dave Stephens (AUS) Australia 8320
297 Neville Gadsden Australia 8396
298 Nick Costes USA 8397
299 Peter Cullen Great Britain 8407
300 Ves Balodis Australia 8429
301 Eduardo Fontecilla Chile 8443
302 Rafael Romero Venezuela 8444
303 Abdullah Khan Pakistan 8477
304 Konstantin Grachev Russia 8489
305 Roy Sandstrom Great Britain 8492
306 Ben Nduga Uganda 8564
307 Bob Joyce Australia 8612
308 Dick Hart USA 8646
309 Dimitrios Konstantinidis Greece 8649
310 Edward Szmidt Poland 8660
311 Guillermo Zapata Colombia 8686
312 Jean-Paul Martin-du-Gard France 8730
313 Jim Achurch Australia 8733
314 Ken Box Great Britain 8753
315 Kibet Boit Kenya 8757
316 Martin Crowe Australia 8785
317 Murray Cockburn Canada 8805
318 Ray Land Australia 8828
319 Sergio D'Asnasch Italy 8850
320 Shigeharu Suzuki Japan 8853
321 Sri Chand Ram India 8855
322 Doug Kyle Canada 8885
323 Fumio Kamamoto Japan 9023
324 Jerome Walters USA 9056
325 Olavi Salsola Finland 9121
326 Peter Esiri Nigeria 9128
327 Ram Mehar India 9136
328 Ted Wheeler USA 9158
329 Brian Oliver Australia 9266
330 Gian Mario Roveraro Italy 9298
331 Konstantin Lissenko France 9330
332 Marcel Lambrechts Belgium 9410
333 Muhammad Yaqub Pakistan 9427
334 Pablo Somblingo Philippines 9455
335 Gabuh bin Piging Malaysia 9508
336 Hugh Jack Australia 9517
337 Jagdev Singh India 9527
338 John Vernon Australia 9534
339 Maridjo Wirjodemedjo Indonesia 9544
340 Myitung Naw Myanmar 9617
341 Abebe Hailou Ethiopia 9648
342 David Kushnir Israel 9656
343 Joao Pires Sobrinho Brazil 9661
344 Hilmar Torbjornsson Iceland 9682
345 Clive Bonas Venezuela 9754
346 Kyohei Ushio Japan 9755
347 Rene Ahumada Mexico 9762
348 Bjorn Nilsen Norway 9772
349 Dick Harding Canada 9839
350 Douglas Winston Australia 9843
351 Franco Galbiati Italy 9875
352 Geza Varasdi Hungary 9893
353 John Goodman Australia 9937
354 Jonas Pipyne Lithuania 9946
355 Kamau Wanyoke Kenya 9962
356 Keith Ollerenshaw Australia 9966
357 Laird Sloan Canada 9976
358 Ronald Gray Australia 10068
359 Sinnayah Karuppiah Jarabalan Malaysia 10086
360 Sim Sang-Ok South Korea 10191
361 Mahmoud Jan Pakistan 10193
362 Bengt Nilsson Sweden 10237
363 Wu Chun-Tsai Chinese Taipei 10387
364 I Gusti Putu Okamona Indonesia 10495
365 Maurice Rich Australia 10524
366 Jalal Gozal Indonesia 10631
367 Kurt Hartung Germany 10749
368 Sium bin Diau Malaysia 10810
369 Tsai Cheng-Fu Chinese Taipei 10824
370 Vladimir Polyakov Russia 10829
371 Wilhelm Porrassalmi Finland 10833
372 Bashay Feleke Ethiopia 10914
373 Muhammad Rashid Pakistan 11107
374 George Johnson Liberia 11246
375 Kurao Hiroshima Japan 11276
376 Arap Sum Kanuti Kenya 11325
377 Don Bowden USA 11400
378 Edward Martins Liberia 11404
379 Kiptalam Keter Kenya 11476
380 Manikavagasam Harichandra Malaysia 11498
381 Tan Eng Yoon Singapore 11605
382 Gebre Birkay Ethiopia 11645
383 Torgny Wahlander Sweden 11712
384 Beyene Legesse Ethiopia 11731
385 Juan Silva Chile 11741
386 Ajanew Bayene Ethiopia 11742
387 Somsakdi Tongaram Thailand 11775
388 Abdul Rahim bin Ahmed Malaysia 11786
389 Albert Ivanov Estonia 12021
390 Boris Grishayev Russia 12034
391 Dean Thackwray USA 12041
392 Giuseppe Lavelli Italy 12054
393 Im Hwa-Dong South Korea 12061
394 Jan Barnard South Africa 12064
395 Ron Clark Great Britain 12105
396 Akira Kiyofuji Japan 12311
397 Pentti Rekola Finland 12315
398 Phaibulya Vacharabhan Thailand 12316
399 Somnuek Srisombati Thailand 12322
400 Oliver Hunter Guyana 12334
401 Joe Foreman Canada 12401
402 James Roberts Liberia 12490
403 Emmanuel Putu Liberia 12496
404 Kenneth Perera Malaysia 12515
405 Joe Goddard Trinidad & Tobago 12533
406 Kesevan Soon Singapore 12534
407 Alain David France 12564
408 Gavin Carragher Australia 12611
409 Mario Colarossi Italy 12663
410 Phol Jaiswang Thailand 12688
411 Horst Mann Germany 13213
412 Manum Bumroongpruck Thailand 13465
413 Roba Negousse Ethiopia 13619
414 Jack Parrington Canada 13622
415 Giovanni Ghiselli Italy 13647
416 Richard Estick Jamaica 13666
417 Sandor Jakabfy Hungary 13669
418 Lee Kah Fook Malaysia 13761
419 Thomas Obi Nigeria 13843
420 Vanchak Voradilok Thailand 13847
421 Eero Kivela Finland 14310
422 Montri Srinaka Thailand 14320
423 Raja bin Ngah Ali Malaysia 14355
424 Snay Wongchaoom Thailand 14358
425 Apolinar Solorzano Venezuela 14553

 


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