The Top Ranked Track & Field Athletes of All-Time by Rookie Year-1964

 

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Ranking Explanation

 

The Top Ranked Track & Field Athletes of All-Time by Rookie Year-1964

 

Rnk Athlete Nation Overall Rank
1 Kip Keino Kenya 27
2 Mohamad Gammoudi Tunisia 86
3 Janis Lusis Latvia 100
4 Ludvik Danek Czech Republic 101
5 Randy Matson USA 152
6 Romuald Klim Belarus 154
7 Naftali Temu Kenya 166
8 Willie Davenport USA 169
9 Lynn Davies Great Britain 232
10 Wladyslaw Komar Poland 238
11 Christoph Hohne Germany 243
12 Billy Mills USA 323
13 Pauli Nevala Finland 325
14 Bob Hayes USA 374
15 Bob Schul USA 377
16 Fred Hansen USA 402
17 Henry Carr USA 415
18 Mike Larrabee USA 451
19 Rex Cawley USA 470
20 Willi Holdorf Germany 500
21 Hans-Georg Reimann Lithuania 552
22 Hans-Joachim Walde Germany 563
23 Wilson Kiprugut Kenya 564
24 Paul Nihill Great Britain 598
25 Jay Silvester USA 600
26 Harald Norpoth Germany 604
27 Jorma Kinnunen Finland 630
28 Kenji Kimihara Japan 635
29 Jim Ryun USA 690
30 Ed Caruthers USA 732
31 Josef Odlozil Czech Republic 736
32 Bill Crothers Canada 747
33 Benjamin Kogo Kenya 753
34 John Cooper Great Britain 755
35 Klaus Beer Germany 767
36 Rein Aun Estonia 770
37 Maurice Herriott Great Britain 773
38 Basil Heatley Great Britain 805
39 Blaine Lindgren USA 814
40 Paul Drayton USA 935
41 Wendell Mottley Trinidad & Tobago 972
42 Wolfgang Reinhardt Germany 976
43 Ron Clarke Australia 1014
44 Uwe Beyer Germany 1080
45 Vilmos Varju Hungary 1088
46 Andrzej Badenski Poland 1089
47 Edwin Roberts Trinidad & Tobago 1099
48 Eddy Ottoz France 1141
49 Kokichi Tsuburaya Japan 1168
50 Klaus Lehnertz Germany 1231
51 Dave Weill USA 1283
52 Ingvar Pettersson Sweden 1345
53 Ivan Bieliaiev Ukraine 1348
54 John Davies Great Britain 1364
55 John Rambo USA 1366
56 Viktor Kravchenko Russia 1443
57 Gary Knoke Australia 1471
58 Gerhard Sperling Germany 1493
59 Khristos Papanikolaou Greece 1519
60 Hartmut Losch Germany 1528
61 Amadou Gakou Senegal 1548
62 Wladyslaw Nikiciuk Poland 1614
63 Dieter Hoffmann Germany 1629
64 Valeriy Skvortsov Ukraine 1646
65 Burkhard Leuschke Germany 1689
66 Wieslaw Maniak Poland 1694
67 Alan Simpson Great Britain 1704
68 Paul Herman USA 1837
69 Wariboko West Nigeria 1872
70 Roger Bambuck France 1908
71 Sandor Eckschmiedt Hungary 1933
72 Bob Gardiner Australia 1983
73 Jozsef Suto Hungary 1998
74 Hennadiy Bleznitsov Ukraine 2008
75 John Whetton Great Britain 2042
76 Heinz Schumann Brazil 2070
77 John Pennel USA 2071
78 Serban Ciochina Romania 2094
79 Werner Trzmiel Germany 2132
80 Jean Cochard France 2151
81 Jay Luck USA 2254
82 Leonid Ivanov Ukraine 2283
83 Ulis Williams USA 2347
84 Yury Bakarinov Russia 2369
85 Ron Hill Great Britain 2393
86 Tegegne Bezabeh Ethiopia 2402
87 Mansour Dia Senegal 2421
88 Bo Forssander Sweden 2441
89 Roberto Frinolli Italy 2447
90 Mel Pender USA 2470
91 Gaoussou Kone Cote d'Ivoire 2505
92 Horst Beyer Germany 2587
93 Bill Baillie New Zealand 2636
94 Buddy Edelen USA 2645
95 Nikolay Karasyov Russia 2768
96 Ralf Drecoll Germany 2780
97 Tim Graham Great Britain 2803
98 Witold Baran Poland 2822
99 Michael Ahey Ghana 2836
100 Heinfried Birlenbach Germany 2867
101 Herve d'Encausse France 2876
102 Ed Burke USA 2884
103 Georgi Stoykovski Bulgaria 2950
104 Rolf Herings Germany 3001
105 Nikolay Dutov Russia 3058
106 Adolfas Aleksejunas Lithuania 3081
107 Boris Khrolovich Belarus 3101
108 Dick Stebbins USA 3122
109 Dieter Bogatzki Germany 3123
110 Pentti Nikula Finland 3245
111 Peter Vassella Australia 3250
112 Vasyl Anisimov Ukraine 3284
113 Jean-Louis Ravelomanantsoa Madagascar 3302
114 Jacques Pennewaert Belgium 3319
115 Leonid Barkovskiy Russia 3330
116 Lawrie Peckham Australia 3333
117 Amos Omolo Uganda 3362
118 Tony Cook Australia 3366
119 Andrzej Stalmach Poland 3372
120 Wilfried Geeroms Belgium 3450
121 Sergio Ottolina Italy 3470
122 Adolfas Varanauskas Lithuania 3485
123 Billy Gene Pemelton USA 3518
124 Edwin Skinner Trinidad & Tobago 3539
125 Giorgio Mazza Italy 3563
126 Hans-Jurgen Ruckborn Germany 3570
127 John Edgington Great Britain 3604
128 Lars-Erik Gustafsson Sweden 3618
129 Mykhailo Storozhenko Russia 3635
130 Thor Helland Norway 3667
131 Juan Carlos Dyrzka Argentina 3692
132 Ivan Moreno Chile 3699
133 Hinrich John Germany 3774
134 Jean Wadoux France 3777
135 Hiroomi Yamada Japan 3786
136 Ignacio Sola Spain 3819
137 Bob Lay Australia 3837
138 Robert Sainte-Rose France 3866
139 Ken Roche Australia 3878
140 Ben Assou El-Ghazi Morocco 3959
141 Gerry Lindgren USA 4006
142 Igor Feld Russia 4025
143 Jorg Juttner Germany 4053
144 Josef Matousek Czech Republic 4057
145 Ollan Cassell USA 4118
146 Peter Warden Great Britain 4129
147 Russ Hodge USA 4149
148 Gerry Moro Canada 4225
149 Howard Payne Great Britain 4229
150 Henrik Kalocsai Hungary 4236
151 Alvaro Mejia Colombia 4250
152 John Boulter Great Britain 4297
153 Demissie Wolde Ethiopia 4302
154 Franc Cervan Slovenia 4333
155 Chris Carter Great Britain 4348
156 Dick Emberger USA 4405
157 Ernie Pomfret Great Britain 4415
158 John Paddick Great Britain 4459
159 Khristos Pierrakos Greece 4471
160 Roy Hollingsworth Great Britain 4528
161 Stepan Baidiuk Ukraine 4537
162 Wolfgang Klein Germany 4561
163 Arnaldo Bristol Puerto Rico 4580
164 Arquimedes Herrera Venezuela 4622
165 Jaakko Tuominen Finland 4643
166 Hans Fahsl Germany 4649
167 Alexandr Bilek Czech Republic 4679
168 Bill Gairdner Canada 4684
169 Luis Maria Garriga Spain 4689
170 Robert Poirier France 4692
171 Lee Sang-Hun South Korea 4758
172 Pablo McNeil Jamaica 4759
173 Aleksandr Kontarev Russia 4768
174 Billy Hardin USA 4785
175 Ed Red USA 4819
176 Edward Czernik Poland 4821
177 Ferdinand Haas Germany 4840
178 Jeff Fishback USA 4903
179 John Morbey Great Britain 4911
180 Laurie Khan Jamaica 4926
181 Lazaro Betancourt Cuba 4927
182 Lynn Headley Jamaica 4938
183 Rudolf Langer Germany 4991
184 Vic Zwolak USA 5017
185 Wolf-Dieter Holtz Germany 5023
186 Gennady Agapov Russia 5131
187 Henri Clerckx Belgium 5148
188 Evgeni Yordanov Bulgaria 5210
189 Gayle Hopkins USA 5215
190 Hans Schenk Germany 5223
191 Risto Ankio Finland 5321
192 Hideo Iijima Japan 5456
193 Tony Sneazwell Australia 5540
194 Frans Luitjes Netherlands 5581
195 Jean Fayolle France 5605
196 Edvins Zageris Latvia 5705
197 Francisco Aritmendi Spain 5724
198 Hirokazu Yasuda Japan 5772
199 Karl-Uno Olofsson Sweden 5825
200 Kent Bernard Trinidad & Tobago 5829
201 Lazar Naroditsky Ukraine 5837
202 Lech Boguszewicz Poland 5838
203 Pentti Eskola Finland 5901
204 Ray Middleton Great Britain 5912
205 Rein Tolp Estonia 5914
206 Tom O'Hara USA 5971
207 Zenji Okuzawa Japan 6014
208 Antal Kiss Hungary 6019
209 Antanas Vaupsas Lithuania 6142
210 Gunter Krivec Germany 6186
211 Taisto Laitinen Finland 6266
212 Teruo Funai Japan 6268
213 Zdzislaw Smolinski Poland 6282
214 Ahmed Issa Chad 6298
215 Wu Ah-Min Chinese Taipei 6302
216 James Addy Ghana 6318
217 Mike Parker Great Britain 6342
218 Lahcen Samsam Akka Morocco 6351
219 Jean Vaillant France 6367
220 Mamadou Sarr Senegal 6371
221 Jurgen May Germany 6402
222 Fritz Obersiebrasse Germany 6483
223 Istvan Gori Hungary 6506
224 Jean-Pierre Boccardo France 6511
225 Sergey Dyomin Russia 6596
226 Shosuke Suzuki Japan 6597
227 Toru Terasawa Japan 6615
228 Trent Jackson USA 6616
229 Noel Carroll Ireland 6667
230 Labidi Ayachi Tunisia 6735
231 Alfred Doring Germany 6794
232 Les Tipton USA 6941
233 Mamoru Morimoto Japan 6950
234 Mauro Bogliatto Italy 6958
235 Rainer Dorner Germany 6990
236 Slavko Span Slovenia 7019
237 Sunday Akpata Nigeria 7025
238 Denis Segui Kragbe Cote d'Ivoire 7082
239 Kazuo Saito Japan 7089
240 Kimaru Songok Kenya 7090
241 Josef Tomas Czech Republic 7116
242 Hansruedi Knill Switzerland 7148
243 Marian Dudziak Poland 7150
244 Kiyoo Yui Japan 7205
245 David Ejoke Nigeria 7213
246 Heinz Erbstosser Germany 7219
247 Simo Vazic Slovenia 7221
248 Adrian Metcalfe Great Britain 7251
249 Andrzej Zielinski Poland 7269
250 Clifford Nuttall Canada 7309
251 Folu Erinle Nigeria 7339
252 Giorgio Jegher Italy 7357
253 Jack Mortland USA 7379
254 Jean-Jacques Behm France 7386
255 Joachim Singer Germany 7392
256 Jorem Ochana Uganda 7405
257 Kestutis Orentas Lithuania 7420
258 Koech Kiprop Kenya 7426
259 Laurie Taitt Great Britain 7430
260 Mike Hogan Great Britain 7451
261 Raycho Tsonev Bulgaria 7499
262 Rupert Hoilette Jamaica 7515
263 Viktor Aksonov Ukraine 7547
264 Wolfgang Schillkowski Germany 7564
265 Thin Sumbwegam Myanmar 7647
266 Dramane Sereme Mali 7696
267 Hans-Helmut Trense Germany 7716
268 Jiri Zemba Czech Republic 7736
269 Martin Lotz Germany 7769
270 Mike Ralph Great Britain 7774
271 Vaclav Chudomel Czech Republic 7813
272 Yevgeny Lyungin Russia 7821
273 Werner Duttweiler Switzerland 7834
274 Manfred Letzerich Germany 7852
275 Stig Lindback Sweden 7883
276 Wellesley Clayton Jamaica 7891
277 Renato Dionisi Italy 7901
278 Taketsugu Saruwatari Japan 7904
279 Bill McKim Great Britain 7980
280 Derek McCleane Ireland 8006
281 Istvan Havasi Hungary 8073
282 Jozsef Macsar Hungary 8097
283 Maurice Lurot France 8125
284 Pal Benum Norway 8152
285 Rudi Koppen Germany 8184
286 Shohei Kasahara Japan 8194
287 Takashi Miki Japan 8198
288 Ramasamy Subramaniam Malaysia 8235
289 Erwin Stutz Switzerland 8255
290 Dave Stevenson Great Britain 8321
291 Ernst Soudek Austria 8333
292 Henri Elende Congo 8350
293 Koru Kawazu Japan 8374
294 Paavo Pystynen Finland 8402
295 Roine Karlsson Sweden 8414
296 Siegfried Rothe Germany 8422
297 Pedro Grajales Colombia 8442
298 Frank Covelli USA 8465
299 Sergio Bello Italy 8513
300 Antonio Ambu Italy 8538
301 Bengt Najde Sweden 8606
302 Bernard Fournet France 8609
303 Boguslaw Gierajewski Poland 8614
304 Boris Zubov Russia 8615
305 Chris McCarthy USA 8630
306 Fidel Negrete Mexico 8670
307 Gary Eddy Australia 8678
308 Johannes Schmitt Germany 8736
309 John Herring Great Britain 8738
310 Keiko Iijima Japan 8752
311 Kent Floerke USA 8755
312 Menzies Campbell Great Britain 8791
313 Mike Bullivant Great Britain 8797
314 Satsuo Iwashita Japan 8846
315 Teruo Itokawa Japan 8860
316 Volker Tulzer Austria 8870
317 Mieczyslaw Rutyna Poland 8886
318 Dieter Hartmann Germany 8999
319 Edward Szklarczyk Poland 9009
320 Fergus Murray Great Britain 9018
321 George Ogan Nigeria 9026
322 Henrik Hellen Finland 9038
323 Hideta Kanai Japan 9040
324 Hisao Morita Japan 9041
325 Im Ho-Geun South Korea 9044
326 Nikolay Tikhomirov Russia 9114
327 Pekka Juutilainen Finland 9126
328 Phil Shinnick USA 9130
329 Tadamasa Ejiri Japan 9153
330 Trevor Vincent Australia 9166
331 Lajos Mecser Hungary 9196
332 Askın Tuna Turkey 9200
333 Nashatar Singh Sidhu Malaysia 9202
334 Noboru Ishiguro Japan 9354
335 Park Su-Gwon South Korea 9361
336 Peter McArdle Ireland 9370
337 Shohei Kaneko Japan 9387
338 Lutz Philipp Germany 9409
339 Chedli El-Marghni Tunisia 9436
340 Alain Lefevre France 9462
341 Christian Ohiri Nigeria 9488
342 Heinrich Hagen Germany 9515
343 Im Dong-Sil South Korea 9523
344 Patricio Etcheverry Chile 9561
345 Ron Larrieu USA 9580
346 Roy Syversson Sweden 9581
347 Yoshimasa Torii Japan 9601
348 Mamo Sebsibe Ethiopia 9628
349 Neville Myton Jamaica 9636
350 Jon Olafsson Iceland 9678
351 Rolf Jelinek Switzerland 9697
352 Gary Holdsworth Australia 9745
353 Jeffery Smith Zambia 9774
354 Bernard Laidebeur France 9818
355 Denos Adjima Beche Cote d'Ivoire 9835
356 Derek Graham Great Britain 9836
357 Ebenezer Quartey Ghana 9845
358 Francois Chatelet France 9877
359 Graham Dean Great Britain 9901
360 Ignacio Reinosa Puerto Rico 9920
361 Jean Toffey Ekonian Cote d'Ivoire 9933
362 John Owiti Kenya 9942
363 Kiue Kuribayashi Japan 9968
364 Masashi Otsubo Japan 10004
365 Peter Francis Kenya 10044
366 Saburo Yokomizo Japan 10070
367 Stanley Allotey Ghana 10089
368 Viktor Bychkov Russia 10117
369 Rogelio Onofre Philippines 10142
370 Samir Vincent Iraq 10152
371 Simbara Maki Cote d'Ivoire 10153
372 Bruce Kidd Canada 10185
373 Roberto Abugattas Peru 10194
374 Valeriu Jurca Romania 10207
375 Akira Tanaka Japan 10220
376 Helmut Haid Austria 10281
377 Heriberto Cruz Puerto Rico 10284
378 Jose Cavero Peru 10295
379 Kuda Ditta Malaysia 10306
380 Nikolay Abramov Russia 10330
381 Satoshi Takayanagi Japan 10359
382 Jim Hogan Great Britain 10408
383 Kinya Miyazaki Japan 10516
384 Lyuben Gurgushinov Bulgaria 10522
385 Paul Coppejans Belgium 10536
386 Sayed Mirza Molimadail Iran 10552
387 Sumio Miwa Japan 10561
388 Yasuo Naito Japan 10575
389 Dilbagh Singh Kler Malaysia 10676
390 Eino Valle Finland 10682
391 Ilie Popa Romania 10712
392 Kateseperswasdi Bhakdikul Thailand 10741
393 Kim Byeong-Gi South Korea 10745
394 Marc Rabemila Madagascar 10757
395 Maurice Houvion France 10763
396 Wlodzimierz Sokolowski Poland 10835
397 Ibrahim Yazdan Panah Iran 10861
398 Michel Medinger Jr. Luxembourg 10864
399 Johan Du Preez Zimbabwe 10877
400 Ranatunge Karunananda Sri Lanka 10883
401 Basil Clifford Ireland 10915
402 Bill Earle Australia 10918
403 Fritz Roderfeld Germany 10955
404 Hartley Saunders Bahamas 10968
405 Hryhoriy Sverbetov Ukraine 10973
406 Ivan Belytskiy Ukraine 10981
407 Lars Haglund Sweden 11010
408 Mike Brodie USA 11024
409 Muhammad Sadiq Pakistan 11028
410 Oscar Moore USA 11040
411 Janos Pinter Hungary 11100
412 Fernando Aguilar Spain 11117
413 Mohamed Hadheb Hannachi Tunisia 11122
414 Hwang Jeong-Dae South Korea 11170
415 Pascal Mfyomi Tanzania 11212
416 Ricardo Vidal Chile 11222
417 Samuel Cruz Puerto Rico 11225
418 Chu Ming Hong Kong 11268
419 Jeong Gyo-Mo South Korea 11274
420 Joao de Rocha Portugal 11275
421 Carlos Lorenzo Mexico 11298
422 Ken Powell India 11310
423 Armit Pal India 11363
424 Bob Vagg Australia 11376
425 Christian Voigt Germany 11384
426 Edward Akika Nigeria 11403
427 Ito Giani Italy 11444
428 James Odongo Uganda 11446
429 Karu Selvaratnam Malaysia 11472
430 Laszlo Mihalyfi Hungary 11485
431 Manfred Knickenberg Germany 11497
432 Morgan Groth USA 11520
433 Paul Roekaerts Belgium 11536
434 So Kam Tong Hong Kong 11558
435 Virgil Okiring Uganda 11574
436 Walter Babb Zambia 11578
437 Guido Vogele Switzerland 11646
438 Ireneusz Kluczek Poland 11652
439 Maung Rajan Myanmar 11676
440 Naceur Ben Messaoud Tunisia 11680
441 George Collie Bahamas 11763
442 Alberto Torres Dominican Republic 11774
443 David Njitock Cameroon 11781
444 Alioune Sow Senegal 11798
445 Arsenio Jazmin Philippines 11805
446 Balkrishan Akotkar India 11809
447 Graham Boase Australia 11854
448 Hortensio Fucil Venezuela 11862
449 Jean-Louis Descloux Switzerland 11877
450 Tom O'Riordan Ireland 11963
451 Imants Kuklics Latvia 12220
452 Mansour ul-Haq Awan Pakistan 12247
453 Michael Ryan Australia 12256
454 Hugo Walser Liechtenstein 12503
455 Patrick Field Hong Kong 12521
456 Somsakdi Tongsuke Thailand 12551
457 Aske Dam Denmark 12577
458 Don Bertoia Canada 12595
459 Dulamyn Amarsanaa Mongolia 12596
460 Istvan Gyulai Hungary 12628
461 Jose Gregorio Neira Colombia 12644
462 Jurgen Kalfelder Germany 12649
463 Tira Klai-Angtong Thailand 12709
464 Toichi Yamaguchi Japan 12710
465 Dani Kovac Croatia 12760
466 Horst Gieseler Germany 12774
467 Manfred Naumann Germany 12857
468 Anar Khan Pakistan 12986
469 Armando Aldegalega Portugal 12990
470 Federico Gutierrez Colombia 12999
471 Lee Ar-Tu Chinese Taipei 13011
472 Wesley Johnson Liberia 13012
473 Bassirou Doumbia Senegal 13025
474 Eric Amevor Ghana 13041
475 Huba Rozsnyai Hungary 13067
476 Jean Randrianjatavo Madagascar 13076
477 Leon Yombe Congo 13093
478 Oskar Leupi Switzerland 13120
479 Sermsak Keocanta Thailand 13137
480 Wilton Jackson Trinidad & Tobago 13161
481 Zbigniew Syka Poland 13163
482 Yoyaga Dit Coulibaly Cote d'Ivoire 13180
483 Didier Mejia Mexico 13204
484 Ivan Keats New Zealand 13215
485 Mohamed Hassan Chabbanga Tanzania 13238
486 Nipon Pensuvabharp Thailand 13243
487 Harbans Lal India 13319
488 Chrisantus Nyakwayo Kenya 13477
489 Constantino Kapambwe Zambia 13553
490 Nguyen Van Ly Vietnam 13628
491 Amos Gilad Israel 13636
492 Omari Abdallah Tanzania 13663
493 Daniel Thomas Tanzania 13704
494 Hossein Ghafourizadeh Iran 13716
495 Muhammad Youssef Pakistan 13729
496 Jeong Gi-Seon South Korea 13753
497 Gerardo di Tolla Peru 13762
498 Vahab Shahkhordeh Iran 13846
499 Ju Hyeong-Gyeol South Korea 13895
500 Abdoulaye N'Diaye Senegal 13950
501 Alf Meakin Great Britain 13955
502 Masaru Kamata Japan 13991
503 Mathias Kanda Zimbabwe 13992
504 Max Barandun Switzerland 13993
505 Victor Peralta Mexico 14086
506 Trev Haynes Zambia 14133
507 Abraham Fornes Puerto Rico 14146
508 Robson Mrombe Zimbabwe 14242
509 Borys Savchuk Ukraine 14258
510 Laurent Chifita Zambia 14275
511 Chanom Sirirangsri Thailand 14308
512 Andrew Soi Kenya 14339
513 Bhupendra Silwal Nepal 14342
514 Ganga Bahadur Thapa Nepal 14345
515 Hedhili Ben Boubaker Tunisia 14346
516 Viktor Baykov Russia 14359
517 Arnulfo Valles Philippines 14409
518 Ho Thanh Chinh Vietnam 14429
519 Levi Psavkin Israel 14439
520 Sara Camara Mali 14456
521 Akbar Babakhanlou Iran 14631
522 Rogelio Rivas Spain 14639

 


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