Track & Field News The Bible Of The Sport Since 1948 from the Founded by Bert & Cordner Nelson E. GARRY HILL — Editor ED FOX — Publisher editor EDITORIAL STAFF Sieg Lindstrom ..........Managing Editor Jeff Hollobaugh .......... Associate Editor BUSINESS STAFF Janet Vitu ..............Executive Publisher THEY SAY THAT TIME FLIES when you’re having fun… but 70 years, really?! OK, so I Wallace Dere .................Office Manager haven’t been on the job for 70 years (only a mere 47), but as noted on p. 8, this is indeed year Teresa Tam ......................... Art Director No. 70 of the intergalactically famous T&FN World Rankings. WORLD RANKINGS COMPILERS I’m proud to have been part of them since ’77. Jonathan Berenbom, Richard Hymans, Dave Let’s take a quick meander down memory lane and look at the No. 1 performers as the decades Johnson, Nejat Kök, R.L. Quercetani (Emeritus) of Rankings have slipped by. Te first year that we assigned some rational ordering of the year’s performers was in ’47. So, without further adieu, a thumbnail look at the 10-year anniversaries, SENIOR EDITORS with the cover pages of the issue in which they appeared (not all years had all events ranked): Bob Bowman (Walking), Roy Conrad (Special Projects), Jon Hendershott (Emeritus), Bob Hersh 1956’s No. 1s: Bobby Morrow, Morrow, Lou Jones, Tom Courtney, Ronnie Delany, Chris (Eastern), Mike Kennedy (HS Girls), Glen Mc- Brasher, Vladimir Kuts, Kuts, Jack Davis, Glenn Davis, Alain Mimoun (no walk ranks), Charles Micken (Lists), Walt Murphy (Relays), Jim Rorick Dumas, Bob Richards, Greg Bell, Adhemar da Silva, Parry O’Brien, Al Oerter, Hal Connolly, (Stats), Jack Shepard (HS Boys) Egil Danielson, Milt Campbell. We weren’t yet ranking women. Nor were we choosing any Athletes Of Te Year. U.S. CORRESPONDENTS John Auka, Bob Bettwy, Bret Bloomquist, Bill 1966’s No. 1s: Charlie Greene, Tommie Smith, Lee Evans, Jim Ryun, Ryun, Viktor Kudinsky, Buchalter, Mike Byrnes, Tom Casacky, Pete Cava, Kip Keino, Naftali Temu, Willie Davenport, Roberto Frinolli, Mike Ryan, Chichchin Ni, John Gene Cherry, Keith Conning, Cheryl Davis, Elliott Pennel, Ralph Boston, Hans-Jürgen Rückborn, Randy Matson, Al Oerter, Romuald Klim, Janis Denman, Peter Diamond, Charles Fleishman, Lusis, Bill Toomey. Sorry, we still weren’t ranking women. Athlete Of Te Year: Ryun. John Gillespie, Becca Gillespy-Peter, Rich Gon- zalez, Ed Gordon, Ed Grant, George Grenier, 1976’s No. 1s: Don Quarrie, Quarrie, Alberto Juantorena, Juantorena, John Walker, Anders Ben Hall, Sean Hartnett, Jeff Hollobaugh, Mike Gärderud, Lasse Viren, Viren, Guy Drut, Edwin Moses, Waldemar Cierpinski, Daniel Bautista, Hubbard, Venyamin Soldatenko, Dwight Stones, Dave Roberts, Arnie Robinson, Viktor Saneyev, Aleksandr Dave Hunter, Tom Jennings, Roger Jennings, Tom Barishnikov, Mac Wilkins, Yuriy Syedikh, Miklos Németh, Bruce Jenner. Again, no women’s Jordan, Kim Koffman, Don Kopriva, Ruth Laney, Ranks. Athletes Of Te Year: Juantorena & Tatyana Kazankina. Dan Lilot, Charlie Mahler, Paul Merca, Larry 1986’s No. 1s: Men—Ben Johnson, Floyd Heard, Gabriel Tiacoh, Seb Coe, Steve Cram, Wil- Newman, Lee Nichols, Jack Pfeifer, Shawn Price, liam van Dijck, Saïd Aouita, Aouita, Greg Foster, Andre Phillips, Juma Ikangaa, Jozef Pribilinec, Harv Rentschler, Kirk Reynolds, Brian Russell, Hartwig Gauder, Igor Paklin, Sergey Bubka, Robert Emmiyan, Mike Conley, Ulf Timmermann, Rich Sands, Kevin Saylors, Charles Shaffer, Jim Romas Ubartas, Syedikh, Tom Petranoff, Daley Tompson. Spier, Jesse Squire, Women—Evelyn Ashford, Heike Drechsler, Marita Koch, Sigrun Wodars, Tatyana Samolenko, Don Steffens, Larry Story, Paul Swangard, Carol Ingrid Kristiansen, Kristiansen, Yordanka Donkova, Marina Stepanova, Grete Waitz, Kerry Saxby-Junna, R. Swenson, Gary Trigueiro, Jules Trigueiro, Stefka Kostadinova, Heike Drechsler, Natalya Lisovskaya, Tsvetanka Khristova, Fatima Whitbread, Jackie Steve Vaitones, Howard Willman, David Woods Joyner-Kersee. Athletes Of Te Year: Syedikh & JJK. INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENTS 1996’s No. 1s: Men—Donovan Bailey, Michael Johnson, Johnson, Wilson Kipketer, Noured- Steven Downes, Matti Hannus, Ian Hodge, Jonas dine Morceli, Joseph Keter, Daniel Komen, Haile Gebrselassie, Allen Johnson, Derrick Adkins, Hedman, Atsushi Hoshino, Mike Hurst, Mirko Bong-ju Lee , Jefferson Pérez, Robert Korzeniowski, Javier Sotomayor, Bubka, Carl Lewis, Jonathan Jalava, Paul Jenes, Alfons Juck, Edwards, Randy Barnes, Lars Riedel, Lance Deal, Jan Železný, Dan O’Brien. Women—Merlene Ottey, Marie-José Pérec, Pérec, Svetlana Masterkova, Masterkova, Junxia A. Lennart Julin, Duncan Mackay, Peter Mat- Wang, Fernanda Ribeiro, Ludmila Engquist, Fatuma Roba, Yelena Nikolayeva, Stefka Kostadinova, Emma thews, Phil Minshull, K. Ken Nakamura, Bob George, Inessa Kravets, Tatyana Lisovskaya, Astrid Kumbernuss, Ilke Wyludda, Mihaela Melinte, Heli Ran- Ramsak, Sergey Tikhonov, Chris Turner, Mel tanen, Ghada Shouaa. Athletes Of Te Year: Johnson & Masterkova. Watman 2006’s No. 1s: Men—Asafa Powell, Tyson Gay, Jeremy Wariner, Mbulaeni Mulaudzi, Alex PHOTOGRAPHERS Kipchirchir, Saïf Shaheen, Kenenisa Bekele, Micah Kogo, Xiang Liu, Periklís Iakovákis, Gebrse- Claus Andersen, Errol Anderson, Greg Arm- lassie, Francisco Fernández, Denis Nizhegorodov, Andrey Silnov, Steve Hooker, Irving Saladino, strong, John Burke, Gladys Chai, Rich Clarkson, Christian Olsson, Reese Hoffa, Virgilijus Alekna, Koji Murofushi, Andreas Torkildsen, Bryan Clay. Giancarlo Colombo, Tony Duffy, Don Gosney, Women—Sherone Simpson, Allyson Felix, Sanya Richards-Ross, Zulia Calatyud, Maryam Jeff Jacobsen, Anthony R. Jones, Jamal, Alesya Turova, Meseret Defar, Tirunesh Dibaba, Inga Abitova, Michelle Perry, Lashinda Demus, Deena Kirby Lee, Bill Leung, Andrew McClanahan, Kastor, Rita Turova, Kajsa Bergqvist, Yelena Isinbaeva, Lyudmila Kolchanova, Tatyana Lebedeva, Valerie Adams, Jiro Mochizuki, Kevin Morris, David Peterson, Franka Dietzsch, Tatyana Lysenko, Steffi Nerius, Carolina Klüft. Athletes Of Te Year: Powell & Richard-Ross. Victor Sailer, Mike Scott, Mark Shearman, Kim You can find the 2016 honors, of course, in the following pages… Now, all in favor of hanging Spir, Cheryl Treworgy around to see who tops the charts when the 2026 awards come out, the line forms behind me! 4 — February 2017 Track & Field News p04 (editor).indd 4 12/23/16 10:07 .