Wikipedia:WikiProject Athletics/Tasks/Missing world leaders

This is a list of missing athletes who had the world-leading performance in a season. This focuses on performances after 1960 in World Championship- or Olympic-level outdoor events. A total of 16 athletes were missing at creation on 17 March 2020.

Missing athletes
• ;400 m

• Curtis Mills

• ;800 m

• Dicky Broberg

• ;10,000 m

• Kathy Gibbons

• Peg Neppel

• Mary Shea

• Raisa Sadreydinova

• ;Half marathon

• Kathy Gibbons

• Nadia Garcia

• Vladimir Merkushin

• Toshihiro Matsumoto

• ;Marathon

• ?

• ;20 km walk

• ?

• ;50 km walk

• ?

• ;3000 m s'chase

• Vladimiras Dudinas

• Melissa Teemant

• ;Hammer throw

• Yelena Pichugina

• Larisa Baranova

• ;Triple jump

• Aleksandr Zolotaryev

• Ron Livers

• ;Decathlon

• Rüdiger Demmig