Wikipedia:WikiProject Athletics/Tasks/Olympic finalists

This is a list of missing biography articles for athletes who reached the top eight of an event at the Athletics at the Summer Olympics from 1948 to present. At creation, on 2 May 2016, there were X missing athletes. Athletes in bold finished in the top five.

Track
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100 metres

 * Donovan Reid (1984)
 * Guy Abrahams (1976)
 * Andrea Lynch
 * Heinz Schumann (1964)
 * Jenny Smart (1960)
 * Winsome Cripps (1952)

200 metres

 * Rui da Silva (athlete) (1976)
 * Bogdan Grzejszczak
 * Hans-Joachim Zenk (1972)
 * Rosie Allwood
 * Jochen Eigenherr (1968)
 * Jutta Stöck
 * Winsome Cripps (1952)
 * Margaret Walker (athlete) (1948)

400 metres

 * Maree Holland (1988)
 * Jarvis Scott (1968)
 * Helga Henning
 * Amos Omolo
 * Antonia Munkacsi (1964)
 * Gertrud Schmidt

800 metres

 * Slobodanka Čolović (1988)
 * Edwin Koech (1984)
 * Caroline O'Shea (athlete)
 * Dave Warren (athlete) (1980)
 * Martina Kämpfert (1980)
 * Jolanta Januchta
 * Svetlana Styrkina (1976)
 * Doris Gluth
 * Mariana Suman
 * Pat Lowe-Cropper (1968)
 * Dieter Bogatzki (1964)
 * Paul Schmidt (athlete) (1960)
 * Christian Wägli
 * Vera Kummerfeldt
 * Joy Jordan
 * Gizella Sasvári-Csóka
 * Beata Żbikowska
 * Mike Farrell (athlete) (1956)
 * Émile Leva
 * Bill Butchart
 * Albert Webster (1952)
 * Bob Chambers (athlete) (1948)

1500 metres

 * Andrea Hahmann (1988)
 * Roswitha Gerdes (1984)
 * Peter Wirz
 * Andrés Vera
 * Lyubov Smolka (1980)
 * Tamara Pangelova (1972)
 * Jenny Orr
 * Herman Mignon
 * Vladimir Panteley
 * Zoltan Vamoş (1960)
 * Ian Boyd (athlete) (1956)
 * Rolf Lamers (1952)
 * Václav Čevona (1948)
 * Don Gehrmann
 * Erik Jørgensen (athlete)

5000 metres

 * Jirka Arndt (2000)
 * Dietmar Millonig (1980)
 * Aleksandr Fyodotkin
 * Aniceto Simões (1976)
 * Nikola Sviridov (1972)
 * Wohib Masresha (1968)
 * Nikolay Sviridov
 * Fikru Deguefu
 * Nikolay Dutov (1964)
 * Friedrich Janke (1960)
 * Horst Flosbach
 * Miklós Szabó (long-distance runner) (1956)
 * Thyge Togersen

10,000 metres

 * Judi St. Hilaire (1992)
 * Sue French-Lee (1988)
 * Yutaka Kanai (1984)
 * Marc Smet (1976)
 * Nikolay Sviridov (1968)
 * Wohib Masresha
 * Aleksey Desyatchikov (1960)
 * John Merriman (athlete)
 * Kenneth Norris (athlete) (1956)
 * Ivan Chernyavskiy
 * Abdullah Ben Saïd (1948)

Sprint hurdles

 * Natalya Shekhodanova (1996)
 * Hugh Teape (1992)
 * Natalya Kolovanova
 * Vladimir Shishkin (1988)
 * Florence Colle
 * Arthur Blake (hurdler)
 * Marie-Noëlle Savigny (1984)
 * Ulrike Denk
 * Pam Page
 * Irina Litovchenko (1980)
 * Vyacheslav Kulebyakin (1976)
 * Petr Čech (hurdler) (1972)
 * Teresa Nowak
 * Danuta Straszyńska
 * Werner Trzmiel (1968)
 * Marcel Duriez
 * Pierre Schoebel
 * Danuta Straszyńska
 * Elżbieta Żebrowska
 * Marcel Duriez (1964)
 * Rimma Koshelyeva (1960)
 * Anneliese Seonbuchner (1952)
 * Maria Oberbreyer-Trösch (1948)
 * Libuše Lomská

400 m hurdles

 * Everson Teixeira (1996)
 * Vera Ordina (1992)
 * Myrtle Bothma
 * Tatyana Kourochkina (1988)
 * Tuija Helander (1984)
 * Michel Zimmermann
 * Nikolay Vasilyev (hurdler) (1980)
 * Horia Toboc
 * Franz Meier
 * Dámaso Alfonso (1976)
 * Rainer Schubert (1968 & 1972)
 * Jay Luck (1964)
 * Vasily Anisimov
 * Wilfried Geeroms
 * Jussi Rintamäki (1960)
 * Harry Whittle (1952)

Steeplechase

 * Pascal Debacker (1984)
 * Giuseppe Gerbi (1980)
 * Anatoliy Dimov
 * Dan Glans (1976)
 * Antonio Campos (athlete)
 * Romualdas Bitė (1972)
 * Aleksandr Morozov (athlete) (1968)
 * Manuel Oliveira (1964)
 * Guy Texereau
 * Adolf Alexeiunas
 * Lars-Erik Gustafsson
 * Ludwig Müller (runner) (1960)
 * Aleksandr Konov
 * Heinz Laufer (1956)
 * Semyon Rzshishchin
 * Neil Robbins
 * Günter Hesselmann (1952)
 * Mikhail Saltykov (athlete)
 * Helmut Gude

Marathon
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 * Mun Gyong-ae (1992)
 * Gabrou Merawi (1968)
 * Timothy Johnston
 * József Sütö (1964)
 * Thyge Thøgersen (1960)
 * Abebe Wakgira
 * Yoshiaki Kawashima (1956)
 * Erkki Puolakka (1952)
 * Syd Luyt (1948)
 * Gustav Östling