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