Marion Jones

Sprints

Marion Jones won Olympic gold medals in 2000 in the 100-meter, 200-meter and 1,600-meter relay. She also won bronze medals in the long jump and 400-meters. She gave birth to her son, Tim Montgomery Jr., in the summer of 2003.

Marion had a rough time at the Mount SAC Relays in Walnut, Calif., on Sunday where she finished last in the 400. Jones is looking to get back on track after a disappointing time in Athens as well.

Maurice Greene

Sprints

Maurice Greene, a native of Kansas City, Kan., won the Olympic 100-meter dash and the 400-meter relay in 2000. He took home bronze last summer in Athens in one of the closest finishes of all time. Greene ran 9.87 seconds, while Justin Gatlin won the race in 9.85 seconds.

He set the world record with a dash 9.79 seconds in 1999, which was broken by .1 seconds by Tim Montgomery in 2002.

Nick Hysong

Pole vault

Nick Hysong won Olympic gold in the pole vault in 2000, becoming the first United States athlete to win the event since Bob Seagren in 1968. He was the bronze medalist in the 2001 World Outdoor Championships and was the 1995 U.S. indoor champion. He graduated from Arizona State University, where he won the NCAA Outdoor Championship in 1994. He also won the PAC-10 Championship in 1993 and 1994.

Stacy Dragila

Pole vault

Stacy Dragila won the first-ever women’s Olympic pole vault competition in 2000. She competed in Athens in 2004 after winning the U.S. Olympic Trials, but didn’t advance to the finals. She holds the American record in pole vault at 15 feet, 10 inches, which she set in 2004.

She has won eight U.S. outdoor championships, dating back to 1996.

Savatheda Fynes

Sprints

Savatheda Fynes, who hails from the Bahamas, won Olympic gold as part of a 400-meter relay team in 2000. She was a silver medalist in 1996 in the same event. She went to college at Louisiana and Michigan State, where she graduated in 1996. She won three NCAA titles. As a 16-year-old in 1991 she placed third in the 100-meters in.

Allen Johnson

Hurdles

Allen Johnson has been one of the best hurdlers in the world for several years. He clipped a hurdle and fell in the preliminary round at the 2004 Athens Games. He won the 110-meter hurdles in the 1996 Olympics.

Johnson, 34, is a four-time World Outdoor Championships winner, a six-time U.S. outdoor champion and a four-time U.S. indoor winner.

Matt Hemingway

High jump

Matt Hemingway won silver in the high jump in his first Olympics in 2004. Before the Olympics, his most notable achievements were winning the 2000 U.S. Indoor Championships and placing second in three straight U.S. Outdoor Championships, from 2002 to 2004. Hemingway, who stands at 6-foot-7, graduated from Arkansas in 1996.

Inger Miller

Sprints

Inger Miller won gold at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics as part of the U.S. 4x100-meter relay team. She withdrew from the 2000 Olympics, in which she was a medal favorite, before competing in a single event because of a hamstring injury. She had qualified in the 100-meter and 200-meter dashes and the 400-meter relay.

Miller, 32, won a World Outdoor Championships in the 200-meters in 1999.

Austra Skujyte

Heptathlon

Austra Skujyte, a 25-year-old Lithuanian, broke the world record for the women’s decathlon on Friday at the Audrey Walton Combined Events meet in Columbia, Mo. The women’s decathlon was added as an event recently by the International Association of Athletic Federations. Skyuyte also won silver in the heptathlon at the Athens Olympics.

John Steffenson

Sprints

An up-and-comer, John Steffenson, 22, was part of Australia’s unlikely silver medal-winning 1,600-meter relay in the 2004 Olympics. It was the first time Australia had medaled in the event since the 1956 Olympics. He competed primarily as a long jumper when he started, and now also runs the 400-meter and 200-meter dashes.

Christian Cantwell

Throws

Christian Cantwell, a 2003 Missouri graduate, failed to qualify for his first Olympics in 2004 despite being the top-ranked shot-putter in the world by Track and Field News. He barely missed making the team, placing fourth at the U.S. Olympic Trials.

He won the 2004 World Indoor Championships. Prior to the Olympic Trials, he had won the shot put in 14 consecutive meets. Cantwell also competes in discuss and hammer throw.

Amy Acuff

High jump

Amy Acuff competed in the high jump in the Olympics in 1996, 2000 and 2004. After failing to get past the qualifying round in her first two Olympics, she finished fourth in Athens. She won her fourth U.S. outdoor title in 2003.

Acuff achieved fame outside of track and field last summer when she appeared on the cover of Playboy. In the fall she married fellow pole vaulter Tye Harvey, will also compete at the Kansas Relays.