Olympics quiz: who are the missing medallists?

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Tokyo 2020 has been postponed, so let’s look back at previous Games

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Seoul 1988, men’s 100m (after Ben Johnson’s disqualification) … gold: Carl Lewis, silver: Linford Christie, bronze: ???

Calvin Smith

Leroy Burrell

Dennis Mitchell

Robson da Silva

Athens 2004, women’s 800m … gold: Kelly Holmes, silver: Hasna Benhassi, bronze: ???

Maria Mutola

Jearl Miles Clark

Janeth Jepkosgei

Jolanda Ceplak

Moscow 1980, men’s 200m … gold: ???, silver: Allan Wells, bronze: Don Quarrie

Carl Lewis

Bernhard Hoff

Pietro Mennea

Silvio Leonard

Rio 2016, women’s 100m hurdles … gold: Brianna Rollins, silver: Nia Ali, bronze: ???

Kristi Castlin

Sally Pearson

Tiffany Porter

Kendra Harrison

Mexico City 1968, men’s long jump … gold: Bob Beamon, silver: ???, bronze: Ralph Boston

Lynn Davies

Igor Ter-Ovanesyan

Randy Williams

Klaus Beer

Sydney 2000, women’s 400m … gold: Cathy Freeman, silver: ???, bronze: Katharine Merry

Monique Hennagan

Lorraine Fenton

Marie-José Pérec

Tonique Williams-Darling

Beijing 2008, men’s 100m … gold: Usain Bolt, silver: Richard Thompson, bronze: ???

Asafa Powell

Justin Gatlin

Walter Dix

Kim Collins

Barcelona 1992, women’s 400m hurdles … gold: Sally Gunnell, silver: Sandra Farmer-Patrick, bronze: ???

Deon Hemmings

Kim Batten

Janeene Vickers

Tatyana Ledovskaya

Montreal 1976, men’s decathlon … gold: Bruce Jenner, silver: Guido Kratschmer, bronze: ???

Daley Thompson

Mykola Avilov

Yuriy Kutsenko

Raimo Pihl

London 2012, women’s heptathlon (after Tatyana Chernova’s disqualification) … gold: Jessica Ennis, silver: ???, bronze: Austra Skujyte

Carolina Klüft

Jennifer Oeser

Lilli Schwarzkopf

Brianne Theisen

Munich 1972, men’s 4x400m relay … gold: ???, silver: Great Britain, bronze: France

East Germany

West Germany

USA

Kenya

Los Angeles 1984, women’s javelin … gold: Tessa Sanderson, silver: ???, bronze: Fatima Whitbread

Tiina Lillak

Trine Solberg

Petra Felke

Beate Koch

Atlanta 1996, men’s 400m … gold: Michael Johnson, silver: Roger Black, bronze: ???

Davis Kamoga

Alvin Harrison

Gregory Haughton

Butch Reynolds

Atlanta 1996, women’s long jump … gold: Chioma Ajunwa, silver: ???, bronze: Jackie Joyner-Kersee

Inessa Kravits

Lyudmila Galkina

Fiona May

Heike Drechsler

Seoul 1988, men’s 110m hurdles … gold: Roger Kingdom, silver: ???, bronze: Tonie Campbell

Greg Foster

Jon Ridgeon

Jack Pierce

Colin Jackson

10 and above.

Two-thirds of your way to the gold

11 and above.

Well placed for four years down the line

12 and above.

Agonisingly just outside the medal positions

13 and above.

Battering your way through to the bronze

14 and above.

A memorable sprint to a deserved silver

15 and above.

Gold, a homecoming parade and a postbox in your honour

9 and above.

Out of the semis … but nowhere in the final

8 and above.

Still in contention … until the final lap

7 and above.

Getting dropped just before the bell

6 and above.

Well it’s more than a third

5 and above.

Like a sprinter entering the 5,000m

4 and above.

Clipped quite a few hurdles, there

3 and above.

It’s all about the taking part, after all

2 and above.

Didn’t so much drop the baton as throw it out of the stadium

0 and above.

The quiz equivalent of 15 false starts

1 and above.

Head-first into the steeplechase water jump

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Written by Stuart Goodwin
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