| STEVEBACKLEY | British javelin thrower who won silver medals in four global championships, three behind Jan Zelezny |
| TATYANALEBEDEVA | Russian athlete who won silver medals in both the long jump and triple jump at the 2008 Olympics |
| JAVELIN | Olympic event associated with Jan Zelezny (7) |
| LOCHTE | Ryan with swimming gold medals in four straight Olympics |
| FIFA | Org. running global championships since 1930 |
| RAELENEBOYLE | Which Australian athlete won silver medals in the 100 metre and 200 metre sprints at the 1972 Olympi |
| FATIMA | --- Whitbread, British javelin thrower who won medals at the 1984 and 1988 Olympics (6) |
| SANDERSON | Tessa ___, British javelin thrower who won an Olympic gold medal in 1984 |
| THIRDWORLD | Globe three, behind us technically? (5,5) |
| STUMP | One of three behind a batter (5) |
| JANZELEZNY | Czech javelin thrower who won the gold at the 1992, 1996 and 2000 Olympics |
| TOKYO | At ____ in 1991, four answers in this puzzle were the UK’s first 4x400m winners in a global championship since 1936 |
| MAMEDE | Portuguese runner Fernando ____ held the 10,000m world record for five years from 1984, but won no European or global championship medals |
| LAPSES | Oversights left 3 behind (6) |
| PROCRASTINATION | 10 of 3 behind credit offered by wine society? (15) |
| POLEVAULTER | ____ Armand Duplantis has five global championship golds (4-7) |
| TESSASANDERSON | British javelin thrower who competed in the Olympics six times, 1976-1996 |
| ADAMS | Neil _, British judoka who won silver medals at the 1980 and 1984 Olympic Games (5) |
| NEIL | And 32 British judoka who won silver medals at the 1980 and 1984 Olympic Games (4,5) |
| TESSA | --- Sanderson, British javelin thrower who competed at six Olympics (5) |
