| USAINBOLT | Jamaican sprinter who won Olympic gold in the 100 metres and 200 metres in 2008, 2012 and 2016 (5,4) |
| HOFSTRA | New York university that hosted presidential debates in 2008, 2012 and 2016 |
| DONQUARRIE | Jamaican sprinter who won gold in the 200m at the 1976 Olympics and silver in the 100m (3,7) |
| HURDLING | Class of events where a runner races over a series of obstacles, which are set a fixed distance apart. The standard race distances for men are 110, 200, and 400 metres and 100 metres and 200 metres fo |
| BOLT | This sprinter won gold medals in the 100-metre and 200-metre races in an unprecedented three straight Olympic Games |
| RAELENEBOYLE | Which Australian athlete won silver medals in the 100 metre and 200 metre sprints at the 1972 Olympi |
| DECATHLON | Athletic event consisting of 10 track-and-field disciplines including 100 metres and shot put (9) |
| JACOBS | Lamont Marcell, Italian sprinter who won gold in the 100 metres at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo (6) |
| FREESTYLE | At the 1996 Atlanta Games, swimmers Alexander Popov and Gary Hall, Jr. faced off in these 50-metre and 100-metre swimming events (8) |
| BORZOV | Valery, Soviet sprinter who won gold in the 100 and 200 metres at the 1972 Munich Olympics (6) |
| RUNATABBY | Enter kitty in the 100-metre dash? |
| PEATY | Adam, British swimmer who won gold in the 100 metres breaststroke at the Rio and Tokyo Olympics (5) |
| ARGENTINE | Fellow at home in 100 square metres in South American country |
| CHRISTIE | Linford -; sprinter who won the gold medal in the 100 metres at the 1992 Barcelona Summer Olympics (8) |
| DONOVANBAILEY | Canadian Olympic History! Sprinting great who won gold in the 100 metres at Atlanta 1996: 2 wds. |
| MICROCOSM | One reptile that's very large, being between 2 metres, in a small world (9) |
| HUGHES | Zharnel, sprinter born in 1995 who is the British record holder in the 100 and 200 metres (6) |
| DICKINSON | Emily ---, 19th Century American poet known for her unconventional use of metre and capitalisation (9) |
| DEFERMENT | Adapted free metres in recess for shelving |
| EMILZATOPEK | Who created an Olympic first by winning the gold medal in 5,000 and 10,000 metres and also the marathon at the 1952 Helsinki Games? (4,7) |
