| BOLT | The first sprinter to win gold medals in the 100-metre and 200-metre races in three straight Olympics |
| SNELL | New Zealand runner who was the last man to win gold medals in the 800m and 1500m at the same Olympics (5) |
| OFFTOAFINESTART | Like the first sprinter to leave the blocks |
| RAELENEBOYLE | Which Australian athlete won silver medals in the 100 metre and 200 metre sprints at the 1972 Olympi |
| GRIESE | Starting Miami quarterback in three straight '70s Super Bowls |
| LAURAKENNY | Cyclist who became the first British woman to win gold medals at three consecutive Olympics (5,5) |
| OVETT | Who, for Great Britain, won gold in the 800-metre race at the 1980 Moscow Olympics? (5) |
| DASH | 100-metre race, e.g. |
| RELAY | 4 x 100-metre race, e.g. |
| USAINBOLT | Jamaican sprinter who won Olympic gold in the 100 metres and 200 metres in 2008, 2012 and 2016 (5,4) |
| 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 |
| BORZOV | After his two chief American challengers missed their qualifying races, this Soviet sprinter won the gold medal in the 100-metre dash in 1972, Valery ___ (6) |
| VINESH | Who became the first Indian woman wrestler to win gold in both the Commonwealth & the Asian Games but was disqualified from participating in the final of the Paris Olympics, due to overweight? (6) |
| CHRISTIE | Linford -; sprinter who won the gold medal in the 100 metres at the 1992 Barcelona Summer Olympics (8) |
| FRASER | Winner of three successive Olympic gold medals in the 100 metres freestyle (6) |
| HUGHES | Zharnel, sprinter born in 1995 who is the British record holder in the 100 and 200 metres (6) |
| HINES | US athlete and the first man to officially break the 10-second barrier in the 100 metres, Jim _ (5) |
| 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) |
| JACOBS | Lamont Marcell, Italian sprinter who won gold in the 100 metres at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo (6) |
| SEVILLE | Oblique ___, Jamaican sprinter who won gold in the 100 metres at the World Athletics Championships in 2025 (7) |
