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Criteria: Influence, achievements, sportsmanship

Greatest high jumpers

Men
1. Javier Sotomayor (Cuba)
2. Mutaz Essa Barshim (Qatar)
3. Dick Fosbury (United States)
4. Valeriy Brumel (Soviet Union)
5. Patrik Sjöberg (Sweden)

Women
1. Iolanda Balaș (Romania)
2. Stefka Kostadinova (Bulgaria)
3. Mariya Lasitskene (Russia)
4. Sara Simeoni (Italy)
5. Yaroslava Mahuchikh (Ukraine)

Greatest pole vaulters

Men
1. Armand Duplantis (Sweden)
2. Sergey Bubka (Soviet Union; Ukraine)
3. Cornelius Warmerdam (United States)
4. Renaud Lavillenie (France)
5. Bob Seagren (United States)

Women
1. Yelena Isinbayeva (Russia)
2. Jennifer Suhr (United States)
3. Stacy Dragila (United States)
4. Katerina Stefanidi (Greece)
5. Emma George (Australia)

Greatest long jumpers

Men
1. Carl Lewis (United States)
2. Iván Pedroso (Cuba)
3. Bob Beamon (United States)
4. Jesse Owens (United States)
5. Mike Powell (United States)

Women
1. Heike Drechsler ((East) Germany)
2. Jackie Joyner-Kersee (United States)
3. Brittney Reese (United States)
4. Malaika Mihambo (Germany)
5. Anișoara Cușmir-Stanciu (Romania)

Greatest triple jumpers

Men
1. Jonathan Edwards (Great Britain)
2. Viktor Saneyev (Soviet Union)
3. Christian Taylor (United States)
4. Adhemar da Silva (Brazil)
5. Mike Conley (United States)

Women
1. Yulimar Rojas (Venezuela)
2. Françoise Mbango Etone (Cameroon; France)
3. Caterine Ibargüen (Colombia)
4. Olga Rypakova (Kazakhstan)
5. Inessa Kravets (Ukraine)

Greatest shot put throwers

Men
1. Ryan Crouser (United States)
2. Parry O'Brien (United States)
3. Joe Kovacs (United States)
4. Aleksandr Baryshnikov (Soviet Union)
5. Tomasz Majewski (Poland)

Women
1. Valerie Adams (New Zealand)
2. Tamara Press (Soviet Union)
3. Nadezhda Chizhova (Soviet Union)
4. Gong Lijiao (China)
5. Galina Zybina (Soviet Union)

Greatest discus throwers

Men
1. Al Oerter (United States)
2. Virgilijus Alekna (Lithuania)
3. Lars Riedel (Germany)
4. Gerd Kanter (Estonia)
5. Daniel Ståhl (Sweden)

Women
1. Sandra Elkasević (Croatia)
2. Evelin Jahl (East Germany)
3. Valarie Allman (United States)
4. Ilke Wyludda ((East) Germany)
5. Faina Melnik (Soviet Union)

Greatest hammer throwers

Men
1. Yuriy Sedykh (Soviet Union)
2. Sergey Litvinov (Soviet Union)
3. Gyula Zsivótzky (Hungary)
4. Romuald Klim (Soviet Union)
5. Koji Murofushi (Japan)

Women
1. Anita Włodarczyk (Poland)
2. Yipsi Moreno (Cuba)
3. Camryn Rogers (Canada)
4. Olga Kuzenkova (Russia)
5. Mihaela Melinte (Romania)

Greatest javelin throwers

Men
1. Jan Železný (Czechoslovakia; Czech Republic)
2. Andreas Thorkildsen (Norway)
3. Jānis Lūsis (Soviet Union)
4. Steve Backley (Great Britain)
5. Miklós Németh (Hungary)

Women
1. Barbora Špotáková (Czech Republic)
2. Ruth Fuchs (East Germany)
3. Petra Felke (East Germany)
4. Osleidys Menéndez (Cuba)
5. Trine Hattestad (Norway)

Greatest decathlon athletes

Men
1. Daley Thompson (Great Britain)
2. Rafer Johnson (United States)
3. Dan O'Brien (United States)
4. Ashton Eaton (United States)
5. Bob Mathias (United States)

Greatest heptathlon athletes

Women
1. Nafissatou Thiam (Belgium)
2. Jackie Joyner-Kersee (United States)
3. Jessica Ennis-Hill (Great Britain)
4. Carolina Klüft (Sweden)
5. Ghada Shouaa (Syria)

Greatest overall track & fields athletes

Men
1. Carl Lewis (United States)
2. Usain Bolt (Jamaica)
3. Paavo Nurmi (Finland)
4. Jesse Owens (United States)
5. Armand Duplantis (Sweden)
6. Sergey Bubka (Soviet Union; Ukraine)
7. Ville Ritola (Finland)
8. Ray Ewry (United States)
9. Michael Johnson (United States)
10. Mo Farah (Great Britain)

Women
1. Jackie Joyner-Kersee (United States)
2. Elaine Thompson-Herah (Jamaica)
3. Irena Szewińska (Poland)
4. Fanny Blankers-Koen (Netherlands)
5. Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce (Jamaica)
6. Wilma Rudolph (United States)
7. Betty Cuthbert (Australia)
8. Yelena Isinbayeva (Russia)
9. Babe Didrikson-Zaharias (United States)
10. Tirunesh Dibaba (Ethiopia)