Katja Tengel (born 27 June 1981 as Katja Wakan [1] in Eisleben, Saxony-Anhalt [2] ) is a German sprinter who specializes in the 100 metres.
At the 2003 World Championships she finished seventh in the 4x100 m relay, together with teammates Melanie Paschke, Marion Wagner and Sandra Möller. At the 2007 World Championships she finished seventh in the relay, together with teammates Cathleen Tschirch, Johanna Kedzierski and Verena Sailer.
Her personal best time on the individual distance is 11.37 seconds, achieved in June 2006 in Regensburg. She has 23.94 seconds in the 200 metres.
Muriel Hurtis-Houairi is a French track and field athlete. She came to prominence in 2002 when she won the 200 m gold medals at both the European Indoor Championships and the European Athletics Championships. The following year she added the World Indoor title and won a bronze medal at the 2003 World Championships in Athletics and a gold in the 4×100 metres relay with France.
Ronald Pognon is a French sprint athlete. He originally specialized in the 200 metres, but later shifted to the shorter sprint distances. He was formerly the European record holder for the 60 metres indoors and is the first Frenchman to go under 10 seconds at the 100 metres.
Brigitte Heike Meissner is a retired German athlete. She competed mainly in the 400 metres hurdles, but also spent two seasons specializing in the 800 metres. Notable achievements include a silver medal at the 2002 European Championships, medals in 4 x 400 metres relay at the 1994 European Championships and the 1997 World Indoor Championships and a fourth place at the 1995 World Championships.
Dagmar Neubauer is a retired German sprinter who specialized in the 400 metres.
Sabine Busch is a retired East German athlete, who specialised in the 400 metres and the 400 metres hurdles. In 1987, she became the World Champion at 400 m hurdles and the World Indoor Champion at 400 m.
Ibrahim Meité is a Côte d'Ivoire sprinter who specializes in the 100 and 200 metres.
Frank Waota is a former track and field sprinter from Ivory Coast who specialized in the 200 metres. He represented his country at the Summer Olympics in 1992 and 1996, and ran at the World Championships in Athletics in 1993. He was a finalist in the 4 × 100 metres relay with the Ivory Coast men's relay team at the 1992 Summer Olympics and the 1993 World Championships in Athletics. He holds personal bests of 6.65 seconds for the 60 metres, 10.28 seconds for the 100 metres and 20.68 seconds for the 200 m.
Cathleen Tschirch is a German sprinter who specialises in the 200 metres. Her personal best time on the individual distance is 22.97 seconds, achieved in August 2007 in Bochum. She has a personal best of 11.42 seconds in the 100 metres.
Johanna Kedzierski is a German sprinter who specializes in the 200 metres.
Sandra Möller is a German sprinter who specializes in the 100 metres.
Sabine Günther is a former East German sprinter who competed mainly in the 200 metres.
Helga Arendt was a West German sprinter who competed mainly in the 400 metres.
Delphine Bertille Atangana is a Cameroonian sprinter who specialized in the 100 metres.
Alessandro Cavallaro is an Italian sprinter who specialized in the 200 metres.
Francesco Scuderi is an Italian sprinter who specialized in the 100 metres.
Maurizio Checcucci is an Italian sprinter who specializes in the 100 metres.
Andrea Colombo is an Italian sprinter who specialized in the 100 metres.
Mariya Ryemyen is a Ukrainian sprint athlete who specializes in the 100 metres. Ryemyen was part of the Ukrainian women's 4 × 100 m that won gold during the 2010 European Athletics with 42.29 – the fastest time in the world that year.
Geraldina Rachel Asher-Smith is a British sprinter internationally active since 2011. In 2019 she was the first British woman to win a World title in a sprint event.
Daryll Saskia Neita is a British sprinter. She won a silver medal in the 200 metres at the 2024 European Championships along with bronze in the 100 metres at the 2022 European Championships, 2022 Commonwealth Games and in the 60 metres at the 2023 European Indoor Championships. She has also won several medals as part of Great Britain 4 × 100 m relay teams, including an Olympic silver medal in 2024 and bronze medals in 2016 and 2021, World Championships silver medals in 2017 and 2019 and European gold in 2018.