100 meter Sprint Queens

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Ivet Lalova (Bulgarian: Ивет Лалова, born 18 May 1984 in Sofia) is a Bulgarian athlete who specialises in the 100 metres and 200 metres sprint events. She is the tenth fastest woman in 100 metres history, and finished fourth in the 100 metres and fifth in the 200 metres at the 2004 Summer Olympics. Her career was interrupted for two years between June 2005 and May 2007 due to a leg injury. She is engaged to the Italian sprinter Simone Collio.

Irina Anatoljewna Privalova (Russian: Ирина Анатольевна Привалова; née Sergeyeva on 22 November 1968 in Malakhovka) is a Russian athlete.
She first competed in the sprint events, winning two Olympic medals in the 100 m and 200 m in 1992 whilst representing the Unified Team. Irina Privalova had been a formidable competitor during most of the 1990s but had not yet won an outdoor world championship gold medal. In 2000, she gambled successfully and switched to the 400 m hurdles discipline winning the Olympic title in Sydney 2000 in 53.02 s and a bronze in the 4 x 400 m relay team for Russia. It has been suggested that this change at the late age of 31 was because her chances of defeating Marion Jones (the overwhelming favourite for the 100 m/200 m double) was slim and the 400 m also being a repeat showdown between Marie-José Pérec and Cathy Freeman from the 1996 Atlanta Games. (That repeat showdown would not happen after Pérec left the Sydney games.)
Irina Privalova is currently the world indoor record holder in the 50 m (5.96 s), 60 m (6.92 s) sprints. She has also been the world indoor champion at the 60 m (7.02 s in 1991), 200 m (22.15 s in 1993), and 400 m (50.23 s in 1995) events.
Privalova is still running, achieving her best time in the 100 m for nine years in 2008.

Veronica Campbell-Brown C.D  (born 15 May 1982) is a track and field sprint athlete, competing internationally for Jamaica. A five-time Olympic medallist, she is the reigning World and Olympic 200 metres champion. At the 2008 Beijing Olympics, she ran the 200 m in 21.74 seconds (the fastest time in a decade) and became the second woman in history to win two consecutive Olympic 200 m events, after Bärbel Wöckel of Germany did so at the 1976 and 1980 Olympics. Brown is ranked the second fastest Jamaican woman over 60 metres (after Merlene Ottey), fourth fastest over 100 metres (after Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, Ottey and Kerron Stewart) and third fastest fastest over 200 metres (after Ottey and Grace Jackson.

Evelyn Ashford (born April 15, 1957 in Shreveport, Louisiana) is a retired American athlete, the 1984 Olympic champion in the 100 m. She has run under the 11 second barrier over 30 times and was the first to run under 11 seconds in an Olympic Games.

As a 19-year-old, Ashford finished 5th in the 100 m event at the 1976 Summer Olympics. After beating the World Record holders in the 100 m and 200 m in 1979, Ashford was one of the potential medalists for the 1980 Summer Olympics, but these Games were boycotted by the United States.

Ashford was ranked #1 in the world by Track & Field News over 100 metres in 1979 and 1981,and over 200 metres in 1981. She also was named Track and Field News "Athlete of the Year" twice, in 1981 and 1984

On July 3, 1983, she set her first World Record (be it at altitude) for the 100 metres, running 10.79 seconds at the National Sports Festival in Colorado Springs, Colorado and was one of the favourites to win the 100 metre title at the inaugural World Championships in Helsinki. In the final, however, she pulled a hamstring muscle and fell. The other main favourite, Marlies Göhr of East Germany (who had already beaten Ashford earlier that year) went on to win.

Kerron Stewart (born 16 April 1984) is a Jamaican sprinter who specializes in the 100 metres and 200 metres. She is the 2008 Jamaican national champion in the 100 m clocking 10.80s. She defeated World Champion Veronica Campbell-Brown in the process and now is the 2008 Summer Olympics silver medalist after she tied with Sherone Simpson in a time of 10.98s. She also earned a bronze medal in the 200 metres at the 2008 Summer Olympics with a time of 22.00s. She was born in Kingston.

Stewart holds the fastest non-winning time for the women's 100 metres. In the 2009 World Athletics Championships from Berlin, she ran 10.75 seconds only to finish second to campatriot, Shelly-Ann Fraser who ran a 10.73 race. Stewart eventually anchored the Jamaican 4x100 m relay team to victory in a time of 42.06, in a great anchor-leg run along side familiar rival, Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie of the Bahamas, who eventually claimed the silver medal

Merlene Joyce Ottey (born May 10, 1960), is a Jamaican-born Slovenian track athlete. Ottey began her career representing Jamaica, but since 2002, has represented Slovenia, where she now resides. She is ranked fourth on the all-time list over 60 metres (indoor), sixth on the all-time list over 100 metres and third on the all-time list over 200 metres.

Christine Arron (born September 13, 1973 in Les Abymes, Guadeloupe) is a track and field sprint athlete, competing internationally for France. She is the fourth fastest woman ever over 100 metres, and holds the European record of 10.73 seconds.

Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, OD (born December 27, 1986) is a Jamaican sprinter, who specializes in the 100 m. Born in Kingston, Jamaica, Fraser is the reigning Olympic champion over 100 m, clocking a time of 10.78. The 2009 World 100 m champion, she is only the second female sprinter to hold both World and Olympic 100 m titles simultaneously (after Gail Devers), and is tied with Christine Arron as the fourth fastest woman in history over 100 m. She attended the Wolmer's High School for Girls and represented her school in many athletic occasions.

Marion Lois Jones (born October 12, 1975), also known as Marion Jones-Thompson, is a former world champion track and field athlete, and a former professional basketball player for Tulsa Shock in the WNBA. She won five medals at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, but forfeited all medals and prizes dating back to September 2000 after her October 2007 admission that she took performance-enhancing drugs as far back as the 2000 Summer Olympics, and that she had lied about it to a grand jury investigating performance-enhancer creations by Victor Conte and the Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative (a.k.a. BALCO).

Carmelita Jeter (born November 24, 1979) is an American sprinter who specializes in the 100 meters. She is the 2011 IAAF World Champion in the 100 metres.
She won the 100 m bronze at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics and a gold at the World Athletics Final. she won a second World Championship bronze. However, greater performances followed, winning her second gold of the World Athletics Final in 10.67 seconds and winning the Shanghai Golden Grand Prix in 10.64 seconds after that. This made her the second fastest woman ever in the 100 m, beating Marion Jones's best and bringing her closer to Florence Griffith-Joyner's long standing world record. Currently she holds three of the top ten times ever run.

Florence Griffith-Joyner (born Florence Delorez Griffith), also known as Flo-Jo (December 21, 1959 – September 21, 1998) was an American track and field athlete. She is considered the "fastest woman of all time" based on the fact that she still holds the world record for both the 100 metres and 200 metres, both set in 1988 and never seriously challenged. She died of epilepsy in 1998 at the age of 38.


Women Sprint Queens

Updated 31 May 2011

Rank	Fastest time	Wind (m/s)	Athlete	Nation	Date	Location
1	10.49	0.0	Florence Griffith-Joyner	United States	16 July 1988	Indianapolis
2	10.64	+1.2	Carmelita Jeter	United States	20 September 2009	Shanghai
3	10.65	+1.1	Marion Jones	United States	12 September 1998	Johannesburg
4	10.73	+0.1	Shelly-Ann Fraser	Jamaica	17 August 2009	Berlin
		+2.0	Christine Arron	France	19 August 1998	Budapest
6	10.74	+1.3	Merlene Ottey	Jamaica	7 September 1996	Milan
7	10.75	+0.4	Kerron Stewart	Jamaica	10 July 2009	Rome
8	10.76	+1.7	Evelyn Ashford	United States	22 August 1984	Zürich
		+1.1	Veronica Campbell-Brown	Jamaica	31 May 2011	Ostrava
10	10.77	+0.9	Irina Privalova	Russia	6 July 1994	Lausanne
		+0.7	Ivet Lalova	Bulgaria	19 June 2004	Plovdiv

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I seek sincere apology from my soccer loving fans that this is neither an exhaustive nor an indicative list of the greatest soccer players! They must never think that somehow I wanted to undermine the abilities of other players whose name did not appear here. It's just few of the greatest goalkeepers someday I overwhelmed to see their performance in old video clips. There are many more great players whom I couldn't remind right now. Would you please name them below?

Gianluigi Buffon (ITA)

 After impressing at Parma Gianluigi Buffon moved to Juventus, where he showed exceptional loyalty in staying with the club when they were demoted to Serie B.

During his club career he has won the UEFA Cup, the Italian Cup, and two Serie A titles. His greatest achievements, however, have come at international level where he currently has 90 caps and is a World Cup winner.

Individually, Buffon has been named as the Serie A Goalkeeper of the Year seven times, and the IFFHS Best Goalkeeper four times, more than any other 'keeper.

Bert Trautmann (GER)

Trautmann didn't just have to compete throughout his career,  with opposition strikers, but with endless taunts from the terraces due to his being in the German army during the Second World War. After the war he settled in England and began playing football.

It says something for the quality of his performances that he eventually became accepted and even idolised by some fans, particularly those of Manchester City, where he became a legend.

The strongest sign of his acceptance came in 1956 when he was named FWA Footballer of the Year. Not long afterwards he helped City to win the FA Cup, playing the last 15 minutes of the final with a broken neck a remarkable feat of bravery made all the more impressive by the fact that he made some important saves in that time.

Sepp Maier (GER)

The German 'keeper on this list, Maier was a one club man who played alongside the likes of Franz Beckenbauer for years on end. As a key member of this golden age for both Germany and Bayern Munich, Maier became one of the most decorated players of his era.

He won the Bundesliga and the German Cup four times each as well as a Cup Winners' Cup, and three consecutive European Cups. At international level, his 95 caps included both a European Championships winners medal (1972), and a World Cup winners medal (1974).

He also won the West German Footballer of the Year award three times. Much of his success was due to his consistency and good health. Between 1966 and 1977 he played 422 matches in a row. That's 11 years without missing a game.

Pat Jennings (NIR)

One of very few players to have played for, and maintained the respect from both Arsenal and Tottenham fans, Pat Jennings played over 1,000 top level games in his 22-year career, and is Northern Ireland's highest capped player with 119 appearances.

Jennings is also a two-time FA Cup winner, a two-time League Cup winner and won a UEFA Cup in 1972 while playing for Tottenham. On an individual level, he was named the FWA Footballer of the Year in 1973, and the PFA Players' Player of the Year in 1976.

Peter Shilton (ENG)

As a Leicester youngster not yet proved at the highest level, he forced then England No.1 and World Cup winner Gordon Banks out of the club by threatening to leave if he didn't get game time. Such was his potential that the club agreed.

Shilton went on to enjoy a 31-year career, playing 1005 league games, and 1237 games overall, more than any other player. He was 47 when he hung up his boots. He also played a record 125 times for England, despite competition from the likes of Banks and Ray Clemence throughout his career.

Shilton was part of Brian Clough's all-conquering Nottingham Forest side, and won one League title, a League Cup and two European Cups. Individually, he was named the PFA Players' Player of the Year in 1978.

Peter Schmeichel (DEN)

The imposing figure of Peter Schmeichel between the sticks was a key reason for Manchester United's dominance throughout the 90s. Before then, however, he was a success at Brondby, helping them to four league titles and a Danish Cup.

He came to international acclaim throughout the European Championships of 1992 as his performances helped Denmark to surprise everyone by winning the tournament. With United, Schmeichel won five Premier League titles, three FA Cups, a League Cup, and a Champions League title.

The Great Dane's last match for the club was the 1999 Champions League final, which they won, completing an unprecedented treble. Another league title in Portugal soon followed. Individually, he was twice named as the World's Best Goalkeeper by IFFHS.

Oliver Kahn (GER)

Oliver Kahn is one of the most decorated German players of all-time, and it's no coincidence that wherever he went, he won trophies and accolades. While at Bayern Munich, Kahn won eight Bundesliga titles, six German Cups, six League Cups, a UEFA Cup, and a Champions League.

The story of success continued with the national team. His 86 caps included being part of the team that won Euro '96. Individually, he has been named German Footballer of the Year twice, IFFHS Best Goalkeeper three times, and Best Bundesliga Goalkeeper seven times.

Dino Zoff (ITA)

Zoff is the oldest player to have ever won a World Cup, having done so at 40 years old, while still captain of the Italian team. He once went 1142 minutes without conceding in international tournaments, a record which stands to this day.

His 112 Italy caps is the third highest of all-time and includes the success in the European Championships of 1968, in addition to the 1982 World Cup mentioned earlier. At club level he won six Serie A titles, two Italian Cups and one UEFA Cup.

Zoff was named as the third greatest goalkeeper of the 20th century in a poll done by IFFHS and, in 2003 was named as the best Italian player of the last 50 years.

Gordon Banks (ENG)

Banks will be forever remembered for that save against Pele in the 1970 World Cup. Although his career wasn't exactly laden with trophies, his quality was recognised as the best in the world during his career.

Banks holds the unique distinction of being the only English goalkeeper to ever win a World Cup. His career was brought to a premature end when he lost the sight from his right eye following a car crash. He tried to continue but was never the same player again.

He finished his career having played 73 times for his country and was named as the second best 'keeper of the 20th century in the IFFHS poll.

Lev Yashin (USSR)

Nicknamed the "Black Spider" because it seemed like he had eight arms to save everything, Lev Yashin was a fiercely passionate goalkeeper with amazing reflexes and jaw-dropping athleticism.

He was a one club man, playing only for Dynamo Moscow. During his career, which also included 74 caps for USSR, Yashin saved over 150 penalties and kept almost 500 clean sheets, a remarkable record for someone who played 812 career games.

He was part of the European Championships winning team of 1960, four years after helping USSR to Olympic gold. Yashin, a three time winner of USSR's Best Goalkeeper award, remains the only goalkeeper to have been named the European Footballer of the Year, an award he picked up in 1963.

In 2000, he was named as the greatest goalkeeper of the 20th century in a poll conducted by IFFHS. I'm going one better, and naming him the greatest goalkeeper of all time.

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