photomark 1 1024x531 1024x531 1All-time performers (based on top eight finishers in individual and relay events)

WOMEN

1st Merlene Ottey/Page (JAM) 70 points: 3 silver, 6 bronze, 1 fourth, 1 fifth, 1 sixth, 1 eighth

2nd Shirley Strickland (AUS) 58 points: 3 gold, 1 silver, 3 bronze, 1 fourth, 1 fifth

3rd Veronica Campbell-Brown (JAM) 55 points: 3 gold, 2 silver, 2 bronze, 1 fourth

=22nd Chandra Sturrup (BAH) 32 points: 1 gold, 1 silver, 2 fourth, 1 fifth, 1 sixth/Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie (BAH) 32 points: 1 gold, 1 bronze, 2 fourth, 4 seventh

=27th Pauline Davis-Thompson (BAH) 30 points: 2 gold, 1 silver, 1 fourth, 1 sixth

=31st Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce (JAM) 30 points: 2 gold,  2 silver/Sandie Richards (JAM) 30 points: 1 silver, 1 bronze, 1 fourth, 2 fifth, 2 seventh

=36th Deon Hemmings (JAM) 29 points: 1 gold, 2 silver, 1 fourth, 1 seventh

=39th Grace Jackson (JAM) 28 points: 1 silver, 1 fourth, 3 fifth, 1 sixth, 1 seventh, 1 eighth

=46th Sherone Simpson (JAM) 27.5 points: 1 gold, 1 + 1=silver, 2 sixth

MEN

1st Paavo Nurmi (FIN) 93 points: 9 gold, 3 silver

2nd Ray Ewry (USA) 80 points: 10 gold

3rd Carl Lewis (USA) 79 points: 9 gold, 1 silver

7th Usain Bolt (JAM) 48 points: 6 gold

=28th Arthur Wint (JAM) 34 points: 2 gold, 2 silver, 1 fifth/Herb McKinley (JAM) 34 points: 2 gold, 2 silver, 1 sixth/Chris Brown (BAH): 34 points: 1 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze, 2 fourth, 1 sixth

=38th Don Quarrie (JAM) 32 points: 1 gold, 2 silver, 1 bronze, 1 fifth

(Source-2016 Rio Olympics IAAF Hand book).

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Clayton Clarke is a freelance track and field journalist since 2005. He is a former athlete and an IAAF Level III coach (Sprints & Hurdles). He has been a writer with Track Alerts since its inception in 2009. He worked with several media houses (radio, tv, newspaper, website) in Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, St. Kitts Nevis and the Bahamas. The Tobago native has covered the Carifta Games since 2005, the 2010 Commonwealth Games, 2011 World Athletic Championships and numerous local and regional track and field events.. Though track and field is his passion and main interest, he has served as media liaison with numerous sporting bodies in T&T and in particular in Tobago, namely cycling, chess, football, beach soccer, taekwondo, rugby, swimming, tennis and beach volleyball.

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