The NOTABLE American Track and Field Delegates Competing in the Beijing Olympic Games 2008:
source: teamUSA.org
Amy Acuff is the most experienced Olympian on the roster, this being her fourth Olympic Team.
Adam Nelson is the most experienced male Olympian for team USA. The two-time medalist has made his third Olympic Team.
Bernard Lagat is a three-time Olympian but this is his first time representing the U.S.
- Angelo Taylor won the first World Championships medal on the current roster, winning gold in 1999 in the 4x400m relay. He won gold in the 4x400 and bronze in the 400 eight years later, in Osaka.
- Taylor (gold, 400mH), Adam Nelson (silver, MSP), Terrence Trammell (silver, M110mH) and Bernard Lagat (bronze, M1,500m for Kenya) are the earliest Olympic medalists, first making the medal stand in Sydney in 2000.
- Angela Williams is the earliest women's medal-winner, winning 4x100m gold at the 2001 Worlds.
- Nelson has won a medal at every Olympic Games and World Outdoor Championships since 2000. (Silver in the 2000 and 2004 Olympics; gold at 2005 Worlds and silver in '01, '03 and '07)
- At age 40, Jeff Hartwig qualified for his second Olympic Team and first Olympic roster in 12 years. He was second at the 1996 Olympic Trials and 11th at the Games in Atlanta but no-heighted at the Trials in 2000 and 2004. Hartwig will be 41 in September and is the oldest member of the men's team.
- At age 44, Joanne Dow is the oldest member of the team, male or female.
- Women's 400m hurdler Queen Harrison, 19, is the youngest member of the team, while men's 800m runner Andrew Wheating, 20, is the youngest male.
