Olympics quiz: who are the missing medallists?

Kelly Holmes wins gold medal in Athens in 2004 after an incredible final 50 metres. Photograph: Tom Jenkins/The Guardian

1. Seoul 1988, men's 100m (after Ben Johnson's disqualification) … gold: Carl Lewis, silver: Linford Christie, bronze: ???

   1. Calvin Smith

   2. Leroy Burrell

   3. Dennis Mitchell

   4. Robson da Silva

2. Athens 2004, women's 800m … gold: Kelly Holmes, silver: Hasna Benhassi, bronze: ???

   1. Maria Mutola

   2. Jearl Miles Clark

   3. Janeth Jepkosgei

   4. Jolanda Ceplak

3. Moscow 1980, men's 200m … gold: ???, silver: Allan Wells, bronze: Don Quarrie

   1. Carl Lewis

   2. Bernhard Hoff

   3. Pietro Mennea

   4. Silvio Leonard

4. Rio 2016, women's 100m hurdles … gold: Brianna Rollins, silver: Nia Ali, bronze: ???

   1. Kristi Castlin

   2. Sally Pearson

   3. Tiffany Porter

   4. Kendra Harrison

5. Mexico City 1968, men's long jump … gold: Bob Beamon, silver: ???, bronze: Ralph Boston

   1. Lynn Davies

   2. Igor Ter-Ovanesyan

   3. Randy Williams

   4. Klaus Beer

6. Sydney 2000, women's 400m … gold: Cathy Freeman, silver: ???, bronze: Katharine Merry

   1. Monique Hennagan

   2. Lorraine Fenton

   3. Marie-José Pérec

   4. Tonique Williams-Darling

7. Beijing 2008, men's 100m … gold: Usain Bolt, silver: Richard Thompson, bronze: ???

   1. Asafa Powell

   2. Justin Gatlin

   3. Walter Dix

   4. Kim Collins

8. Barcelona 1992, women's 400m hurdles … gold: Sally Gunnell, silver: Sandra Farmer-Patrick, bronze: ???

   1. Deon Hemmings

   2. Kim Batten

   3. Janeene Vickers

   4. Tatyana Ledovskaya

9. Montreal 1976, men's decathlon … gold: Bruce Jenner, silver: Guido Kratschmer, bronze: ???

   1. Daley Thompson

   2. Mykola Avilov

   3. Yuriy Kutsenko

   4. Raimo Pihl

10. London 2012, women's heptathlon (after Tatyana Chernova's disqualification) … gold: Jessica Ennis, silver: ???, bronze: Austra Skujyte

    1. Carolina Klüft

    2. Jennifer Oeser

    3. Lilli Schwarzkopf

    4. Brianne Theisen

11. Munich 1972, men's 4x400m relay … gold: ???, silver: Great Britain, bronze: France

    1. East Germany

    2. West Germany

    3. USA

    4. Kenya

12. Los Angeles 1984, women's javelin … gold: Tessa Sanderson, silver: ???, bronze: Fatima Whitbread

    1. Tiina Lillak

    2. Trine Solberg

    3. Petra Felke

    4. Beate Koch

13. Atlanta 1996, men's 400m … gold: Michael Johnson, silver: Roger Black, bronze: ???

    1. Davis Kamoga

    2. Alvin Harrison

    3. Gregory Haughton

    4. Butch Reynolds

14. Atlanta 1996, women's long jump … gold: Chioma Ajunwa, silver: ???, bronze: Jackie Joyner-Kersee

    1. Inessa Kravits

    2. Lyudmila Galkina

    3. Fiona May

    4. Heike Drechsler

15. Seoul 1988, men's 110m hurdles … gold: Roger Kingdom, silver: ???, bronze: Tonie Campbell

    1. Greg Foster

    2. Jon Ridgeon

    3. Jack Pierce

    4. Colin Jackson

Solutions

1:A - Smith's 9.99sec run was the first sub-10sec run at an Olympics or world championships that didn't win gold – it equalled Lewis's winning time from four years earlier. , 2:D - Clark led at the bell, while Mutola joined Holmes in scything through the field from back to front, going into the final 50m in the lead, before fading badly in the closing strides to be overhauled by both Benhassi and Ceplak., 3:C - The Italian held the world record for almost 17 years, and in 1980 – in a Games boycotted by the USA – he went two better than his bronze eight years earlier., 4:A - Castlin took the bronze and completed a USA clean sweep in the event – Harrison failed to make the team that year, finishing sixth in the trials, but weeks before the Rio Olympics broke the world record at the Anniversary Games in London., 5:D - Representing East Germany, Beer finished an astonishing 71cm behind Beamon's legendary leap of 8.90m., 6:B - Fenton became Jamaica's first Olympic medallist in the event, a year after taking bronze behind Freeman at the 1999 world championships in Seville., 7:C - Dix won two bronzes in Beijing in the wake of sensational world records from Bolt – in the 100m final the top six all broke 10 seconds. Gatlin was banned from 2006-10 for a doping offence, Collins has never won an Olympic medal despite five in the world championships, while Powell's only Games podium was gold as part of the 2016 4x100m team., 8:C - Team USA's Vickers repeated her bronze from the world championships the year before, where she finished behind Ledovskaya and Gunnell., 9:B - Avilov was defending champion and the former world record holder before a sensational few years in the event from Jenner, now known as Caitlyn, who broke the best ever mark three times before taking Olympic gold., 10:C - The German put in a personal best performance, and was trailed in third and fourth by Russia's Chernova and Ukraine's Lyudmyla Yosipenko – disqualifications for both over doping offences resulted in Skujyte belatedly being awarded the bronze having originally finished fifth., 11:D - Charles Asati, Munyoro Nyamau, Robert Ouko and Julius Sang won a race left wide open after the USA were unable to field a team following bans handed to Vince Matthews and Wayne Collett because the pair, who won gold and silver in the individual event, didn't stand to sufficient attention during the medal ceremony. The British quartet of Martin Reynolds, Alan Pascoe, Dave Hemery and David Jenkins took silver., 12:A - The Finnish thrower won gold at the 1983 world championships. Felke won gold at Seoul 1988, while Solberg – later Hattestad – was fifth in Los Angeles but 16 years later took the gold in Sydney. The unfortunately-named-to-English-speaking-ears Koch won bronze in 1988., 13:A - Uganda's Kamoga went one better at Athens 1997, winning silver for his country's first ever world championships medal., 14:C - The Slough-born Italian jumper leaped into world class after switching allegiance from Britain, winning Olympic silvers in 1996 and 2000, the latter behind Drechsler, as well as gold medals at both the 1995 and 2001 world championships. She also won bronze and silver at the 1997 and 1999 worlds., 15:D - Incredibly, Jackson's only Olympic medal, despite making the podium at four world championships. Ridgeon and Jackson took silver and bronze behind Foster at the Rome 1987 worlds.

Scores

1. 10 and above.

   Two-thirds of your way to the gold

2. 11 and above.

   Well placed for four years down the line

3. 12 and above.

   Agonisingly just outside the medal positions

4. 13 and above.

   Battering your way through to the bronze

5. 14 and above.

   A memorable sprint to a deserved silver

6. 15 and above.

   Gold, a homecoming parade and a postbox in your honour

7. 9 and above.

   Out of the semis … but nowhere in the final

8. 8 and above.

   Still in contention … until the final lap

9. 7 and above.

   Getting dropped just before the bell

10. 6 and above.

    Well it's more than a third

11. 5 and above.

    Like a sprinter entering the 5,000m

12. 4 and above.

    Clipped quite a few hurdles, there

13. 3 and above.

    It's all about the taking part, after all

14. 2 and above.

    Didn't so much drop the baton as throw it out of the stadium

15. 0 and above.

    The quiz equivalent of 15 false starts

16. 1 and above.

    Head-first into the steeplechase water jump