A survey of HurdleSteeplechasing Statistics offering the world list of the 100 best track and field performances of all time.[...]

"A book which will very soon be recognised as the athletics volume of the century" So wrote Harold M. Abrahams in his foreword to Roberto Quercetani's first world history of modern athletics, published by Oxford University Press, London, in 1964. Half a century later, those words by the Olympic 100 [...]