Track and Field
- Donovan Bailey, (born 1967), sprinter, former 100m world record holder
- Bruny Surin, (born 1967), sprinter, tied with Donovan Bailey for Canadian 100m record
- Sam Effah, (born 1988), sprinter, 100m
- Justyn Warner, (born 1987), sprinter, 100m
- Bryan Barnett, (born 1987), sprinter, 100m and 200m
- Jared Connaughton, (born 1985), sprinter, 100m and 200m
- Pierre Browne, (born 1980), sprinter, 100m in the Olympics
- Hank Palmer, (born 1985), sprinter, 2008 Olympics
- Étienne Desmarteau (1873–1905), weight thrower, Olympic champion
- Nicole Forrester, (born 1976), high jumper, gold medalist at the 2010 Commonwealth Games
- Alice Falaiye, (born 1978), long jumper, gold medalist at the 2009 Pan American Games and 2010 Commonwealth Games
- Sultana Frizell, (born 1984), hammer thrower, gold medalist at the 2010 Commonwealth Games
- Jennifer Joyce, (born 1980), hammer thrower, silver medalist at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
- Gary Reed, (born 1981), 800m, silver medalist at the 2007 World Championships
- Nathan Brannen, (born 1982), 800m, 2009 World Championships
- Perdita Felicien, (born 1980), 2003 world champion in 100m hurdles
- Priscilla Lopes-Schliep, (born 1982), 100m hurdles, silver medalist at the 2009 World Championships
- Angela Whyte, (born 1980), 100m hurdles, silver medalist at the 2007 and 2011 Pan American Games
- Phylicia George, (born 1987), 100m hurdles
- Nikkita Holder, (born 1987), 100m hurdles
- Harry Jerome (1940–1982) sprinter
- Ben Johnson, (born 1961), sprinter, disqualified from Olympic gold medal for doping
- Jamie Adjetey-Nelson, (born 1984), decathlete and gold medalist at the 2010 Commonwealth Games
- Jessica Zelinka, (born 1981), heptathlete and pentathlete, gold medalist at the 2007 Pan American Games
- Brianne Theisen, (born 1988), heptathlete, 2009 World Championships
- Scott Russell, (born 1979), javelin thrower
- Robert Kerr (1882–1963), Olympic gold medalist in the 1908 Olympics
- George Orton (1873–1958), first Canadian to become Olympic champion
- Fanny Rosenfeld (1904–1969), runner & long jumper, world record (100-yard dash); Olympic champion (4x100-m relay) and silver (100-m)
- Dylan Armstrong, (born 1981), shot putter, Pan American Games record, second at world championships
- Percy Williams (1908–1982), Olympic champion sprinter
- Joël Bourgeois, (born 1971), 3000 meter Steeplechase, 1996 and 2000 Olympics
- Reid Coolsaet, born (1979), marathon runner, London 2012 Olympics
- Eric Gillis, born (1980), marathon runner, 2008 Beijing & London 2012 Olympics
- Dylan Wykes, (born 1983), marathon runner, 2009 World Championships
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Famous quotes containing the words track and/or field:
“It is remarkable how easily and insensibly we fall into a particular route, and make a beaten track for ourselves. I had not lived there a week before my feet wore a path from my door to the pond-side; and though it is five or six years since I trod it, it is still quite distinct. It is true, I fear, that others may have fallen into it, and so helped to keep it open.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Give me the splendid silent sun
with all his beams full-dazzling,
Give me juicy autumnal fruit ripe and red from the orchard,
Give me a field where the unmow’d grass grows,
Give me an arbor, give me the trellis’d grape,
Give me fresh corn and wheat, give me serene-moving animals teaching content,”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)