Cuban champion Alberto Juantorena crosses victoriously the finish line of the Olympic men's 800m event, July 1976 in Montreal where he won two gold medals, 400m and 800m, establishing a new 800m world ...

Michael Johnson is one of the greatest sprinters in the history of the track and field world. From being the only male athlete to have won both the 200m and the 400m event in the same Olympics, to ...

Cuba’s Alberto Juantorena, the 1976 double Olympic champion and former World record holder, is the latest athletics legend to be named as one of the 24 inaugural Members of the IAAF Hall of Fame which ...

As the postponed Tokyo 2020 Olympics loom closer (surely you hadn't forgotten?) there’s a new documentary film out - Running for the Revolution - that chronicles the life of Cuba's Olympic legend ...

The announcement of this honour comes followed the Ibero-American Championships in Barquisimeto, Venezuela, where the Cuban team won eight titles and a total of 18 medals for second place on the medal ...

Cuban athlete Alberto Juantorena becomes the only athlete to win both the 400m and 800m Olympic titles at the Montreal Games in 1976.

Golden moment: Alberto Juantorena wins the 800m at the Montreal Olympics Alberto Juantorena paused for thought: "I don't know why I'm telling you all this. If your country did all these things, and ...

In 1976, the Cuban runner, Alberto Juantorena, pulled off a unique double at the Montreal Olympics - winning both the 400 and 800 metres. The victory made the athlete known as 'White Lightning' a hero ...