Full list of all final runners in the Olympic Torch Relay and lighters of the Olympic Fire at Olympic Summer Games:

1936 Summer Olympics: Fritz Schilgen, a track athlete.

1948 Summer Olympics: John Mark, a track athlete.

1952 Summer Olympics: Paavo Nurmi, winner of nine Olympic gold medals in distance running in the 1920s.

1956 Summer Olympics: Ron Clarke and Hans Wikne (Stockholm). Long distance runner Clarke would later win an Olympic bronze medal in 1964 ; Hans Wikne later participated in the 1964 Olympics.

1960 Summer Olympics: Giancarlo Peris, track athlete of Greek descent.

1964 Summer Olympics: Yoshinori Sakai, track and field athlete, born on the day the atom bomb exploded over his native Hiroshima.

1968 Summer Olympics: Norma Enriqueta Basilio de Sotelo, a sprinter who participated in these Olympics. She was the first woman to be the last torch bearer.

1972 Summer Olympics: Gunther Zahn, a middle distance runner.

1976 Summer Olympics: Stephane Prefontaine and Sandra Henderson, two teenagers.

1980 Summer Olympics: Sergey Belov, basketball player who won four Olympic medals, including a gold one in 1972.

1984 Summer Olympics: Rafer Johnson, winner of the decathlon at the 1960 Olympics.

1988 Summer Olympics: Chung Sun-Man, Kim Won-Tak and Sohn Mi-Chung, three young track and field athletes. Kim took part in the Olympic marathon.

1992 Summer Olympics: Antonio Rebollo, a archer who competed in the Paralympic Games.

1996 Summer Olympics: Muhammad Ali, boxer who won the Olympic gold in 1960 (then still under the name Cassius Clay).

2000 Summer Olympics: Cathy Freeman, a track and field athlete. She won the Olympic gold medal in the 400 m at these Olympics