Editing Gail Devers

{{Short description|American athlete (born 1966)}}
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{{Infobox sportsperson
| name = Gail Devers
| image = Devers2.jpg
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| caption = Gail Devers during her induction to the [[National Track and Field Hall of Fame]], 2011
| full_name = Yolanda Gail Devers
| birth_date = {{birth-date and age|November 19, 1966}}<ref name=usatf.org>{{cite web |title=Gail Devers |url=http://www.legacy.usatf.org/athletes/bios/TrackAndFieldArchive/2007/Devers_Gail.asp |website=usatf.org |publisher=[[USA Track & Field]] |access-date=20 May 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150504235430/http://www.usatf.org/athletes/bios/TrackAndFieldArchive/2007/Devers_Gail.asp |archive-date=4 May 2015 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
| birth_place = [[Seattle, Washington]], U.S.
| height = 5 ft 3 in<ref name=usatf.org/>
| weight = 121 lb<ref name=usatf.org/>
| event = Hurdles, Sprints
| collegeteam = [[UCLA Bruins|University of California, Los Angeles]]
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{{Medal|Sport | Women's [[Sport of athletics|athletics]]}}
{{Medal|Country | {{flagu|United States}} }}
{{Medal|Competition|[[Olympic Games]]}}
{{Medal|Gold| [[1992 Summer Olympics|1992 Barcelona]] | [[Athletics at the 1992 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metres|100 m]]}}
{{Medal|Gold| [[1996 Summer Olympics|1996 Atlanta]] | [[Athletics at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metres|100 m]]}}
{{Medal|Gold|1996 Atlanta | [[Athletics at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Women's 4 × 100 metres relay|4 × 100 m relay]]}}
{{Medal|Competition|[[IAAF World Championships in Athletics|World Championships]]}}
{{Medal|Gold |[[1993 World Championships in Athletics|1993 Stuttgart]]| [[1993 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 100 metres|100 m]] }}
{{Medal|Gold |1993 Stuttgart| [[1993 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 100 metres hurdles|100 m hurdles]]}}
{{Medal|Gold |[[1995 World Championships in Athletics|1995 Gothenburg]]| [[1995 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 100 metres hurdles|100 m hurdles]]}}
{{Medal|Gold |[[1997 World Championships in Athletics|1997 Athens]]| [[1997 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 4 × 100 metres relay|4 × 100 m relay]]}}
{{Medal|Gold |[[1999 World Championships in Athletics|1999 Seville]]| [[1999 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 100 metres hurdles|100 m hurdles]]}}
{{Medal|Silver |[[1991 World Championships in Athletics|1991 Tokyo]]| [[1991 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 100 metres hurdles|100 m hurdles]] }}
{{Medal|Silver |1993 Stuttgart| [[1993 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 4 × 100 metres relay|4 × 100 m relay]]}}
{{Medal|Silver |[[2001 World Championships in Athletics|2001 Edmonton]]| [[2001 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 100 metres hurdles|100 m hurdles]]}}
{{Medal|Competition|World Indoor Championships}}
{{Medal|Gold |[[1993 IAAF World Indoor Championships|1993 Toronto]]|60 m }}
{{Medal|Gold |[[1997 IAAF World Indoor Championships|1997 Paris]]|60 m }}
{{Medal|Gold |[[2003 IAAF World Indoor Championships|2003 Birmingham]]|60 m hurdles}}
{{Medal|Gold |[[2004 IAAF World Indoor Championships|2004 Budapest]]|60 m }}
{{Medal|Silver |[[2004 IAAF World Indoor Championships|2004 Budapest]]|60 m hurdles}}
{{Medal|Competition|[[Pan American Games]]}}
{{Medal|Gold| [[1987 Pan American Games|1987 Indianapolis]] | [[Athletics at the 1987 Pan American Games|100 m]]}}
{{Medal|Gold| [[1987 Pan American Games|1987 Indianapolis]] | [[Athletics at the 1987 Pan American Games|4 × 100 m relay]]}}
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'''Yolanda Gail Devers''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|d|iː|v|ər|z}} {{respell|DEE|vərz}};<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://2008.myvote.org/www.loc.gov/nls/other/sayhow.html#d |title=Say How? A Pronunciation Guide to Names of Public Figures: D – Library of Congress. |access-date=2017-08-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170802165617/http://2008.myvote.org/www.loc.gov/nls/other/sayhow.html#d |archive-date=2017-08-02 |url-status=dead}}</ref> born November 19, 1966) is an American retired [[track and field]] sprinter who competed in the [[60 metres]], [[60 m hurdles]], [[100 m]] and [[100 m hurdles]]. One of the greatest and most decorated female sprinters of all time, she was the 1993, 1997 and 2004 [[World Athletics Indoor Championships|world indoor champion]] in the 60 m, while in the 60 m hurdles, she was the 2003 world indoor champion and 2004 silver medalist. In the 100 m, she is the second woman in history to defend an Olympic 100 m title, winning gold at both the 1992 and 1996 [[Athletics at the Summer Olympics|Olympics]]. She was also the 1993 [[World Championships in Athletics|world champion]] in the event, becoming the first ever female sprinter to simultaneously hold the world and Olympic titles in the 100 m.<ref name="2009World">{{cite web |url=http://berlin.iaaf.org/news/kind=108/newsid=53136.html |title=Event Report – Women's 100m – Final |last=Landells |first=Steve |date=17 August 2009 |website=IAAF |access-date=17 August 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090821065449/http://berlin.iaaf.org/news/kind=108/newsid=53136.html |archive-date=21 August 2009}}</ref> In the 100 m hurdles, she was the 1993, 1995 and 1999 world champion, and the 1991 and 2001 world silver medalist. In 2011, she was inducted into the [[National Track and Field Hall of Fame]].

==Life and career==
Devers was born in [[Seattle, Washington]], and grew up near [[National City, California]], graduating from [[Sweetwater High School (National City, California)|Sweetwater High School]] in 1984.<ref name=usatf.org/> Sweetwater's football and track stadium would later be named Gail Devers Stadium. A young talent in the [[100 metres|100 m]] and [[100 metres hurdles|100 m hurdles]], Devers was in training for the [[1988 Summer Olympics]], started experiencing health problems, suffering from among others [[migraine]] and vision loss. She qualified for the Olympics 100 m hurdles, in which she was eliminated in the semi-finals, but her health continued to deteriorate.{{citation needed|date=September 2023}}

Devers started in [[800 metres|800 m]] in high school and ran a personal best of 2:08.<ref>Archived at [https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/fJD6fbFucIQ Ghostarchive]{{cbignore}} and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20201205183732/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJD6fbFucIQ&gl=US&hl=en Wayback Machine]{{cbignore}}: {{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJD6fbFucIQ |title=Athletics LLC EP35: Gail Devers |website=[[YouTube]] |date=December 4, 2020 |access-date=December 4, 2020}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

In 1990, she was diagnosed with [[Graves-Basedow disease|Graves' disease]] and underwent [[Iodine-131|radioactive iodine treatment]] followed by [[levothyroxine|thyroid hormone replacement therapy]].{{citation needed|date=September 2023}} During her radiation treatment, Devers began to develop blistering and swelling of her feet. Eventually, she could barely walk. Devers recovered after the radiation treatment was discontinued, and she resumed training. At the 1991 World Championships, she won a [[silver medal]] in the 100 m hurdles.

At the [[1992 Summer Olympics]], Devers starred. She qualified for the final of the 100 m, which ended in an exciting finish, with five women finishing close (within 0.06 seconds). The [[photo finish]] showed Devers had narrowly beaten [[Jamaica]]n [[Juliet Cuthbert]]. In the final of the 100 m hurdles, Devers' lead event, she seemed to be running towards a second [[gold medal]], when she hit the final hurdle and stumbled over the finish line in fifth place, leaving [[Voula Patoulidou]] from Greece as the upset winner.

In 1993, Devers won the [[1993 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 100 metres#Final|1993 World Championships in Athletics 100 m title]] after – again – a photo finish win over [[Merlene Ottey]] in an apparent dead heat, and the 100 m hurdles title. She retained her hurdles title in 1995.

The 100 m final at the [[1996 Summer Olympics]] was an almost exact repeat of the World Championships final three years before. Ottey and Devers again finished in the same time and did not know who had won the race. Again, both were awarded the same time of 10.94 seconds, but Devers was judged to have finished first and became the first woman to retain the Olympic 100 m title since [[Wyomia Tyus]]. [[Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce]] duplicated the feat in 2012, and [[Elaine Thompson-Herah]] in 2021. In the final of her favorite event, Devers again failed, as she finished fourth and outside of the medals. With the [[4 × 100 metres relay|4 × 100 m relay]] team, Devers won her third Olympic gold medal.

After these Olympics, Devers concentrated on the hurdles event, winning the World Championship again in 1999, but she had to forfeit for the semi-finals at the [[2000 Summer Olympics]].

Devers competed in the 100 m and 100 m hurdles at the [[2004 Summer Olympics]] in Athens, her fifth Olympic Games.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.iaaf.org/athletes/united-states/gail-devers-60432 |title=Gail DEVERS &#124; Profile}}</ref>

Devers left competition in 2005 to give birth to a child with her husband and returned in 2006.

On February 2, 2007, at the age of 40, Devers edged 2004 Olympic champion [[Joanna Hayes]] to win the [[60 metres hurdles|60 m hurdles]] event at the [[Millrose Games]] in 7.86 seconds – the best time in the world that season and just 0.12 off the record she set in 2003. Furthermore, the time bettered the listed World Record for a 40-year-old by almost 7 tenths of a second.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://world-masters-athletics.org/records/indoor-women |title=Records Indoor Women |access-date=2010-02-07 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091205215046/http://www.world-masters-athletics.org/records/indoor-women |archive-date=2009-12-05}} WMA World Indoor Record</ref>

During her career, Devers was notable for having exceptionally long, heavily decorated fingernails. One of the fastest starters in the world, Devers even had to alter her starting position to accommodate her long nails.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://longnailz.blogspot.com/2009/03/gail-deverss-long-nails-1.html |title=Long Nails: Gail Devers's long nails – 1 |access-date=2020-03-16 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101228101655/http://longnailz.blogspot.com/2009/03/gail-deverss-long-nails-1.html |archive-date=2010-12-28}}</ref> Her long nails came as the result of a contest her father devised to get her to stop biting her nails as a child.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1077/is_n5_v52/ai_19201548 |title=Athlete: Gail Devers – the Many-Splendored Faces of Today's Black Woman Ebony – Find Articles |website=findarticles.com |access-date=6 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071110052414/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1077/is_n5_v52/ai_19201548 |archive-date=10 November 2007 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

==International competitions==
{| {{AchievementTable|Event=yes|Result=yes|NotesOff=yes}}
|-
!colspan="6"|Representing the {{USA}}
|-
|rowspan=1|1988
|rowspan=1|[[Athletics at the 1988 Summer Olympics|Olympic Games]]
|rowspan=1|[[Seoul, South Korea]]
|8th (sf)
|100 metres hurdles
|[[Athletics at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metres hurdles|13.51]]
|-
|rowspan=1|1991
|rowspan=1|[[1991 World Championships in Athletics|World Championships]]
|rowspan=1|[[Tokyo, Japan]]
|bgcolor=silver|2nd
|100 metres hurdles
|[[1991 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 100 metres hurdles|12.63]]
|-
|rowspan=2|1992
|rowspan=2|[[Athletics at the 1992 Summer Olympics|Olympic Games]]
|rowspan=2|[[Barcelona, Spain]]
|bgcolor=gold|1st
|100 metres
|[[Athletics at the 1992 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metres|10.82]]
|-
|5th
|100 metres hurdles
|[[Athletics at the 1992 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metres hurdles|12.75]]
|-
|rowspan=4|1993
|rowspan=1|[[1993 IAAF World Indoor Championships|World Indoor Championships]]
|rowspan=1|[[Toronto, Canada]]
|bgcolor=gold|1st
|60 metres
|[[1993 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Women's 60 metres|6.95]]
|-
|rowspan=3|[[1991 World Championships in Athletics|World Championships]]
|rowspan=3|[[Stuttgart, Germany]]
|bgcolor=gold|1st
|100 metres
|[[1993 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 100 metres|10.82]]
|-
|bgcolor=gold|1st
|100 metres hurdles
|[[1993 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 100 metres hurdles|12.46]]
|-
|bgcolor=silver|2nd
|4 × 100 metres
|[[1993 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 4 × 100 metres relay|41.49]]
|-
|rowspan=1|1995
|rowspan=1|[[1995 World Championships in Athletics|World Championships]]
|rowspan=1|[[Göteborg, Sweden]]
|bgcolor=gold|1st
|100 metres hurdles
|[[1995 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 100 metres hurdles|12.68]]
|-
|rowspan=3|1996
|rowspan=3|[[Athletics at the 1996 Summer Olympics|Olympic Games]]
|rowspan=3|[[Atlanta, United States]]
|bgcolor=gold|1st
|100 metres
|[[Athletics at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metres|10.94]]
|-
|4th
|100 metres hurdles
|[[Athletics at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metres hurdles|12.66]]
|-
|bgcolor=gold|1st
|4 × 100 metres
|[[Athletics at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Women's 4 × 100 metres relay|41.95]]
|-
|rowspan=2|1997
|rowspan=1|[[1997 IAAF World Indoor Championships|World Indoor Championships]]
|rowspan=1|[[Paris, France]]
|bgcolor=gold|1st
|60 metres
|[[1997 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Women's 60 metres|7.06]]
|-
|rowspan=1|[[1997 World Championships in Athletics|World Championships]]
|rowspan=1|[[Athens, Greece]]
|bgcolor=gold|1st
|4 × 100 metres
|[[1995 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 4 × 100 metres relay|41.47]]
|-
|rowspan=4|1999
|rowspan=1|[[1999 IAAF World Indoor Championships|World Indoor Championships]]
|rowspan=1|[[Maebashi, Japan]]
|bgcolor=silver|2nd
|60 metres
|[[1999 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Women's 60 metres|7.02]]
|-
|rowspan=3|[[1999 World Championships in Athletics|World Championships]]
|rowspan=3|[[Seville, Spain]]
|5th
|100 metres
|[[1999 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 100 metres|10.95]]
|-
|bgcolor=gold|1st
|100 metres hurdles
|[[1999 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 100 metres hurdles|12.37]]
|-
|4th
|4 × 100 metres
|[[1999 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 4 × 100 metres relay|42.30]]
|-
|rowspan=1|2000
|rowspan=1|[[Athletics at the 2000 Summer Olympics|Olympic Games]]
|rowspan=1|[[Sydney, Australia]]
| —
|100 metres hurdles
|[[Athletics at the 2000 Summer Olympics - Women's 100 metres hurdles|DNF (sf)]]
|-
|rowspan=1|2001
|rowspan=1|[[2001 World Championships in Athletics|World Championships]]
|rowspan=1|[[Edmonton, Canada]]
|bgcolor=silver|2nd
|100 metres hurdles
|[[2001 World Championships in Athletics - Women's 100 metres hurdles|12.54]]
|-
|rowspan=1|2002
|rowspan=1|[[2002 IAAF World Cup|IAAF World Cup]]
|rowspan=1|[[Madrid, Spain]]
|bgcolor=gold|1st
|100 metres hurdles
|12.65
|-
|rowspan=4|2003
|rowspan=1|[[2003 IAAF World Indoor Championships|World Indoor Championships]]
|rowspan=1|[[Birmingham, United Kingdom]]
|bgcolor=gold|1st
|60 metres hurdles
|[[2003 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Women's 60 metres hurdles|7.81]]
|-
|rowspan=2|[[2003 World Championships in Athletics|World Championships]]
|rowspan=2|[[Paris, France]]
|6th
|100 metres
|[[2003 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 100 metres|11.11]]
|-
|3rd (sf)
|100 metres hurdles
|[[2003 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 100 metres hurdles|12.87]]
|-
|rowspan=1|[[2003 IAAF World Athletics Final|World Athletics Final]]
|rowspan=1|[[Monte Carlo, Monaco]]
|bgcolor=gold|1st
|100 metres hurdles
||12.45
|-
|rowspan=4|2004
|rowspan=2|[[2004 IAAF World Indoor Championships|World Indoor Championships]]
|rowspan=2|[[Budapest, Hungary]]
|bgcolor=gold|1st
|60 metres
|[[2004 IAAF World Indoor Championships - Women's 60 metres|7.08]]
|-
|bgcolor=silver|2nd
|60 metres hurdles
|[[2004 IAAF World Indoor Championships - Women's 60 metres hurdles|7.78]]
|-
|rowspan=2|[[Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics|Olympic Games]]
|rowspan=2|[[Athens, Greece]]
|7th (sf)
|100 metres
|[[Athletics at the 2000 Summer Olympics - Women's 100 metres|11.22]]
|-
| —
|100 metres hurdles
|[[Athletics at the 2000 Summer Olympics - Women's 100 metres hurdles|DNF (sf)]]
|-
|}

==Achievements and recognition==
In 2011, she was elected into the [[National Track and Field Hall of Fame]]. The following year she was elected into the [[United States Olympic Hall of Fame]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.legacy.usatf.org/News/Devers%2C-O%E2%80%99Brien%2C-Temple%2C-Connolly-selected-to-U-S-.aspx |title=USA Track & Field – Devers, O'Brien, Temple, Connolly selected to U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame |access-date=2019-11-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160310174836/http://www.usatf.org/News/Devers,-O%E2%80%99Brien,-Temple,-Connolly-selected-to-U-S-.aspx |archive-date=2016-03-10 |url-status=dead}}</ref> In November 2012, Devers was announced as a 2013 recipient of the [[National Collegiate Athletic Association|NCAA]] [[Silver Anniversary Awards (NCAA)|Silver Anniversary Award]], presented annually to six distinguished former college student-athletes on the 25th anniversary of the end of their college sports careers.<ref>{{cite press release |url=https://www.ncaa.org/wps/wcm/connect/public/NCAA/Resources/Latest+News/2012/November/NCAA+announces+Silver+Anniversary+Award+winners |title=NCAA announces Silver Anniversary Award winners |publisher=[[National Collegiate Athletic Association|NCAA]] |date=November 8, 2012 |access-date=January 3, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130102012812/http://www.ncaa.org/wps/wcm/connect/public/NCAA/Resources/Latest%2BNews/2012/November/NCAA%2Bannounces%2BSilver%2BAnniversary%2BAward%2Bwinners |archive-date=January 2, 2013}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
{{Portal|Biography}}
* {{World Athletics}}
* {{USATF Hall of Fame|id=245}}
* {{Team USA Hall of Fame|new_id=gail-devers|old_id=Gail-Devers|archive=20230720074708}}
* {{Olympics.com profile}}
* {{Olympedia}}
* Gail Devers' struggle with [[Graves' disease]] is featured in the 1996 television movie, "Run for the Dream: The Gail Devers Story" starring Charlayne Woodard as Gail Devers and [[Louis Gossett Jr.]] as Gail's coach [[Bob Kersee]].

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