Born: November 19, 1966
Country: United States of America
Weight: 54.9 kgs
Height: 160 cm
Events: Track and Field (100m, 100m Hurdles)
Olympic Records:
1992 Barcelona Games: 1st in 100m
1996 Atlanta Games: 1st in 100m, 1st in 4x100m relays
Other Records:
2001 World Championship: 2nd in 100m
1999 World Championship: 1st in 100m hurdles
1995 World Championship: 1st in 100m hurdles
1993 World Championship: 1st in 100m hurdles, 1st in 100m
1991 World Championship: 2nd in 100m
The best women's 100m hurdler in the past 10 years, Gail Devers is back to win the hurdles title in the Olympics which has so far deluded her. Devers is looking forward for her first medal in the 100m hurdles in Athens, her fifth Games.
She has been unlucky in the Olympic hurdles as in 1988 she was eliminated in the heats. In 1992, she led the final until hitting the final hurdle; she fell across the finish line in fifth. In 1996, she missed the bronze by .01 of a second. Devers' bad luck continued in Sydney when after winning the 100-meter hurdles at the US Olympic Trials and lowering the American record with the event's fastest time in eight years, was forced to pull out of the race due to injuries.
Fighting from Graves’ disease, debilitating chronic thyroid disorder, since 1989 and her failure to secure the 100m hurdles gold medal in the Olympics has never deterred her from giving her best and coming back at an age when many athletes have given up. She is determined to make things go her way this time at Athens and this makes her the strongest contender in the event which she specializes in, 100m hurdles.
{{/usCountry}}Fighting from Graves’ disease, debilitating chronic thyroid disorder, since 1989 and her failure to secure the 100m hurdles gold medal in the Olympics has never deterred her from giving her best and coming back at an age when many athletes have given up. She is determined to make things go her way this time at Athens and this makes her the strongest contender in the event which she specializes in, 100m hurdles.
{{/usCountry}}In 1995, she secured the No 1 US ranking for the first time in the 100-meter hurdles after winning the National Champion and World Champion titles.