Track Star Gail Devers Makes Olympic History.

Track and Field. Gail Devers makes 5th Olympic Team

she becomes only the 2nd woman in history to make 5 Olympic teams in Track

Gail Devers became only the second woman in history and the third person overall to make 5 United states. Olympic Teams in track & field, winning her 10^th career national championship in the 100-meter hurdles at the 2004 U.S. Olympic Track & Field Trials.

With her achievement, she joins Hall of Famer Willye White as the only woman to make 5 Olympic Teams and 9-time Olympic gold medalist Carl Lewis as the 3rd American of either sex to make 5.

Also winning Olympic Trials titles Sunday, the final day of competition, were Alan Webb in the men’s 1,500 meters, Olympic gold medalist Stacy Dragila in the women’s pole vault, Terrence Trammell in the men’s 110-meter hurdles, Shawn Crawford in the men’s 200m, Jarred Rome in the men’s discus, Allyson Felix – at age 18 the youngest member of Team USA – in the women’s 200m, Teresa Vaill in the women’s 20 km walk, and Carrie Tollefson in the women’s 1,500m.

Over 8 days of competition, 172, 230 fans saw an onslaught of new records set: two American, 11 Olympic Trials, eight United states championship, two United States junior, one collegiate, one U.S. all-comers, and 3 American U.S. all-comers records.

The 1992 and ’96 Olympic gold medalist in the 100m dash, the 37-year-old Devers got off to her customary fast start, arriving at the first hurdle in first place. Joanna Hayes, who ran the second-fastest time in the world this year with her 12.50 in the semifinals, moved up over the last hurdles, but fell just two one-thousandths of a second shy Devers.

Complementing Devers’ experience will be a youthful women’s 200-meter team. Eighteen-year-old American junior record holder Allyson Felix made a great stretch run to take her 1st national title in 22.28 seconds, the 2nd fastest time of her promising career.

(On June 27 she took out the United States junior title in the 200.) Equally impressive was NCAA runner-up Muna Lee of LSU, who negotiated a lane 1 draw to move up to 2nd in 22.36. World outdoor silver medalist Torri Edwards was third in 22.39, with NCAA champion LaShaunta’e Moore of the University of Arkansas fourth in 22.39.

Among the most anticipated events of the day was the men’s high jump, where local hero Jamie Nieto, buoyed by his hometown crowd, jumped to a win and a personal best with a 2nd attempt clearance at 2.33m/7 feet, 7.5 inches. Hitting the pit after clearing the bar, the 1994 graduate of Valley High School in Sacramento and 1996 graduate of Sacramento City College took off his shirt and made a mad dash for the infield, celebrating his feat as the crowd of 24,323 roared their approval. Matt Hemingway in 2nd (2.30m/7-6.5) and Tora Harris in third (2.27m/7-5.25) qualified for their 1st Olympic Teams, behind 2 time United States champion Nieto.

Stacy Dragila, a native of nearby Auburn, California., provided the day’s addition to the record books, breaking her Olympic Trials record with her winning leap of 4.75m/15-7. Jillian Schwartz made her 1st Olympic Team by placing 2nd at 4.55m/14-11, while 2001 world indoor silver medalist Kellie Suttle made her 2nd Olympic Games Team, also at 4.55m/14-11

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