- Chryste Gaines
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Medal record Women's athletics Competitor for the 
United StatesOlympic Games Gold 1996 Atlanta 4x100 metres relay Bronze 2000 Sydney 4x100 metres relay World Championships Gold 1995 Gothenburg 4x100 metres relay Gold 1997 Athens 4x100 metres relay Silver 2003 Paris 4x100 metres relay Pan American Games Gold 1995 Mar del Plata 100 metres Chryste Dionne Gaines (born September 14, 1970 in Lawton, Oklahoma) is an American athlete who competed mainly in the 100 metres.
A 1988 graduate of South Oak Cliff High School in Dallas, Texas,[1] Gaines competed for the United States in the 1996 Summer Olympics held in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S., in the 4 x 100 metres where she won the gold medal with teammates Olympic 100m champion Gail Devers, Inger Miller and Gwen Torrence who won the 200m gold and a bronze in the 100m.
She returned to Sydney for the 2000 Summer Olympics as the sole survivor of the 4 x 100 meters, this time she lined up with double sprint gold medalist Marion Jones and fellow Americans Torri Edwards and Nanceen Perry but could only come away with the bronze medal.
Recently, she (with her other 4x100 meter teammates) had been asked to return her bronze medal won at the Sydney Olympic Games in 2000 as well as other achievements due to steroid use. She and 6 other members of the 2000 team would successfully appeal the IOC's decision to force them to return their 2000 medals in July 2010.[2]
References
- ^ "My High School: South Oak Cliff," The Dallas Morning News sports section online.
- ^ Associated Press (April 10, 2008). "US relay runners win Olympic medals appeal". ESPN. http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/wire?section=oly&id=5385884.
Pan American Champions in Women's 100 m 1951: Julia Sánchez (PER) • 1955: Barbara Jones (USA) • 1959: Lucinda Williams (USA) • 1963: Edith McGuire (USA) • 1967: Barbara Ferrell (USA) • 1971: Iris Davis (USA) • 1975: Pam Jiles (USA) • 1979: Evelyn Ashford (USA) • 1983: Esmeralda García (BRA) • 1987: Gail Devers (USA) • 1991: Liliana Allen (CUB) • 1995: Chryste Gaines (USA) • 1999: Chandra Sturrup (BAH) • 2003: Lauryn Williams (USA) • 2007: Mikele Barber (USA) • 2011: Rosângela Santos (BRA)
Summer Universiade Champions in Women's 100 m 1959: Giuseppina Leone (ITA) • 1961: Tatyana Shchelkanova (URS) • 1963: Renate Lace (URS) • 1965: Irena Kirszenstein (POL) • 1967: Barbara Ferrell (USA) • 1970: Renate Meissner (GDR) • 1973: Mona-Lisa Pursiainen (FIN) • 1975: Lyudmila Maslakova (URS) • 1977: Lyudmila Storozhkova (BUL) • 1979: Marlies Göhr (GDR) • 1981: Beverley Goddard (GBR) • 1983: Bev Kinch (GBR) • 1985: Irina Slyusar (URS) • 1987: Gwen Torrence (USA) • 1989: Liliana Allen (CUB) • 1991: Chryste Gaines (USA) • 1993: Dahlia Duhaney (JAM) • 1995: Melanie Paschke (GER) • 1997: Ekaterini Thanou (GRE) • 1999: Angela Williams (USA) • 2001: Abiodun Oyepitan (GBR) • 2003: Qin Wangping (CHN) • 2005: Olga Khalandyreva (RUS) • 2007: Johanna Manninen (FIN) • 2009: Lina Grinčikaitė (LTU) • 2011: Carrie Russell (JAM)
IAAF World / Continental Cup Champions in Women's 4 x 100 m relay 1977: Europe (Possekel, Lynch, Richter, Lannaman) • 1979: Europe (Haglund, Réga, Richter, Hunte) • 1981: East Germany (Siemon, Wöckel, Walther, Göhr) • 1985: East Germany (Gladisch, Rieger, Auerswald, Göhr) • 1989: East Germany (Behrendt, Günther, Möller, Oschkenat) • 1992: Asia (Gao, Tian, Chen, Xiao) • 1994: Africa (Idehen, Tombiri, Opara-Thompson, Onyali) • 1998: United States (Taplin, Gaines, Miller, Guidry) • 2002: Americas (Lawrence, Campbell, McDonald, Ferguson) • 2006: Americas (Bailey, Ferguson-McKenzie, Mothersille, Simpson) • 2010: Americas (Mothersille, Ferguson-McKenzie, Solomon, Baptiste)
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