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Title: Gail Devers and Jackie Joyner
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1985
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Used in the Exhibit: Play by Play - A Century of L.A. Sports Photography, 1889-1989
Gail Devers (left) and Jackie Joyner, running the 4x100-meter relay at a UCLA-USC meet. Joyner won two heptathlon gold medals in successive Olympics (1988, 1992), while adding the long-jump gold medal in 1988. Devers is best known for running the 100-meter hurdles, but she won Olympic gold in the 100 in 1992 and 1996. Photo dated: May 29, 1985.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00048853
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box Joyner, Jackie.
CARL0000052914
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/17344
Subject: Devers, Gail,--1966-
Joyner, Jackie
University of California, Los Angeles
University of Southern California
Women athletes--California--Los Angeles
Broad jump
Heptathlon
Relay racing
Runners (Sports)
Track and field
Track and field athletes--California--Los Angeles
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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