DeDee Nathan
{{short description|American heptathlete}}
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{{MedalSport | Women's Heptathlon}}
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{{MedalCompetition|Pan American Games}}
{{MedalGold|1991 Havana|Heptathlon}}
{{MedalBronze|1995 Mar del Plata|Heptathlon}}
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LeShundra "DeDee" Nathan (born April 20, 1968, in Birmingham, Alabama) is a retired heptathlete from the United States, who won the gold medal at the 1991 Pan American Games in Havana, Cuba. She is a two-time U.S. champion (2000 and 2001) and the 1999 World Indoor pentathlon gold medalist. She attended high school at South Side High School in Fort Wayne, Indiana and later on graduated from Indiana University.
She was the winner of the 1999 Hypo-Meeting, but placed only twelfth the following year.
International competitions
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| 1991
|bgcolor="gold" | 1st |
| rowspan=2|1993
|8th |Pentathlon |
| World Championships
| 17th |
| rowspan=2|1995
|bgcolor="cc9966" | 3rd |
| World Championships
| 8th |
| rowspan=2|1997
| 7th |Pentathlon |
| World Championships
| 7th |
| 1999
|bgcolor="gold" | 1st |Pentathlon |
| 2000
| 9th |
| 2001
| 7th |
Personal bests
- 200 metres - 24.11
- 800 metres - 2:16.01
- 100 metres hurdles - 13.10
- High jump - 1.81
- Long jump - 6.59
- Shot put - 16.06
- Javelin throw - 50.08
- Heptathlon - 6577
External links
- {{World Athletics}}
- [http://www.usatf.org/athletes/bios/TrackAndFieldArchive/2003/Nathan__DeDee.asp USATF Profile]
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Category:American heptathletes
Category:Sportspeople from Fort Wayne, Indiana
Category:Track and field athletes from Birmingham, Alabama
Category:Track and field athletes from Indiana
Category:African-American track and field athletes
Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Category:Olympic track and field athletes for the United States
Category:World Athletics Championships athletes for the United States
Category:World Athletics Indoor Championships winners
Category:Competitors at the 1998 Goodwill Games
Category:Goodwill Games medalists in athletics
Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 1991 Pan American Games
Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 1995 Pan American Games
Category:Medalists at the 1991 Pan American Games
Category:Medalists at the 1995 Pan American Games
Category:Pan American Games gold medalists for the United States in athletics (track and field)
Category:Pan American Games bronze medalists for the United States in athletics (track and field)
Category:21st-century African-American sportswomen
Category:21st-century American sportswomen
Category:20th-century African-American sportswomen
Category:20th-century American sportswomen
Category:Indiana Hoosiers women's track and field athletes
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