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Hrysopiyi Devetzi

Devetzi in 2006
Personal information
Born	(1976-01-02) 2 January 1976 (age 48)
Sport
Country	Greece
Sport	Athletics
Event	Triple jump
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)	15.32 m, 14.84 m (i)
Medal record Olympic Games 2004 Athens Triple jump Disqualified 2008 Beijing Triple jump World Championships Disqualified 2007 Osaka Triple jump World Indoor Championships Disqualified 2008 Valencia Triple jump 2004 Budapest Triple jump European Championships 2006 Göteborg Triple jump World Cup 2006 Athens Triple jump 2006 Athens Long jump Mediterranean Games 2005 Almeria Triple jump

Hrysopiyi "Piyi" Devetzi (Greek: Χρυσοπηγή Δεβετζή, [xrisopiˈʝi ðeveˈdzi], born January 2, 1976^[1]) is a retired Greek athlete who competed in the triple jump and long jump.

Devetzi was born in Alexandroupoli. She won the triple jump silver medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics with 15.25 and the triple jump bronze medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics with 15.23. At the 2004 Summer Olympics semifinal she set a Greek record of 15.32 metres. This performance ranked her in the fourth place of all time triple jumpers, after the world record holder, Inessa Kravets, her greatest rival Tatyana Lebedeva and the twice-olympic gold medalist Françoise Mbango Etone. She won another silver medal at the 2006 European Athletics Championships in Gothenburg, losing the gold at the last jump by Tatyana Lebedeva. The same story was repeated at the 2008 IAAF World Indoor Championships in Valencia, in which "Piyi" lost the 1st place at the sixth jump by Yargelis Savigne.

Devetzi was known for often jumping longer in qualification rounds than in finals, as at the 2004 Olympics, and also for her lack of gold at major championships, despite having been one of the world's leading female triple jumpers.

She was named the Greek Female Athlete of the Year for the years 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008.

In May 2009 Devetzi refused to submit to doping control. Failing to submit sample equals a positive test, and she was subsequently handed a two-year doping ban.^[2][3]

In 2016, samples given by Devetzi in August 2007 were retested revealing stanozolol. Her subsequent results (for the next four years), covering the time until her retirement, were annulled, including the 2008 Olympic bronze medal. Her 2007 World Championship bronze medal was also annulled.^[4]

On 17 November 2016 the IOC disqualified Devetzi from the 2008 Olympic Games, stripped her Olympic bronze medal and struck her long jump and triple jump results from the record for failing a drugs test in a re-analysis of her doping sample from 2008.^[5]

• (*) Third among Greek long jumpers, behind Niki Xanthou (7.03) and Paraskevi Tsiamita (6.93).^[6]

(Records in bold are current ones.)

• Official website at the Wayback Machine (archived 22 August 2009)
• Hrysopiyi Devetzi at Olympics.com
• Hrysopiyi Devetzi at HellenicAthletes.com at the Wayback Machine (archived 13 March 2007)
• Chrysopigi Devetzi at World Athletics
• Pigi Devetzi at the Hellenic Olympic Committee
• Pigi Devetzi at Olympedia (archive)