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{{Short description|American hurdler (1909–1993)}}
{{Distinguish|Evelyn Halls|Evelyn Beatrice Hall}}
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| image          =Evelyne Hall 1931.jpg
| image_size     = 250 px
| caption        = Hall in 1931
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| birth_date     = September 10, 1909  
| birth_place    = [[Minneapolis, Minnesota]], U.S.
| death_date     = April 20, 1993 (aged 83) 
| death_place    = [[Oceanside, California]], U.S.
| height         = 5 ft 6 in (167 cm)
| weight         = 128 lb (58 kg)
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| sport          = Athletics
| event          = [[80 metres hurdles]]
| pb             = 11.7 (1932)<ref name=sr/><ref name=tf/>
| club           = Illinois Women's Athletic Club
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{{MedalSilver | [[1932 Summer Olympics|1932 Los Angeles]] | [[Athletics at the 1932 Summer Olympics - Women's 80 metre hurdles|80 m hurdles]]}}
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'''Evelyne Ruth Hall''' (née ''Davidson'', later ''Adams'', later ''Butler''; September 10, 1909 &ndash; April 20, 1993) was an American hurdler. She won the AAU title outdoors (80 m) in 1930 and indoors (50 m) in 1931, 1933, 1935. At the 1932 Olympics she earned a silver medal in the 80 m, losing in controversial fashion to [[Mildred Didrikson]] (1). Hall posted at time of 11.7, equal to that of Didrikson, which was a new world record.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Olympedia – Evelyne Hall |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/77852 |access-date=2025-03-28 |website=www.olympedia.org}}</ref> She placed fourth at the 1936 U.S. Olympic Trials and did not qualify.<ref name=sr/><ref name=hall/>

After retiring from competitions, Hall worked as a coach and instructor of physical education. She prepared the first American women's athletics team for the [[1951 Pan American Games]], and for several years headed the U.S. Olympic women's track and field committee. She also worked as a supervisor of the [[Glendale, California#Parks and recreation|Glendale Parks and Recreation]] department.<ref name=sr/><ref name=hall/>

In an interview on November 11, 1991, at the age of 82, Adams claimed to be the "oldest living American Olympic medalist".<ref>{{cite book|author=Louise Mead Tricard|title=American Women's Track and Field: A History, 1895 Through 1980|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vvrwcB3DeEwC&pg=PA201|date=1 January 1996|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-0-7864-0219-9|pages=201–}}</ref> Given the source of this claim it may be that she was referring to track and field athletes only.

==References==
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<ref name=sr>[https://web.archive.org/web/20200417174129/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ha/evelyne-hall-1.html Evelyne Hall]. Sports-reference.com</ref>
<ref name=tf>[http://trackfield.brinkster.net/Profile.asp?ID=992&Gender=W Evelyne Hall] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170807113649/http://trackfield.brinkster.net/Profile.asp?ID=992&Gender=W |date=August 7, 2017 }}. trackfield.brinkster.net</ref>
<ref name=hall>[http://www.usatf.org/HallOfFame/TF/showBio.asp?HOFIDs=65 Evelyne Hall (Adams)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180408005431/http://www.usatf.org/HallOfFame/TF/showBio.asp?HOFIDs=65 |date=April 8, 2018 }}. USATF Hall of Fame</ref>
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1. Paul Soifer, "A Tale of Two Women: Babe Didrikson, Lillian Copeland, and the Women's Discus at the 1932 Olympic Games," Southern California Quarterly 78, no. 3 (Fall 1996), pp.&nbsp;251–252.

== External links ==
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* {{USATF Hall of Fame|65|Evelyne Hall (Adams)}}

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