Glenn Davis (athlete)

Glenn Davis
nation	United States
birthday	September 12, 1934
place of birth	Wellsburg
size	183 cm
Weight	77 kg
date of death	January 28, 2009
Place of death	Barberton
Career
discipline	Hurdles
Medal table
Olympic games 3 × 0 × 0 ×
Olympic games gold Melbourne 1956 400 m hurdles gold Rome 1960 400 m hurdles gold Rome 1960 4 × 400 m

Glenn "Ashby Jeep" Davis (born September 12, 1934 in Wellsburg , West Virginia , † January 28, 2009 in Barberton , Ohio ) was an American track and field athlete and 400 meter hurdler . He won three Olympic gold medals in 1956 and 1960.

Career

Davis set a world record over 400 meter hurdles with 49.5 seconds at the US Trials in Los Angeles on June 29, 1956 , making him the first runner to stay below the magical 50-second limit.

He won the three Olympic gold medals in Melbourne (November 24) over the hurdles in 50.1 s in 1956 , in Rome (September 2) over the same distance in 49.3 s in 1960 and as a member of the victorious USA relay over 4 -time 400 meters (September 8th), which ran a world record with 3: 02.2 minutes in the line-up of Jack Yerman , Earl Young , Davis and Otis Davis (before the German season, which with Hans-Joachim Reske , Manfred Kinder , Johannes Kaiser and Carl Kaufmann just behind set a European record with 3: 02.7 min).

Davis was also an excellent 400-meter runner who stayed below the 46-second mark several times on a 1958 European tour. His best time over this distance was 45.7 s over 440 yards (402.67 m), which corresponded to a transit time of 45.4 seconds for 400 meters. This took Davis a place in the top ten in this discipline.

He was 1.83 m tall and weighed 77 kg at competition times.

Davis was a wide receiver in 1960 and 1961 in the team of the Detroit Lions , a team of the National Football League (NFL).

In 2014 he was inducted into the IAAF Hall of Fame .

Web links

• Glenn Davis in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Glenn Davis, 74: Olympic Champion, Coach and Teacher , obituary by Matt Schudel in the Washington Post , January 31, 2009
• Davis football stats