Shani Davis

	Shani Davis
Full name	Shani Earl Davis
nation	United States
birthday	August 13, 1982
place of birth	Chicago , Illinois
size	188 cm
Weight	84 kg
Career
status	active
Medal table
winter Olympics
All around world championships
Sprint World Championships
Individual distance world championships
	Placements in the speed skating world cup
Debut in the World Cup	2005/06
World Cup victories	61
Total toilet 1000	1. ( 2005/06 , 2007/08 , 2008/09 , ; 2009/10 , 2011/12 )
Total toilet 1500	1. ( 2007/08 , 2008/09 , 2009/10 , ; 2010/11 )
	last change: February 14, 2015

Shani Earl Davis (born August 13, 1982 in Chicago , Illinois ) is an American speed skater .

Career

Davis mastered roller skating at the age of three and began speed skating at the age of six . He ran both on the long tracks and on the short track . In 1999 he made it into the US national teams of both sports. In 2000 he first took part in the Junior World Championships in speed skating and was a participant in the 2002 Olympic Games in Salt Lake City .

Davis experienced his breakthrough in 2004 when he became world champion over 1500 meters at the individual distance world championship in Seoul and won the silver medal at the all- around world championship in Hamar . In 2005 Davis set world records over 1500 meters and 1000 meters and became world champion in all- around for the first time in Moscow . He defended that title in 2006 in Calgary .

At the Olympic Winter Games in Turin in 2006 , Davis was Olympic champion over 1000 meters. This made him the first black Olympic champion in an individual sport at the Winter Games. On his world record course of 1500 meters, Davis won silver behind the Italian surprise Olympic champion Enrico Fabris . The individual distance world championship in Salt Lake City completed Davis 2007 with gold medals in the 1000 meters and 1500 meters. In 2008 in Nagano, he won another title over 1000 meters. In 2009 he won the 1500 meters in Vancouver .

In 2009 Davis won the title at the Sprint World Championship in Moscow . After Eric Heiden , Davis became the first man who could win both the title at the all- around world championships and the sprint world championships. For his success in 2009 he was awarded the Oscar Mathisen Memorial Trophy . At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver , Davis repeated his results from the previous Olympic Games. He won gold over 1000 meters and silver over 1500 meters, this time behind Dutchman Mark Tuitert . At the individual distance world championship in 2011 in Inzell , the American ran for gold over 1000 meters and in a team and thus won his sixth individual title at the individual distance world championships and his seventh overall.

Davis won 60 world cup races and ran a total of seven world records over his specialty courses 1000 meters and 1500 meters. With his times of 1: 06.42 over 1000 meters and 1: 41.04 over 1500 meters, he is the current world record holder over these distances. At the 2006 World Cup in Calgary, he set the world record in four-way combat, which is still valid today, with 145.742 points. Davis' high on the nobility calendar is 144.806 points, which is how he led him until March 2019.

Personal bests

route	time	date	place
500 m	34.78 sec	March 6, 2009	Salt Lake City
1000 m	1: 06.42 min-1	March 7, 2009	Salt Lake City
1500 m	1: 41.04 min-1	December 11, 2009	Salt Lake City
3000 m	3: 46.25 min	October 6, 2012	Salt Lake City
5000 m	6: 10.49 min	March 18, 2006	Calgary
10,000 m	13: 05.94 min	March 19, 2006	Calgary

¹ = world record

Shani Davis 2008 in Berlin

Web links

Statistics at speed skating news
Shani Davis in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Official website of Shani Davis
Photos by Shani Davis at DESGphoto

personal data
SURNAME	Davis, Shani
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Davis, Shani Earl (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American speed skater
DATE OF BIRTH	August 13, 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH	Chicago , Illinois