Shani Davis

Shani Earl Davis ( born August 13, 1983 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American speed skater.

Career

Davis dominated the early age of three years, roller skating and began at the age of six years with the speed skating. He ran on the long rides as well as in the short track speed skating. In 1999 he made ​​it to the U.S. national teams of both sports. In 2000, he first participated at the Junior World Championships in speed skating and was in 2002 participants of the Olympic Games in Salt Lake City.

His breakthrough came Davis 2004, when he was world champion over 1500 meters at the World Single Distance Championships in Seoul and in the all-around World Cup in Hamar won the silver medal.

In 2005, Davis put on a world record for the 1,500 meters and 1,000 meters and was world champion in the all around for the first time in Moscow. He defended that title in 2006 in Calgary.

At the Olympic Winter Games 2006 in Turin Davis was Olympic champion in the 1000 meters. He was thus the first black Olympic champion in an individual sport in the Winter Games. On his world record distance of 1500 meters Davis won only silver behind the Italian Enrico Fabris surprise Olympic champion.

The World Single Distance Championships in Salt Lake City joined Davis 2007 with gold medals over 1000 meters and 1500 meters. 2008 in Nagano he won over 1000 meters another title. In 2009 he won in Vancouver about 1500 meters.

In 2009, Davis won in Moscow the title at the Sprint World Championship. After Eric Heiden Davis was becoming the first man who could win both the title at the World Championships all-around as well as the Sprint World Championships. For his achievements in 2009, we awarded him the Oscar Mathisen Memorial Trophy.

At the Olympic Winter Games Vancouver 2010 Davis repeated his results the last Olympic Games. He won the gold medal over 1000 meters and 1500 meters silver, this time behind the Dutchman Mark Tuitert.

In the World Single Distance Championships 2011 in Inzell the Americans ran to gold over 1000 meters and the team and overtook his sixth individual title at the World Single Distance Championships and his seventh overall.

Davis won 60 World Cup races and ran a total of seven world records on his special routes 1000 meters and 1500 meters. With his time of 1:06,42 1:41,04 over 1000 meters and more than 1500 meters, it is the current world record holder over these distances. In the all-around World Cup 2006 in Calgary, he turned to the still valid today world record in the Big Four battle with 145.742 points.

Davis leads from March 2009 to the Peerage. Its maximum value is 144.806 points.

Personal Best

¹ = world record

Winter Olympic Games World All-Round Speed Skating Championships 2004 World Allround Speed Skating Championships 2005 World Allround Speed Skating Championships 2006 World Allround Speed Skating Championships 2008 World Allround Speed Skating Championships World Sprint Speed Skating Championships 2007 World Sprint Speed Skating Championships 2009 World Sprint Speed Skating Championships 2011 World Sprint Speed Skating Championships 2014 World Sprint Speed Skating Championships 2004 World Single Distance Speed Skating Championships 2007 World Single Distance Speed Skating Championships 2008 World Single Distance Speed Skating Championships 2009 World Single Distance Speed Skating Championships 2011 World Single Distance Speed Skating Championships 2012 World Single Distance Speed Skating Championships 2013 World Single Distance Speed Skating Championships ISU Speed Skating World Cup 2007–08 ISU Speed Skating World Cup 2008–09 ISU Speed Skating World Cup 2009–10 ISU Speed Skating World Cup 2011–12 ISU Speed Skating World Cup 2010–11 ISU Speed Skating World Cup List of Olympic medalists in speed skating Italy Adelskalender (skating) Nikolay Gulyayev Olaf Zinke Dan Jansen Ids Postma Gerard van Velde Stefan Groothuis Jaap Eden Jack McCulloch Sigurd Mathisen Coen de Koning Roald Larsen Bernt Evensen Michael Staksrud Hans Engnestangen Birger Wasenius Lassi Parkkinen Odd Lundberg Hjalmar Andersen Oleg Goncharenko Boris Shilkov Knut Johannesen Henk van der Grift Jonny Nilsson Per Ivar Moe Fred Anton Maier Harm Kuipers Piet Kleine Hilbert van der Duim Hein Vergeer Eric Flaim Leo Visser Johann Olav Koss Roberto Sighel Falko Zandstra Rintje Ritsma Gianni Romme Jochem Uytdehaage Chad Hedrick Sven Kramer Magne Thomassen Hans van Helden Michael Hadschieff
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