Walter Davis (athlete)

Walter Davis ( born July 2, 1979 in Lafayette, Louisiana) is an American track and field athlete, world champion (2005) in the triple jump and was also a good long jumper is.

At the Olympic Games in Sydney in 2000 Walter Davis took first took part in an international climax part. Here he was with a width of 16.61 m eleventh. He had qualified for the U.S. Olympic Trials for the long jump as a third party, however, occurred only in the triple jump in Sydney. A year later at the 2001 World Championships in Edmonton, he was with 17,20 m already fifth in the triple jump competition.

In 2002 he became the first American champion in the triple jump with a distance of 17.59 m, a year later he was also American champion in the long jump with 8.24 meters. At the World Championships in Paris in 2003, he joined then for the first time at an international competition in two competitions at which, however, had more negative impact on his performance. In the long jump he was with 8.02 m in seventh in the triple jump he could not reach the final with 16,60 m.

In 2004, he made this mistake again and began, after he had finished the triple jump U.S. Trials with an excellent length of 17.63 m in second. During the Olympic Games in Athens again in two competitions The triple jump competition he finished with 16.78 m in eleventh and in the long jump, he reached the final with 7.80 m not.

He was again American triple jump champion and fourth at the Wide Springers 2005. At the World Championships in Helsinki in 2005 so he just took off with the three jumpers and finished with 17.57 m world champion. It benefited from the fact that Olympic champion Christian Olsson was missing injured from Sweden and Marian Oprea was unable to repeat his Weltjahresbestleistung of 17.81 m from Romania and won the bronze medal.

In 2007 he was. At the World Championships in Osaka in 2007 with 17.33 meters of third parties

Walter Davis is a competition weight of 83 kg at a height of 1.88 m.

Personal bests (as of July 2007)

Long Jump - 8.36 m ( 2007)
Triple Jump - 17.71 m ( 2006)

List of world champions in athletics

World Champion ( athletics)
Long jumper (United States)
Triple jumper (United States)
Americans
Born in 1979
Man

Lafayette (Louisiana) 2005 World Championships in Athletics 2001 World Championships in Athletics 2007 World Championships in Athletics Mike Conley, Sr. Christian Taylor (athlete)

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