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Josh Davis (swimmer)

Josh Davis giving autographs, c. 2005
Personal information
Full nameJoshua Clark Davis
Nicknames"Josh"
NationalityUnited States
StrokesFreestyle
College teamUniversity of Texas
Birth dateSeptember 1, 1972(age 37)
Birth placeSan Antonio, Texas
Height1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)

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Joshua ("Josh") Clark Davis (born September 1, 1972 in San Antonio, Texas) is a former freestyle swimmer from the United States who was team captain in 2000, he won five medals as a member of US Men's Relay Teams: three golds at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, and two silvers four years later at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. He missed the 2004 Olympic team.

Davis was born on the same day Mark Spitz was making Olympic history while winning one of his seven gold medals in world record time at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. After becoming the fastest swimmer ever out of San Antonio at Winston Churchill High School, Davis accepted a scholarship to attend the University of Texas. Davis currently resides in San Antonio where he runs a motivational speaking and swim clinic business. He was inducted into the San Antonio Sports Hall of Fame on February 15, 2008.

In February 2009 four of Davis' Olympic medals-three gold medals and one silver medal-were stolen from his car after he returned from a swim clinic in St. Louis. He is offering a reward for their return.

On Friday February 13, 2009 cleanup crews in San Antonio outside one of the Salvation Army's Boys and Girls Clubs found the medals. The medals, three gold medals from the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta and a silver from the 2000 Sydney Games, were returned to Davis at a news conference later that night.



Davis and wife Shantel have five children.

Completed in 2001, the natatorium at Northeast Independent School District's Virgil T. Blossom Athletic Center (the district where Davis attended school) in San Antonio was named in his honor.


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Medal Record
Men’s swimming
Competitor for the United States
Olympic Games
Gold1996 Atlanta4x100 m freestyle
Gold1996 Atlanta4x200 m freestyle
Gold1996 Atlanta4x100 m medley
Silver2000 Sydney4x100 m freestyle
Silver2000 Sydney4x200 m freestyle
World Championships (SC)
Gold2000 Athens4x200 m freestyle
Silver2000 Athens4x100 m freestyle
Pan American Games
Gold1995 Mar del Plata4x100 m freestyle
Gold1995 Mar del Plata4x200 m freestyle
Bronze1995 Mar del Plata200 m freestyle
Pan Pacific Championships
Gold1993 Kobe200 m freestyle
Gold1993 Kobe4x200 m freestyle
Gold1997 Fukuoka4x200 m freestyle
Silver1997 Fukuoka200 m freestyle
Silver1999 Sydney4x100 m freestyle
Silver1999 Sydney4x200m freestyle
Summer Universiade
Gold1991 Sheffield4x100 m freestyle
Gold1995 Fukuoka400 m freestyle
Gold1995 Fukuoka4x100 m freestyle
Gold1995 Fukuoka4x200 m freestyle
Gold1995 Fukuoka4x100 m medley
Bronze1995 Fukuoka100 m freestyle

1996 USA Olympic Swimming Team

Men's Team
Ryan Berube * Brad Bridgewater * Carlton Bruner * Greg Burgess * Ray Carey * Josh Davis * Tom Dolan * David Fox * Kurt Grote * Gary Hall, Jr. * John Hargis * Mark Henderson * Joe Hudepohl * Jeremy Linn * Tom Malchow * Eric Namesnik * Jon Olsen * John Piersma * Jeff Rouse * Brad Schumacher * Tripp Schwenk * Scott Tucker * Peter Wright * Eric Wunderlich
Women's Team
Amanda Beard * Brooke Bennett * Beth Botsford * Janet Evans * Catherine Fox * Whitney Hedgepeth * Trina Jackson * Lisa Jacob * Angel Martino * Whitney Metzler * Kristine Quance * Annette Salmeen * Jilen Siroky * Sheila Taormina * Cristina Teuscher * Jenny Thompson * Melanie Valerio * Amy Van Dyken * Allison Wagner * Ashley Whitney
Coaches
Skip Kenney * David Marsh * Richard Quick * Eddie Reese * Mark Schubert * Jonty Skinner * Murray Stephens * Gregg Troy * Jon Urbanchek

2000 USA Olympic Swimming Team

Men's Team
Pat Calhoun * Chad Carvin * Ian Crocker * Josh Davis * Tom Dolan * Nate Dusing * Anthony Ervin * Scott Goldblatt * Gary Hall, Jr. * Tommy Hannan * Klete Keller * Lenny Krayzelburg * Jason Lezak * Tom Malchow * Ed Moses * Aaron Peirsol * Michael Phelps * Jamie Rauch * Kyle Salyards * Chris Thompson * Scott Tucker * Erik Vendt * Neil Walker * Tom Wilkens
Women's Team
Amanda Adkins * Samantha Arsenault * Amanda Beard * B.J. Bedford * Lindsay Benko * Brooke Bennett * Kim Black * Maddy Crippen * Misty Hyman * Kristy Kowal * Diana Munz * Rada Owen * Erin Phenix * Megan Quann * Gabrielle Rose * Kaitlin Sandeno * Courtney Shealy * Staciana Stitts * Julia Stowers * Ashley Tappin * Cristina Teuscher * Jenny Thompson * Dara Torres * Amy Van Dyken
Coaches
Peter Banks * Jack Bauerle * David Marsh * Richard Quick (Women's Head Coach) * Eddie Reese * Dave Salo * Mark Schubert (Men's Head Coach) * Jon Urbanchek

Olympic Champions in Men's 4×100 m Freestyle Relay

1964: USA (Clark, Austin, Ilman, Schollander) * 1968: USA (Zorn, Rerych, Spitz, Walsh) * 1972: USA (Edgar, Murphy, Heidenreich, Spitz) * 1984: USA (Cavanaugh, Heath, Biondi, Gaines) * 1988: USA (Jacobs, Dalbey, Jager, Biondi) * 1992: USA (Hudepohl, Biondi, Jager, Olsen) * 1996: USA (Olsen, Davis, Schumacher, Hall, Jr.) * 2000: Australia (Klim, Fydler, Callus, Thorpe) * 2004: South Africa (Schoeman, Ferns, Townsend, Neethling) * 2008: USA (Phelps, Weber-Gale, Jones, Lezak)

Olympic Champions in Men's 4×200 m Freestyle Relay

1908: Great Britain (Derbyshire, Radimilovic, Foster, Taylor) * 1912: Australasia (Healy, Champion, Boardman, Hardwick) * 1920: USA (McGillivray, Kealoha, Ross, Kahanamoku) * 1924: USA (Weissmuller, O'Connor, Glancy, Breyer) * 1928: USA (Weissmuller, Clapp, Laufer, Kojac) * 1932: Japan (Yusa, Miyazaki, Yokoyama, Toyoda) * 1936: Japan (Yusa, Sugiura, Arai, Taguchi) * 1948: USA (Ris, McLane, Wolf, Smith) * 1952: USA (Moore, Woolsey, Konno, McLane) * 1956: Australia (O'Halloran, Devitt, Rose, Henricks) * 1960: USA (Harrison, Blick, Troy, Farrell) * 1964: USA (Schollander, Clark, Saari, Ilman) * 1968: USA (Schollander, Spitz, Nelson, Rerych) * 1972: USA (Spitz, Kinsella, Tyler, Genter) * 1976: USA (Bruner, Furniss, Naber, Montgomery) * 1980: Soviet Union (Kopliakov, Salnikov, Stukolkin, Krylov) * 1984: USA (Heath, Larson, Float, Hayes) * 1988: USA (Dalbey, Cetlinski, Gjertsen, Biondi) * 1992: Unified Team (Lepikov, Pyshnenko, Tayanovich, Sadovyi) * 1996: USA (Davis, Hudepohl, Schumacher, Berube) * 2000: Australia (Thorpe, Klim, Pearson, Kirby) * 2004: USA (Phelps, Lochte, Vanderkaay, Keller) * 2008: USA (Phelps, Lochte, Berens, Vanderkaay)

World Short Course Champions in Men's 4×200 m Freestyle Relay

1993: Sweden (Wallin, Werner, Frölander, Holmertz) * 1995: Australia (Klim, Dunn, Allen, Kowalski) * 1997: Australia (Klim, Hackett, Kirby, Dunn) * 1999: Netherlands (Van den Hoogenband, Kenkhuis, Zuijdweg, Wouda) * 2000: United States (Davis, Walker, Tucker, Carvin) * 2002: Australia (Pearson, Hass, Dunne, Hackett) * 2004: United States (Lochte, Carvin, Ketchum, Mortimer) * 2006: Italy (Rosolino, Pelliciari, Cassio, Magnini) * 2008: Australia (Palmer, Brits, Sprenger, Monk) *

Pan American Champions in Men's 400 m Freestyle

1951: Tetsuo Okamoto * 1955: James McLane * 1959: George Breen * 1963: Roy Saari * 1967: Greg Charlton * 1971: James McConica * 1975: Douglas Northway * 1979: Brian Goodell * 1983: Bruce Hayes * 1987: Paul Robinson * 1991: Sean Killion * 1995: Josh Davis * 1999: Luiz Lima * 2003: Ricardo Monasterio * 2007: Matt Patton

Pan American Champions in Men's 4×100 m Freestyle Relay

1967: United States (Walsh, Fitzmaurice, Spitz, Schollander) * 1971: United States (Edgar, Genter, Heidenreich, Heckl) * 1975: United States (Babashoff, Ruby, Grattan, Abbott) * 1979: United States (Gaines, Babashoff, Newton, McCagg) * 1983: United States (Leamy, Gribble, Cavanaugh, Gaines) * 1987: United States (Born, McCadam, Robinson, Dudley) * 1991: Brazil (Ferreira, Nascimento, Rebolal, Borges) * 1995: United States (Hall, Jager, Davis, Olsen) * 1999: Brazil (Scherer, Quintaes, Cordeiro, Borges) * 2003: Brazil (Jayme, Borges, Scherer, Souza) * 2007: Brazil (Silva, Deboni, Oliveira, Cielo)

Pan American Champions in Men's 4×200 m Freestyle Relay

1951: United States (Gora, Jones, Cleveland, Heusner) * 1955: United States (Smith, Yorzyk, Moore, McLane) * 1959: United States (Blick, Sintz, Rounsavelle, Winters) * 1963: United States (Ilman, McDonough, Lyons, Townsend) * 1967: United States (Schollander, Hickcox, Charlton, Spitz) * 1971: United States (Heidenreich, McConica, Genter, Heckl) * 1975: United States (DeMont, Favero, Horner, Curington) * 1979: United States (Goodell, Larson, Kirshner, Gaines) * 1983: United States (Larson, Saeger, Hayes, Gaines) * 1987: United States (Robinson, Jones, O'Brien, Witchell) * 1991: United States (Keppeler, Wells, Tippins, Diehl) * 1995: United States (Olsen, Davis, Berube, Burgess) * 1999: United States (Messner, Phillips, Howard, Tucker) * 2003: United States (Lochte, Goldberg, Lee, Ketchum) * 2007: Brazil (Pereira, Castro, Salatta, Oliveira)

Pan Pacific Champions in Men's 200 m Freestyle

1985: Michael Heath (USA) * 1987: Craig Oppel (USA) * 1989: Doug Gjertsen (USA) * 1991: Ian Brown (AUS) * 1993: Josh Davis (USA) * 1995: Danyon Loader (NZL) * 1997: Michael Klim (AUS) * 1999: Ian Thorpe (AUS) * 2002: Ian Thorpe (AUS) * 2006: Klete Keller (USA)

Pan Pacific Champions in Men's 4×200 m Freestyle Relay

1985: USA (Heath, Biondi, Dillon, Oppel) * 1987: USA (Dalbey, Biondi, Cetlinski, Oppel) * 1989: USA (Stewart, Jorgensen, Olsen, Gjertsen) * 1991: USA (Dalbey, Jorgensen, Hudepohl, Olsen) * 1993: USA (Burgess, Eckerman, Taner, Davis) * 1995: AUS (Allen, Housman, Dunn, Kowalski) * 1997: USA (Carvin, Malchow, Taner, Davis) * 1999: AUS (Thorpe, Kirby, Hackett, Klim) * 2002: AUS (Hackett, Stevens, Cram, Thorpe) * 2006: USA (Phelps, Lochte, Vanderkaay, Keller)

Summer Universiade Champions in Men's 400 m Freestyle

1959: Igor Lushkovskiy (URS) * 1961: Tatsuo Fujimoto (JPN) * 1963: Haruo Yoshimuto (JPN) * 1965: Semyon Belitz-Geyman (URS) * 1967: Greg Charlton (USA) * 1970: Andy Strenk (USA) * 1973: Jack Tingley (USA) * 1977: Richard Hannula (USA) * 1979: Sergey Rusin (URS) * 1981: Daniel Machek (TCH) * 1983: Vladimir Salnikov (URS) * 1985: Justin Lemberg (AUS) * 1987: Andrey Patrakov (URS) * 1991: Artur Wojdat (POL) * 1993: Turlough O'Hare (CAN) * 1995: Josh Davis (USA) * 1997: Luiz Lima (BRA) * 1999: Mark Warkentin (USA) * 2001: Igor Snitko (UKR) * 2003 - 2005: Yury Prilukov (RUS) * 2007: Dragoş Coman (ROM) * 2009: Przemysław Stańczyk (POL)

Summer Universiade Champions in Men's 4×100 m Freestyle Relay

1959: Great Britain: Unknown * 1961: Japan: Unknown * 1963: Japan: Unknown * 1965: USA: (Roth, Saari, Dilley, Ilman) * 1967: USA: (Walsh, Havens, Charlton, Zorn) * 1970: USA: (Havens, McConica, O'Mallay, Heckl) * 1973: USA: (Elliot, Tietre, Anderson, Knox) * 1977: USA: (Coan, Lambert, Curington, Ebuna) * 1979: Not Held * 1981: USA: (Spencer, Schmidt, Goodridge, Kirschner) * 1983: Soviet Union: * 1985: USA: (McCadam, Born, Oppel, Biondi) * 1987: USA: (Hansen, Kerska, Williams, Thomas) * 1991: USA: (Anderson, Davis, Hansen, Towne) * 1993: USA: (Kurza, Pepper, Picotte, Fox) * 1995: USA: (Schumacher, Tucker, Gumbril, Davis) * 1997: USA: (Newman, Esway, Lezak, Jones) * 1999: Australia: (Goudie, Upton, Wyllie, Pine) * 2001: Great Britain: (Kidd, Scotcher, Cozens, Belk) * 2003: Great Britain: (Cozens, Scotcher, Davenport, Kidd) * 2005: France: (Galavtine, Bodet, Madelaine, Bernard) * 2007: USA: (McGinnis, Grevers, Lundquist, Ritter) * 2009: USA: (Copeland, Brady, Mcginnis, Robison)

Summer Universiade Champions in Men's 4×200 m Freestyle Relay

1959: Italy: Unknown * 1961: Not Held * 1963: Not Held * 1965: USA: (Roth, Saari, Roth, Ilman) * 1967: USA: (Charlton, Nelson, Hickcox, Robie) * 1970: USA: (Strenk, O'Mallay, McConica, Heckl) * 1973: Soviet Union: Unknown * 1977: USA: (Weston, Curington, Ebuna, Hannula) * 1979: USA: (Sharpe, Dickson, O'Brien, Hillencamp) * 1981: Soviet Union: Unknown * 1983: Soviet Union: Unknown * 1985: USA: (Oppel, Siroky, Dillon, Biondi) * 1987: USA: (Parker, Lang, Hodge, Olsen) * 1991: Soviet Union: Unknown * 1993: USA: (Keppeler, Phillips, Van Tassell, Berube) * 1995: USA: (Davis, Kanner, Rumley, Schumacher) * 1997: USA: (Eckerman, Goldblatt, Rauch, Schryver) * 1999: USA: (Godsman, Hartzel, Leonard, Warkentin) * 2001: Italy: (Beccari, Selleri, Pelliciari, Cappellazzo) * 2003: Russia: (Kapralov, Kuznetsov, Chernyshev, Prilukov) * 2005: Italy: (Frovi, Calvi, Pasteris, Cassio) * 2007: USA: (McGinnis, Ritter, Van Wie, Klueh) * 2009: Japan: (Uchida, Hihara, Kuzuhara, Mononobe)

Summer Universiade Champions in Men's 4×100 m Medley Relay

1959: Italy: Unknown * 1961: Japan: Unknown * 1963: Hungary: Unknown * 1965: USA: (Mann, Tretheway, Riker, Roth) * 1967: USA: (Hickcox, Merten, Russell, Walsh) * 1970: USA: (Ivey, Shilling, Ferris, Heckl) * 1973: USA: (Johnson, Chatfield, Poucher, Knox) * 1977: USA: (Ballard, Michaelis, Curington, Ebuna) * 1979: USA: (Manganiello, Lundberg, Bottom, Peppas) * 1981: Soviet Union: Unknown * 1983: Soviet Union: Unknown * 1985: USA: (Rhodenbaugh, Moffet, O'Neil, McCadam) * 1987: USA: (Berkoff, Torres, Mortenson, Hansen) * 1991: USA: (Hansen, Kutler, Pajer, Schwenk) * 1993: USA: (Schwenk, Crawford, Pepper, Fox) * 1995: USA: (Jachimowski, Engstrom-Heg, Lancaster, Davis) * 1997: USA: (Brewer, Kling, Martyak, Jones) * 1999: USA: (Ulrickson, McDonnell, Pierce, Busse) * 2001: USA: (Marshall, Denniston, Haidinyak, VonSchoff) * 2003: Ukraine: (Nikolaychuk, Lisogor, Serdinov, Yegoshin) * 2005: Ukraine: (Bugayov, Lisogor, Advena, Syzonenko) * 2007: Russia: (Smirnov, Falko, Korotyshkin, Grechin) * 2009: Japan: (R Irie, Sakimoto, S Irie, Harada)



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