WALTER DAVIS
Events: Triple Jump, Long Jump
Height: 6-2
Weight: 185
PRs:  LJ - 8.24m/27-0.5 (2003 & 2007); TJ - 17.73m/58-2 (2006)
Born: July 2, 1979, in Lafayette, La.
Current Residence: Baton Rouge, La.
High School: Beau Chene ‘97 (Arnaudville, La.)
Colleges: Barton County Community College ‘00; LSU ‘02
Coach: Todd Lane
Agent: Kevin Brown
Club: Nike 

Career Highlights: 2005 World Outdoor TJ champion; 2006 World Indoor TJ champion; 2003 World Indoor TJ silver medalist; 2007 World Outdoor bronze medalist; three-time USA Outdoor TJ champ (’02, ’05, ‘06); 2003 USA Outdoor LJ champ; 2-time USA Indoor TJ champ (’05, ’06); two-time NCAA Indoor TJ champion (’01, ’02); 2002 NCAA Outdoor LJ champ; six-time national junior college champion

Davis’s career has shown he is one of the world’s best ever combination triple/long jumpers.  His best long jump leap at the 2007 USA Outdoor Championships of 8.24 meters/27-0.50 equaled his personal best set, in 2003. Davis faced quite a challenge on his way to the gold medal at the 2006 World Indoor Championships. He believed he scored well on his first attempt in the final and was surprised to learn that it had only been recorded as a leap of 17.42m/57-2. Davis questioned the result and during the third round the score was changed to the winning distance of 17.73m/58-2, which remains his career best effort. On his first and winning jump being changed during the third round: "They put 17.30m on the first one because they saw a mark they forgot to erase from earlier," he said. "One guy measured from the actual mark for me and they told me they checked it on television and switched it to make it right." In addition to his indoor success in 2006, Davis won the USA Outdoor Championships with the farthest triple jump in the world that outdoor season of 17.71m/58-1. A national champion in both horizontal jumps, Davis didn’t start out in track & field. He was an all-state basketball player who decided to try track his junior year of high school…the first U.S. Olympian from Barton County Community College in any sport…Davis made the 2000 Olympic roster in both the LJ & TJ but opted to compete only in the TJ at Sydney…native of Leonville, Louisiana…Davis posted five of the top six triple jumps by Americans in 2002…LSU’s men’s team visited the White House after winning the 2002 NCAA Outdoor crown. Davis presented President Bush with an LSU warm-up.

2009: Runner-up at USA Outdoors (16.84m/55-3)...
2008: 4th at Olympic Trials (17.20m/56-05.25)…ranked #4 in U.S. by T&FN…best of 17.20/56-5.25.
2007: 4th at Olympic Trials in triple jump (17.20m/56-05.25)...3rd at World Outdoors (17.33m/56-10.25)...4^th in LJ at US Outdoor Championships (8.24m/27-0.5)…5^th in LJ at Nike Prefontaine Classic (7.76m/25-5.5)…6^th in TJ at Oslo (17.00m/55-9.25)…2^nd in TJ at Baie Mahault (17.01m/55-9.75)
2006: USA Outdoor TJ Champion (17.71m/58-1.25WL)…World Indoor TJ champion (17.73m/58-2PR)...USA Indoor TJ champion (16.87m/55-4.25)…1^st in TJ at Nike Prefontaine Classic (17.40m/57-1)…5^th in LJ at Paris (8.10m/26-7)...11^th in LJ at Rome (7.65m/25-1.25)…3^rd in TJ at Lausanne (17.40m/57-1)…2^nd in TJ at Stockholm (17.24m/56-6.75)…ranked #2 in world (#1 U.S.) by T&FN…best of 17.73m/58-2
2005: World Outdoor TJ champion (17.57m/57-7.75)…USA Outdoor TJ champion (17.15m/56-3.25)…4th at 2005 USA Outdoor Championships LJ (7.98m/26-2.25)…USA Indoor TJ champ (17.31m/56-9.50)...ranked #4 in world (#1 U.S.) by T&FN...best of 17.57m/57-7.75.
2004: 2nd at Olympic Trials TJ (17.63m/57-10.25PR)… 11th at Olympic Games TJ (16.78m/55-0.75)...12th in Group B LJ qualifying at Olympic Games (7.80m/25-7.25)…4th at Olympic Trials LJ (7.91m/25-11.5)… 1st at Martinique (8.20m/26-11)…ranked #8 world (#2 U.S.) in TJ, #5 U.S in LJ by T&FN…bests of 8.25m/27-1 & 17.63m/57-10.25.
2003: 1st at USA Outdoor LJ (8.24m/27-0.5)…2nd at USA Outdoor TJ (17.55m/57-7)…7th at World Outdoors LJ (8.02m/26-3.75)…8th in qualifying group at World Outdoors TJ (16.60m/54-5.5)…USA Indoor runner-up (17.23m/56-6.5)… 2nd at World Indoors TJ (17.35m/56-11.25)…2nd at Home Depot Invitational Outdoors LJ (8.15m/26-9)…bests of 8.24m/27-0.5PR & 17.55m/57-7…ranked #4 in the world in TJ (#1 U.S.), #9 in the world in LJ (#4 U.S.) by T&FN.
2002: USA Outdoor TJ champion (17.59m/57-8.5PR)…NCAA Outdoor LJ (8.08m/26-6.25) and TJ (17.34m/56-10.75) champion…NCAA indoor triple jump champ (17.23m/56-6.5PR), 2nd in long jump (8.15m/26-9)…1st at Brussels (17.40m/57-1)…1st in Lausanne (17.39m/57-0.75)…1st in Rome (17.33m/56-10.25)…1st at Texas Relays LJ (8.12m/26-7.75)…ranked #3 in the world, #1 in U.S. by T&FN…bests of 8.12m/26-7.75 & 17.59m/57-8.5PR.
2001: 5th at World Outdoors TJ (17.20/56-5.25)…NCAA Indoor (16.89m/55-5) and Outdoor (16.56m/54-4) champion …2nd in LJ at NCAA Indoor (8.01m/26-3.5) and Outdoor (8.19m/26-10.5) … 3rd in TJ (16.92m/55-6.25) & 8th in LJ (8.04m/26-4.5) at USA Outdoors…1st at Tyson Invitational (7.86m/25-9.5)…ranked #8 in the world #1 U.S. in TJ, and #5 U.S. in LJ by T&FN…bests of 8.13m/26-8.25 and 17.22m/56-6 (best by an American).
2000: 11th in Olympic TJ (16.61m/54-6)...3rd in long jump at Olympic Trials (8.11m/26-7.25), and 3rd in triple jump (16.84m/55-3) choosing to compete only in the TJ at the Olympic Games... Won NJCAA outdoor LJ, indoor TJ and LJ … ranked 4th in LJ and 3rd in TJ in U.S. by T&FN...bests of 8.16m/26-9.25 in qualifying at Olympic Trials and 17.07m/56-0 at Baton Rouge on May 19.
1999: NJCAA Outdoor TJ champion (16.47m/54-0.5), 2nd place in LJ (7.70m/25-3.25)... Indoor NJCAA champion (7.88m/25-10.25) LJ and (16.08m/52-9.25) TJ.
1998: Best of 50-2 (windy).
1997: 3rd at National Scholastics...bests of 23-9 and 51-9.25.

6/23/09