Jack Davis (hurdler)
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Jack Wells Davis (September 11, 1930 – July 20, 2012)<ref name=death>Former Trojan Olympic Hurdler Davis Passes Away Template:Webarchive, USC Trojans Athletic Department, Accessed July 24, 2012.</ref> was an American track and field hurdler, silver medalist in the 1952 and 1956 Olympics over 110-meter hurdles. Davis lost to Harrison Dillard in 1952 with the same time as the winner, and lost to Lee Calhoun in 1956, again with the same time as the winner. He set a new world record 13.4 in a heat at the AAU in 1956.
Davis attended Herbert Hoover High School in Glendale, California, where he won both hurdle races at the 1949 CIF California State Meet, along with a third in the long jump.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> After that performance, he was named "Athlete of the Meet."<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> He then went to the University of Southern California.<ref name=USColympians>USC OLYMPIANS: 1904–2008 Template:Webarchive, USC Trojans Athletic Department, Accessed August 26, 2008.</ref> At USC he was a three-time NCAA 120y hurdle champion and the 1953 NCAA 220y hurdle champion. He was a three-time U.S. Outdoor 220y hurdles champion, and ranked #1 on three occasions. In 2004, he was inducted into the USA Track & Field Hall of Fame,<ref name=USTrackHOF>Jack Davis Template:Webarchive, USA Track & Field, Accessed August 27, 2008.</ref> and the USC Hall of Fame.
Davis served in the U.S. Navy in 1954–57, and then became a real estate developer. He helped found the United States Olympic Training Center in Chula Vista, California.<ref name=sr/><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
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- 1930 births
- 2012 deaths
- American men hurdlers
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1952 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1956 Summer Olympics
- USC Trojans men's track and field athletes
- Sportspeople from Glendale, California
- Track and field athletes from Los Angeles County, California
- Medalists at the 1956 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1952 Summer Olympics
- Olympic silver medalists for the United States in track and field
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1955 Pan American Games
- Medalists at the 1955 Pan American Games
- Pan American Games gold medalists for the United States in athletics (track and field)
- NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships winners
- 20th-century American sportsmen