NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Walter "Buddy" Davis

Walter Francis "Buddy" Davis (Born January 5, 1931) is an Olympic gold medalist in the high jump, from the United States of America. Subject: The Olympic Rings. ... The Games of the XV Olympiad were held in 1952 in Helsinki, Finland. ... January 5 is the 5th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1931 (MCMXXXI) is a common year starting on Thursday. ... For months before the Olympic Games, runners relay the Olympic Flame from Olympia to the opening ceremony. ... Gold Medal is an album by American band The Donnas, released in 2004. ... Gold medal winner Ethel Catherwood of Canada scissors over the bar at the 1928 Summer Olympics. ...

Despite contracting polio at age 9, Davis had a standout athletic career at Texas A&M University and later won Olympic gold in the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, with a leap of 2.04m (6' 8 1/4"). Poliomyelitis (polio), or infantile paralysis, is a viral paralytic disease. ... Texas A&M University, often Texas A&M, A&M or TAMU for short, is the flagship institution of the Texas A&M University System. ... The Games of the XV Olympiad were held in 1952 in Helsinki, Finland. ... Province Southern Finland Region Uusimaa Sub-region Helsinki City manager Jussi Pajunen Official languages Finnish, Swedish Area - total - land ranked 342nd 185. ...

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Categories: Track and field athletics biography stubs | 1931 births | High jumpers | Athletes at the 1952 Summer Olympics These are the male Olympic medalists in athletics. ... Ellery Harding Clark (born March 13, 1874 in East Roxbury, Massachusetts; died February 17, 1949) was an American athlete. ... Irving Baxter was an American athlete who won the gold medal in both the mens high jump and the pole vault at the 1900 Summer Olympics, in Paris, France. ... Harry Porter was a high jumper from the United States of America who won gold in the 1908 Summer Olympics at a mark of 63. He attended Cornell University. ... Alma Richards was the first resident of Utah to win a gold medal in the Olympics, in 1912, in the running high jump event. ... Harold Marion Osborn (April 13, 1899 - April 5, 1975) was a U.S. track athlete. ... Cornelius Cooper Johnson (August 28, 1913 - February 15, 1946) was an African-American athlete in the high jump. ... Charles Everett Dumas (February 12, 1937 _ January 5, 2004) was an American high jumper, the 1956 Olympic champion, and the first person to clear 7 ft. ... Валерий Николаевич Брумель Nickname: Space Jumper Major: Athlete (high jumper) Birth: April 14, 1942, Razvedki village Death: January 26, 2003, Moscow Sex: Male Nation: Russian Achievements: 6 WRs in 1961-1971 Olympic champion in 1964 Valeriy Brumel (April 14, 1942 - January 26, 2003) was a Soviet athlete who broke the... Richard Douglas Dick Fosbury (born March 6, 1947) is an American athlete who revolutionised the high jump using a back-first technique, now known as the Fosbury flop. ... Jacek WszoÅ‚a- polish gold and silver olympic medalist. ... Gennadiy Avdeyenko (born November 4, 1963 in Odessa) is a retired athlete who represented USSR and later Ukraine. ... Javier Sotomayor (born October 13, 1967), 1. ... Sergey Klyugin (born March 24, 1974 in Kineshma) is a Russian high jumper. ... Stefan Holm Stefan Holm (born May 25, 1976 in Forshaga, Sweden) is an athlete competing in high jump. ...