Roles | Competed in Olympic Games • Other |
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Sex | Male |
Full name | Wilbur D. "Willie"•Davenport |
Used name | Willie•Davenport |
Born | 8 June 1943 in Troy, Alabama (USA) |
Died | 17 June 2002 in Chicago, Illinois (USA) |
Measurements | 186 cm / 84 kg |
Affiliations | Baton Rouge Track Club, Baton Rouge (USA) |
NOC | United States |
Medals | OG |
Gold | 1 |
Silver | 0 |
Bronze | 1 |
Total | 2 |
Willie Davenport, a 19-year-old army private, caused one of the sensations of the 1964 Final Trials when he won the high hurdles, finishing ahead of Hayes Jones and Blaine Lindgren. In Tokyo he sustained a thigh injury and was eliminated in the semi-finals, but four years later, in Mexico City, Davenport took the gold medal. He also finished fourth in 1972 and third in 1976. At the 1967 Pan American Games he finished second. After the 1964 Games he enrolled at Southern University and won the AAU outdoor title outright in 1965, 1966, and 1967, and tied for first place in 1969. In 1980 he competed in the 4-man bobsled in the 1980 Winter Olympics, becoming only the fourth American to compete in both sets of Games. Davenport was later employed by the city of Baton Rouge and also served as an athlete’s representative to the U.S. Olympic Committee.
Personal Bests: 100y – 9.5 (1968); 100 – 10.3 (1969); 110H – 13.33 (1968).
Games | Discipline (Sport) / Event | NOC / Team | Pos | Medal | As | |
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1964 Summer Olympics | Athletics | USA | Willie Davenport | |||
110 metres Hurdles, Men (Olympic) | 7 h1 r2/3 | |||||
1968 Summer Olympics | Athletics | USA | Willie Davenport | |||
110 metres Hurdles, Men (Olympic) | 1 | Gold | ||||
1972 Summer Olympics | Athletics | USA | Willie Davenport | |||
110 metres Hurdles, Men (Olympic) | 4 | |||||
1976 Summer Olympics | Athletics | USA | Willie Davenport | |||
110 metres Hurdles, Men (Olympic) | 3 | Bronze | ||||
1980 Winter Olympics | Bobsleigh (Bobsleigh) | USA | Willie Davenport | |||
Four, Men (Olympic) | United States 1 | 12 |
Games | Role | NOC | As | |
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1976 Summer Olympics | Flagbearer at the Closing Ceremony | USA | Willie Davenport |