Jerome Davis | |
Nationality: | United States |
Birth Date: | 22 August 1977 |
Birth Place: | Ridgecrest, California |
Height: | 6feet |
Weight: | 1780NaN0 |
Sport: | Track and field |
Event: | 200 metres, 400 metres |
Collegeteam: | USC Trojans |
Coach: | John Henry Johnson |
Pb: | 200 m: 20.51 (Westwood, Los Angeles, California 1998) 400 m: 44.51 (Sevilla 1999) |
Show-Medals: | yes |
Jerome Davis (born August 22, 1977) is an American former sprinter.[1] He attended college at the University of Southern California, and was the Pacific-10 Conference champion in the men's 400m dash four consecutive years from 1996 through 1999.[2] As a sophomore, Davis finished third at the 1997 NCAA men's Outdoor Track & Field Championships with a time of 45.36[3] In 1998, he won the NCAA Men's Outdoor Track & Field National Championship in the 400m event with a time of 45.18. Despite improving his time in the NCAA championships the following year, Davis finished third again, being edged out by LSU's Derrick Brew by 2 one-hundredths of a second for second place. At the 1999 World University Games, Davis took gold, with a time of 44.91. He was on the gold medal-winning USA men's 400m World Championship relay team in 1999. The victory was vacated in 2008 when a teammate confessed to using performance-enhancing drugs during that time.[4]