Shani davis biography
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Davis was born in Chicago, Illinois, on August 13, He learned to roller-skate at age two and switched to ice skating at age six, a few months before his.Shani Davis
American speed skater
Shani Earl Davis (; born August 13, 1982) is an American former speed skater.[1]
At the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy, Davis became the first African American athlete to win a gold medal in an individual event at the Olympic Winter Games, winning the speedskating 1000 meter event.
He also won a silver medal in the 1500 meter event. At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, he repeated the feat, becoming the first man to successfully defend the 1000 meters and repeating as the 1500 meter silver medalist.
Davis won the silver medal at the 2004 World Allround Speed Skating Championships.
Davis became the first African American athlete to win a gold medal in an individual event at the Olympic Winter Games, winning the speedskating meter.
He then proceeded to win the World Allround Championships in both 2005 and 2006. In 2009, he won the World Sprint Championships in Moscow, the site of his first World Allround Championship victory. When Davis won those events, he became the second male skater to win both the Sprint and Allround in his career, after Er
