波琳-伊莱恩-戴维斯 pauline elaine davis
sydney, 29 september 2000, games of the xxvii olympiad. women's athletics: debbie ferguson (l) and pauline elaine davis of the bahamas get their breath back after winning the 4x100 relay semifinal.
born: 9 july 1966
birthplace: n / a
nationality: bahamas
sport: athletics
attendance at the olympic games
los angeles 1984
seoul 1988
barcelona 1992
atlanta 1996
sydney 2000
awards
olympic medals:
gold: 1
silver: 2
other results:
world championships
gold: 1 (1999)
silver: 1 (1995)
world indoor championships
silver: 1 (1995)
bronze:1 (1999)
the doyenne of bahamian sprinters
pauline davis began practising sport at school. although she already liked running, she also practised as many sports as possible, including softball, field hockey and basketball. at 13, she was spotted by a coach thanks to a video tape. it was then she took her first real steps into athletics.
at her first olympic games in 1984 in los angeles, pauline was the flag-bearer for her country at the opening ceremony. in the 100m, she was eliminated in the semi-final, and she finished in sixth place in the 4x100m relay.
her second and third olympic games, in 1988 in seoul and in 1992 in barcelona, resulted in semi-final places in the 100m and 200m. it was in barcelona that frank rutherford, with whom pauline was at school and who was behind her meeting her coach, won the first olympic medal for the bahamas in the triple jump.
at the 1996 games in atlanta, pauline davis lined up for the 400m. in the semi-final and final, she twice beat the national record. in a very fast race in which olympic, african and oceanic records were beaten, she finished fourth by only 18 hundredths of a second. with her compatriots sevatheda fynes, chandra sturrup and eldece clarke, she won the silver medal in the 4x100m relay behind the us team.
aged 34 in 2000, pauline davis competed in her last olympic games in sydney. however, the sprinter had never run so fast. in the 200m final, she achieved the best time of her career beating susanthika jayasinghe of sri lanka by one hundredth of a second and collecting the silver medal: the first bahaman woman to win an olympic medal in an individual event. world champions since 1999, it was in the 4x100m relay that the bahamians were eagerly awaited. after sevatheda fynes and chandra sturrup, pauline passed on the baton to debbie ferguson, who held off merlene ottey-page and marion jones to win the race and give the bahamas their first gold medal of the olympic games.
with three olympic medals, pauline davis retired at her peak. the woman who was awarded the order of the british empire (obe) in 2004 today gives back to athletics what the sport gave to her by training talented young bahamian sprinters.
生日：1966年7月9日
出生地：巴哈马
国籍: 巴哈马
项目: 田径
参加奥运会时间：
1984年美国洛杉矶夏季奥运会
1988年韩国汉城夏季奥运会
1992年西班牙巴塞罗纳夏季奥运会
1996年美国亚特兰大夏季奥运会
2000年澳大利亚悉尼夏季奥运会
奥运成绩:
金牌 1枚
银牌 2枚
其他成绩:
世界锦标赛
金牌1 枚 1999年
银牌1 枚 1995年
世界室内锦标赛
银牌1 枚 1995年
铜牌1 枚 1999年
巴哈马短道速跑先驱
波琳-伊莱恩-戴维斯在学生时代就开始接受体育训练，但她并没有专攻田径，她还接受了垒球、曲棍球和篮球的训练。13岁的时候，一位田径教练在她的比赛录象中发现了她的田径运动天赋，从此，戴维斯开始接受田径的专项训练。
1984年戴维斯在美国洛杉矶第一次参加了夏季奥运会，她也作为巴哈马队的旗手出席了开幕式。在100米比赛中，她在半决赛中被淘汰出局，最终只在4x100米接力中名列第六。
在1988年韩国汉城和1992年西班牙巴塞罗纳夏季奥运会上，波琳在100米和200米比赛中都止步于半决赛。1996年美国亚特兰大夏季奥运会上，她在400米半决赛和决赛中，两次打破巴哈马的国家纪录。在与世界顶尖运动员的较量中，波琳名列第四，在这届奥运会上，她还和队友一起获得4x100米接力的银牌。2000年，34岁的波琳在澳大利亚悉尼参加了自己的最后一届夏季奥运会。在200米比赛中，她跑出了自己运动员生涯的最好成绩，获得一枚银牌， 这也是巴哈马女子运动员第一次获得个人项目的奥运会奖牌。作为世界冠军，巴哈马队对4x100米项目的金牌渴望已久，在悉尼，波琳和队友终于为巴哈马夺得了第一枚奥运金牌。
在自己运动生涯的巅峰，波琳选择了急流勇退，悉尼奥运会结束后，波琳宣布退役，2004年，波琳也被授予大英帝国勋章（obe），以表彰她为巴哈马体育事业的做出的贡献。