Walt Davis
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title:
Walt Davis
text:
Walter Francis "Buddy" Davis was an American athlete. After winning a gold medal in the high jump at the 1952 Olympics he became a professional basketball player. Despite contracting polio at age nine and being unable to walk for three years, Davis had a standout athletic career at Texas A&M University and later won Olympic gold in the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland, with a leap of 2.04 metres. The Philadelphia Warriors selected the 6 ft 8 in (2.03 m) Davis in the second round of the
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American basketball player (1931–2020)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt_Davis
date created:
2006-01-06T07:33:50Z
date modified:
2024-08-27T16:01:12Z
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