Pauline Davis Receives 2000 Olympic Gold for 200 Meters
6/15/2010 12:00:00 AM
June 15, 2010
NASSAU, Bahamas - Former Alabama women's track and field NCAA champion, Pauline Davis (now Pauline Davis-Thompson), has received the 2000 Olympic gold medal for the 200 meters after it was stripped from USA's Marion Jones.
Davis-Thompson finished second in the 200 meters to Jones at the Sydney Games in 2000, but Jones was stripped of her medals from the Sydney Olympics when she admitted in 2007 that she had been using steroids. Davis-Thompson was also a gold medalist in Sydney as a member of Bahamas' 4x100 meter relay team.
While at Alabama, Davis-Thompson won NCAA titles in the indoor 200 meters in 1988, and the 400 meters during the 1989 outdoors season. Davis-Thompson competed at Alabama from 1986-89 and accumulated 19 All-America honors over those four years.
The Alabama women's track and field team now has two former student-athletes collecting three Olympic gold medals. Lillie Leatherwood won gold in 1984 on the USA 4x400 meter relay.
