Victor Davis
Inducted In
1994
The winner of four Olympic medals and thirty-one Canadian Championship swimming events, Victor Davis showed a competitive spirit that won him respect the world over. Born in Guelph, he trained with the Region of Waterloo Swim Team (ROW) from 1981 to 1989.
At his retirement from competitive swimming in 1989, he held the World Record in his specialty, the 200-metre breast stroke (2:13.34) which he had previously broken at the World Championships in Ecuador 1982 and twice more in 1984.
His Olympic accomplishments include a gold in the 200 m breast stroke in the 1984 Olympics at Los Angeles and three silver medals, the 100 metre breast stroke and the 4 x 100 metre medley relay at Los Angeles and a silver in the 4 x 100 metre medley relay at the 1988 Seoul Olympics.
Davis was Swimming Canada’s Athlete of the Year in 1982, 1984 and 1986, was inducted into the Canadian Amateur Sports Hall of Fame in 1985 and was made a member of the Order of Canada in 1984. His life was brought to an untimely end in an automobile accident in Montreal in 1989.