Name: Tom Davis
Sport: Cycling
Discipline(s):
Road Cycling
Event(s): Time Trial, Road Race
Classification: MH4
Height: 6-0
DOB: 4/22/1977
Birthplace: Montpelier, Ohio
Hometown: Fremont, Ind.
High School: Reading High School (Reading, Mich.) '95
College: Northwood University - Midland ’99, Business Management/Marketing
Paralympic Experience
- Two-time Paralympian (2016, 2020)
- Paralympic Games Tokyo 2020, 5th (time trial, road race)
- Paralympic Games Rio 2016, 4th (road race), 6th (road time trial)
World Championship Experience
- Most recent: 2019 – Road – silver (road race, time trial, team relay)
- Years of participation: Road – 2014, 2017, 2018, 2019
- Medals: 3 (3 silver)
- Silver – 2019 (road race, time trial, team relay)
Personal:
A combat-wounded veteran who has been cycling since 2012...He joined the U.S. Army in 2002 and reached the rank of Staff Sergeant...On June 3, 2006, he rode shotgun in a Humvee as it drove through Ramadi, the most dangerous city in Iraq at the time...While turning, the truck ran over an improvised explosive device...The blast threw the truck two stories in the air and it flipped backward and landed on its roof...After surgery, he decided to have his left leg removed......Lives with his wife, Jamie, and four children, two daughters, Elliana and Lyllian, and two sons, Brenan and Isaiah in Fremont, Indiana, a small town of roughly 2,000 people...Son of Raymond and Wilma Davis...Has one sister, Pam, and one older brother, Joe...In his spare time, he enjoys coaching youth sports.
