Pauline Elaine Davis-Thompson (born 9 July 1966) is a former Bahamian sprinter. She competed at five Olympics,^[1] a rarity for a track and field athlete. She won her first medal at her fourth Olympics and her first gold medals at her fifth Olympics (Sydney 2000) at age 34 in the 4 × 100 m Relay and, after Marion Jones' belated disqualification nine years later, in the 200m.

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Pauline Davis-Thompson

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Born	(1966-07-09) 9 July 1966 (age 57) Nassau, Bahamas
Medal record Women's athletics Representing  Bahamas Olympic Games 2000 Sydney 4×100 m relay 2000 Sydney 200 m 1996 Atlanta 4×100 m relay World Championships 1999 Seville 4×100 m relay 1995 Gothenburg 400 m World Indoor Championships 1995 Barcelona 200 m 1999 Maebashi 200 m Central American and Caribbean Games 1986 Santiago 100 m 1986 Santiago 200 m Commonwealth Games 1990 Auckland 100 m 1990 Auckland 200 m

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In 1984, she was awarded the Austin Sealy Trophy for the most outstanding athlete of the 1984 CARIFTA Games.^[2][3]

Her first high-profile success came in 1989 when she became the NCAA National Champion in the 200-meter dash while setting a collegiate national record as a member of the Alabama Crimson Tide team at the University of Alabama. Then in 1995, she won the silver medal in the 200 metres at the IAAF World Indoor Championships and won another silver, this time in the 400 metres, at the 1995 World Championships in Athletics.^{[citation needed]}

She ran at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics the following year and although she narrowly missed out on a medal in the 400 m, she helped the Bahamian team to a silver medal in the 4 x 100 metres relay. In 1997 she made both the 400 m and 100 m relay finals but failed to win a medal in either event. She received her first World Championships gold medal two years later, in 1999, aiding the Bahamian relay team to victory.^{[citation needed]}

She won a gold medal in both the 200 metres and the 4 × 100 m relay at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. She originally finished in second place in the women's 200 m behind Marion Jones, but on 5 October 2007, Jones admitted to taking performance-enhancing steroids and was stripped of the title. On 9 December 2009, Davis-Thompson was awarded the gold medal.^[4]

After her track career, she went into athletics administration, being elected to the IAAF council in 2007.^[5]

She is married to Jamaican Olympic hurdler (1992) Mark Thompson.^[6]

As a teenager, she had to constantly wear a sports bra to deal with her unoptimal physique at the time.^[7]