Actually, he is the first black athlete to win a gold medal in the Olympics and has dozens of individual wins via the ISU Speed Skating World Cup. Davis holds three current world records for speed skating. He holds the current world record for 1000 meters with a time of 1:06.42, the record for 1500 meters with a time of 1:41.04, and the record for Samalog with a time of 145.742. Recently, he competed in the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, where he placed eighth in the 1000m race, twenty-fourth in the 500m race, and eleventh in the 1500m race. It has been said that the animated character, Frozone, from the movie The Incredibles, was inspired by Davis.