event birth_place headercolor weight height pb sport birth_date residence article_title name
sprint monrovia , liberia lightblue 54 kg lb 0 on 1.70 0 on '' -lrb- 2007 -rrb- '' ' 400 m '' ' : ' 51.55 s -lrb- 2008 -rrb- 200 m '' ' : 23.12 s athletics 23 may 1976 chester , pennsylvania , united states kia davis
 kia davis
kia davis

kia davis -lrb- born may 23 , 1976 in monrovia -rrb- is a liberian-american sprinter .
she is a multiple-time national record holder in the sprint and hurdles , a three-time usa track & field national indoor finalist for the 60 m hurdles , and holds a dual citizenship for liberia and the united states in order to compete internationally for her categories .
she also won the silver medal , as a member of the u.s. team , in the women 's 4 × 400 m relay at the 2006 iaaf world indoor championships in moscow , russia .
davis represented her nation liberia at the 2008 summer olympics in beijing , where she competed in two sprint categories .
for her first event , 400 metres , davis ran in the fifth heat against six other athletes , including american sprinter sanya richards , who eventually won the bronze medal in the final .
she finished the race only in last place by sixty-three hundredths of a second -lrb- 0.63 -rrb- behind kazakhstan 's olga tereshkova , with a time of 53.99 seconds .
three days later , davis competed for her second event , 200 metres , where she finished the first heat in sixth place by fifteen hundredths of a second -lrb- 0.15 -rrb- ahead of suriname 's kirsten nieuwendam , outside her personal best time of 24.31 seconds .
davis , however , failed to advance into the next round for all of her participating events .
davis currently resides in chester , pennsylvania , and works as an assistant head coach for the pittsburgh panthers track and field team , focusing on the sprint and hurdles .
