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Dave Johnson (decathlete)

American decathlete

For the Canadian 1924 Olympic athlete, see David Johnson (runner).

Full nameDavid Allen Johnson
BornApril 7, 1963 (1963-04-07) (age 61)
Missoula, Montana, U.S.

David Allen Johnson (born April 7, 1963) is a former Olympic decathlete from the United States. A native of Montana, he grew up in Missoula and Corvallis, Oregon. He was part of Reebok's "Dan & Dave" advertising campaign, with fellow decathlete Dan O'Brien, leading up to the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain, where he won a bronze medal in the decathlon. After retiring from competitive athletics he became a school teacher and administrator, serving as athletic director of Corban University in Salem, Oregon starting in 2009. Johnson accepted a position as Director with the Fellowship of Christian Athletes Oregon in June 2012. On November 14, 2012, Johnson resigned from Corban to devote more time to the Fellowship of Christian Athletes.[1] He now coaches pole vault & hurdles at South Salem High School.[citation nee

Dave Johnson

Two-time Olympian Dave Johnson won the decathlon bronze medal at the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games while competing on a broken foot. USA Today tabbed Dave as the "world's best known bronze medalist."

Since those games, Dave Johnson has been made famous by the dueling "Dan vs. Dave" Reebok ads. And while it is true that Dave is comfortable in front of a camera, you'll most likely find him with his family and support group in Salem, Oregon or making appearances on behalf of one of his causes.

Already an accomplished public speaker, Dave is comfortable in front of a microphone, in front of a group and on camera. He has appeared on numerous TV shows as a guest and as a guest-host. His featured appearances in Reebok, Pert Plus and Ryder truck commercials, to name just a few, have shown off his natural charm and boyish good looks. He is also a "cause-related person," very aware of his impact on young children and always striving to be a positive role model.

Dave Johnson is now an assistant principal and athletics director at a high school, and enjoys speaking on the im

Dave Johnson is a writer, musician, speaker, and heart transplant survivor After a 17 long year battle with a chronic heart disease, he spent 9 months with an implanted total artificial heart, living in the hospital for 5 of those. He was finally transplanted on May 24th 2016 and chronicled this long struggle in his auto-biography, Conversations from Room 1170, and it's companion (double) album of the same name, both available at Amazon. Dave has been writing seriously for twenty years and is the author of several novels; Float Your Boat - a dark and irreverent comedy based on the Biblical flood account, The Ghost of Maddingbrew, a steampunk espionage novel, and Lorenzo the Magnificent, an historical fiction novel about the Medici family at the height of the Renaissance. He was also the a director and co-writer for the critically acclaimed and fan lauded Thief 2X video game mod that won game mod of the year in several international PC game magazines including PC Gamer, and Game World the year it was released, as well as several international "Mod of the Decade" awar

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