Arthur Davis is a retired U.S. acrobatic gymnast who won two world championship titles while completing as the base in a mixed pair with top Shenea Booth

Shenea Booth

Shenea Booth is an American acrobatic gymnast who represented the United States of America at the 2001 World Games, the 2002 World Championships and the 2004 World Championships in the Mixed Pair event, along with her partner, Arthur Davis....

 (also retired from athletic competition).

Davis and Booth were the first U.S. athletes to win the mixed-pair all-around gold medal at the 2002 Sports Acrobatics World Championships in Riesa

Riesa

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. (The sport now known as acrobatic gymnastics

Acrobatic gymnastics

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 was called sports acrobatics until the mid-2000s.)

The pair tied for the gold medal in the 2002 World Championships with the Russian mixed pair of Yuri Trubitsin and Elena Kirjanova. Also in 2002, the pair placed second all-around at the 2002 Machuga Cup in Krasnodar

Krasnodar

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Davis and Booth placed second in the all-around, balance and tempo at the 2003 Volkov Cup in Veliki Novgorod, Russia

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The pair won the all-around at the U.S. National Sports Acrobatic Championships in 2002, 2003 and 2004. Davis and Booth also won national awards for performance, skill difficulty and choreography.

Davis and Booth repeated their world-championship gold-medal performance in the all-around at the 2004 Sports Acrobatics World Championships in Lievin

Liévin

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, France

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After their retirement, Booth and Davis formed the acrobatic gymnastics duo Realis, which made it to the final round of competition in the 2006 season of the U.S. reality TV show, America’s Got Talent.

Prior to working with Booth, Davis was the base in a mixed pair with top Aimee Broncatello (now retired). The pair placed first all-around at the 2000 National Championships in Jacksonville, Florida

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Davis and Broncatello placed third in dynamic and fifth all-around at the 2000 World Championships in Wroclaw

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, Poland

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, and they placed ninth all-around at the 1999 World Championships in Ghent

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, Belgium

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In 1996, Davis also won the mixed pairs all-around title with Natalie Baeza at the 1996 National Championships in Palm Springs

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, California

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