Sharron Davies was born on 1962 in Plymouth, Devon, England, UK.

She learned to swim at age six and was training seriously two years later.

In 1976, still a few months prior to her fourteenth birthday, Davies was selected to represent the UK at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal.

By 1980 Sharron Davies was ready for a more serious Olympic challenge. She took the silver medal in the 400m individual medley behind East German Petra Schneider.

At the age of 18, Davies called time on the first stage of her swimming career in order to build her television profile and a career in modelling.

In 1989 she returned to the pool where she picked up two more medals at the 1990 Commonwealth Games. By the time she finally hung up her swimsuit for good in 1994, she had been a British champion on twenty occasions and had broken two hundred British swimming records and 5 World Masters records.

In 2006, Sharron Daviesv supported the British Olympic bid by profile raising and appearing as spokesperson on BBC's Question Time where she made a strong case for bringing the games the London.

Davies has published a number of health and fitness videos and co-authored books on the same topic. In 1995 she joined ITV's Gladiators as Gladiator Amazon. A knee injury forced her to withdraw from the gameshow in 1996.