Graham John DavyOBE (4 October 1936 – 18 June 2018) was a New Zealand athlete and sports administrator. He won one national athletics title, and served as the chair of directors of the New Zealand Sports Foundation.
In 1960, Davy married Janette Catherine McKenzie, and the couple went on to have three children.[3]
As an athlete, Davy won the New Zealand national 100 yards title representing Auckland in 1960, with a time of 9.6 seconds.[4][5]
Davy served as secretary of the Auckland Amateur Athletic Association, and in that role in 1972 he helped Arthur Lydiard get a job with Winstone Ltd that enabled Lydiard to assist athletes and coaches throughout New Zealand.[6] The same year, Davy was the athletics team manager for the New Zealand team at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich.[7] He was involved in the formation of the New Zealand Sports Foundation in 1979,[8] and served as a director and chair of the directorate of that body.[9] In 1981, he became the inaugural president of the Pacific Conference Games Federation.[10] He was the director of athletics at the 1990 Commonwealth Games, held in Auckland.[3]