Her personal best of 1.95 metres set on 26 June 1982, at a meet in Oslo, Norway, stood as the UK national record until 2014.
[2] At her first Olympic Games in Los Angeles, she cleared 1.90 in the qualification round, before finishing equal ninth in the final with 1.88.
At the European Indoor Championships in Madrid she was fourth with 1.90 m. Then representing England at the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, Scotland, in one of the highest quality Commonwealth high jump competitions, she again found 1.90 m not enough for a medal, losing out on countback to the Northern Irish pair, Sharon McPeake and Janet Boyle.
The winner was Australia's Christine Stanton with 1.92 m. At the European Championships in Stuttgart, both McPeake and Boyle failed to reach the final, leaving Davies as the only UK finalist, placing eighth with 1.87 m.[3] In 1987, she finished a fine fifth at the World Indoor Championships in Indianapolis, with 1.91 m. Davies qualified for her second Olympic Games in 1988.
Davies won her fourth AAAs Outdoor title in 1989,[2] earning selection for England, at the 1990 Commonwealth Games in Auckland, New Zealand, which were held in January.