![]() Draves in 1948 | ||||||||||||||||||
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Full name | Victoria Manalo Draves[1] | |||||||||||||||||
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Born | San Francisco, California, U.S.[1] | December 31, 1924|||||||||||||||||
Died | April 11, 2010 Palm Springs, California, U.S.[1] | (aged 85)|||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Diving | |||||||||||||||||
Club | Los Angeles Athletic Club Patterson School of Swimming and Diving[2][1] | |||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Victoria Manalo Draves (née Manalo; December 31, 1924 – April 11, 2010) was a Filipino American competitive diver who won gold medals in both platform and springboard diving at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London.[3] Draves became the first woman to be awarded gold medals for both the ten-meter platform and the three-meter springboard.[4] Additionally, Draves became the first American woman to win two gold medals in diving, and the first Asian American to win Olympic gold medals.[5][6] She was born in San Francisco.[7]
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