Vicki Draves
Draves in 1948 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Victoria Manalo Draves | |||||||||||||||||
| National team | United States | |||||||||||||||||
| Born | December 31, 1924 San Francisco, California, U.S. | |||||||||||||||||
| Died | April 11, 2010 (aged 85) Palm Springs, California, U.S. | |||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Diving | |||||||||||||||||
| Club | Los Angeles Athletic Club Patterson School of Swimming and Diving | |||||||||||||||||
| Coached by | Jimmy Hughes, Phil Patterson, Lyle Draves | |||||||||||||||||
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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. Draves became the first woman to be awarded gold medals for both the ten-meter platform and the three-meter springboard. In a pioneering achievement, she was the first American woman to win two gold medals in diving, and the first Asian American to win Olympic gold medals. She was born in San Francisco.