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TIL the first first American woman to win two gold medals in diving was Filipino-American Victoria Manalo Draves, born in 1924 in San Francisco, who won at the 1948 London Olympics
Victoria Manalo Draves (December 31, 1924 – April 11, 2010) was an American competition diver who won gold medals in both platform and springboard diving in 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.[5] She was born in San Francisco.[6]
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