(1924-12-31)December 31, 1924 San Francisco, California, U.S.[1]
Died
April 11, 2010(2010-04-11) (aged 85) Palm Springs, California, U.S.[1]
Sport
Sport
Diving
Club
Los Angeles Athletic Club Patterson School of Swimming and Diving[2][1]
Victoria Manalo Draves (néeManalo; 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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^Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Vicki Draves". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on April 18, 2020.
^McLellan, Dennis (April 29, 2010), "Victoria Manalo Draves dies at 85; Olympic gold medal diver", The Los Angeles Times
^Elliott Robert Barkan (2001). Making It in America: A Sourcebook on Eminent Ethnic Americans. ABC-CLIO. p. 100. ISBN 978-1-57607-098-7. Retrieved June 21, 2013.
^Cabanilla, Devin Israel (December 15, 2016). "Media fail to give REAL first Asian American Olympic gold medalist her due". The Seattle Globalist. Retrieved April 23, 2019.
^Jonathan H. X. Lee; Kathleen M. Nadeau (2011). Encyclopedia of Asian American Folklore and Folklife. ABC-CLIO. p. 435. ISBN 978-0-313-35066-5.
^Elliott Robert Barkan; Roland L. Guyotte; Barbara M. Posadas (2012). "Filipinos and Filipino Americans, 1870–1940". Immigrants in American History: Arrival, Adaptation, and Integration. ABC-CLIO. pp. 347–356. ISBN 978-1-59884-219-7.
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