Georgia Coleman
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Born | January 23, 1912 St. Maries, Idaho, U.S. | ||||||||||||||||||||
Died | September 14, 1940 (aged 28) Los Angeles, California, U.S. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Diving | ||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Los Angeles Athletic Club | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Georgia V. Coleman (January 23, 1912 – September 14, 1940) was an American diver. She competed in the 3 m springboard and 10 m platform at the 1928 and 1932 Olympics and won one gold, one bronze and two silver medals. Domestically she collected 11 AAU titles.[1]
At the 1932 Olympics, Coleman announced her engagement to the Olympic diver Mickey Riley, but the marriage was cancelled. In 1937, she contracted polio.[2] She learned to swim again, but two years later developed pneumonia as an after effect of the polio, and died at the age of twenty-eight.[1]
See also
References
- ^ a b Georgia Coleman. sports-reference.com
- ^ Biography Archived February 23, 2002, at the Library of Congress Web Archives. hickoksports.com
External links
- Georgia Coleman at databaseOlympics.com
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- 1920: Aileen Riggin (USA)
- 1924: Elizabeth Becker (USA)
- 1928: Helen Meany (USA)
- 1932: Georgia Coleman (USA)
- 1936: Marjorie Gestring (USA)
- 1948: Vicki Draves (USA)
- 1952: Pat McCormick (USA)
- 1956: Pat McCormick (USA)
- 1960: Ingrid Krämer (EUA)
- 1964: Ingrid Krämer (EUA)
- 1968: Susanne Gossick (USA)
- 1972: Micki King (USA)
- 1976: Jennifer Chandler (USA)
- 1980: Irina Kalinina (URS)
- 1984: Sylvie Bernier (CAN)
- 1988: Gao Min (CHN)
- 1992: Gao Min (CHN)
- 1996: Fu Mingxia (CHN)
- 2000: Fu Mingxia (CHN)
- 2004: Guo Jingjing (CHN)
- 2008: Guo Jingjing (CHN)
- 2012: Wu Minxia (CHN)
- 2016: Shi Tingmao (CHN)
- 2020: Shi Tingmao (CHN)
- 2024: Chen Yiwen (CHN)
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