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3 de ago. de 2020 · Sammy Lee and Vicki Manalo Draves. Before there was Pat McCormick, Ingrid Engel-Kramer or Fu Mingxia, there was Vicki Manalo Draves.. At the 1948 London Olympics, the first summer games held since 1936, an abeyance caused by the Second World War, Manalo Draves became the first American woman to win two gold medals in an Olympic Games, as well as the first American woman to win both the ...
10 de ago. de 2012 · Another time, Lyle Draves, Vicki’s coach and later husband, tried to enter her into a Fairmont Hotel meet. The athletic committee told him that he could enter his other divers, like Zoe Ann Olsen—who would win the silver medal in the three-meter springboard in 1948—but not Draves herself.
19 de sept. de 2017 · American silver, gold and bronze medalists in the springboard finals, Zoe Ann Olsen, Vicki Draves and Patsy Elsener, at the 1948 London Olympics Vicki Manalo Draves was the most successful member of the US swimming and diving team at the 1948 London Olympics, the only American to win two individual gold medals.
3 de mar. de 2002 · Vicki Draves was the first female diver to win two gold medals at a single Olympics. Draves, now retired in Palm Springs, was also the first American woman of Asian descent to medal.
Draves, Victoria (1924–)American swimmer. Name variations: Vicki or Vickie Draves. Born Victoria Manalo, Dec 31, 1924, in San Francisco, California; dau. of a Filipino father and English mother; had a nonidentical twin sister; m. Lyle Draves (her diving coach), 1946. Source for information on Draves, Victoria (1924–): Dictionary of Women Worldwide: 25,000 Women Through the Ages dictionary.
Victoria Draves (San Francisco (California), Estados Unidos, 31 de diciembre de 1924-11 de abril de 2010) fue una clavadista o saltadora de trampolín estadounidense especializada en trampolín de 3 metros y plataforma de 10 metros, donde consiguió ser campeona olímpica en 1948 en ambas pruebas. [1] Carrera deportiva. En los Juegos Olímpicos de 1948 celebrados en Londres (Reino Unido) ganó ...
9 de oct. de 2015 · Oct. 9, 2015, 5:11 AM PDT / Updated Oct. 9, 2015, 5:11 AM PDT. By Emil Guillermo. Victoria Manalo Draves, the first American woman to win two gold medals in springboard and platform diving at the ...
