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Pat McCormick

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Pat McCormick was an American competitive diver who won gold medals in both the springboard and platform events at consecutive Olympic Games, 1952 and 1956, a sweep no diver had achieved before.

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Birth Year
1930 1
Birth Date
1930-05-12 1
Death Year
2023 1
Death Date
2023-03-07 1
Nationality
American 1
Career Highlight
Won both diving events at the 1952 and 1956 Summer Olympics and received the 1956 James E. Sullivan Award as the best amateur athlete in the United States. 1
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  • Lead sentence, birth date
    Patricia Joan Keller McCormick (May 12, 1930 - March 7, 2023) was an American competitive diver who won both diving events at two consecutive Summer Olympics, in 1952 and 1956.
  • Lead sentence, birth year
    Patricia Joan Keller McCormick (May 12, 1930 - March 7, 2023) was an American competitive diver who won both diving events at two consecutive Summer Olympics, in 1952 and 1956.
  • Lead sentence, nationality
    Patricia Joan Keller McCormick (May 12, 1930 - March 7, 2023) was an American competitive diver who won both diving events at two consecutive Summer Olympics, in 1952 and 1956.
  • Lead paragraph, career highlight
    She won the James E. Sullivan Award for best amateur athlete in the US in 1956 - the second woman to do so, after Ann Curtis.
  • Lead sentence, death date
    Patricia Joan Keller McCormick (May 12, 1930 - March 7, 2023) was an American competitive diver who won both diving events at two consecutive Summer Olympics, in 1952 and 1956.
  • Lead sentence, death year
    Patricia Joan Keller McCormick (May 12, 1930 - March 7, 2023) was an American competitive diver who won both diving events at two consecutive Summer Olympics, in 1952 and 1956.
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