Aileen Riggin

Aileen Muriel Riggin, later known as Aileen Soule, was an American competition swimmer and diver born in Newport, Rhode Island on 2 May 1906, who died in Honolulu on 17 October 2002. At 14 years and 120 days she won the women's 3 metre springboard diving title at the 1920 Antwerp Olympics, the first female Olympic diving champion and the youngest female Olympic champion up to that time. At the 1924 Paris Games she won silver in springboard diving and bronze in the 100 metre backstroke, and she is widely credited as the only woman to win medals in two sports at the same Games. A charter member of the Women's Swimming Association of New York, she later acted in films, worked as a sports journalist, was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame in 1967 and set masters swimming world records at the age of 85.