Georgia Coleman

Georgia Coleman, born on 23 January 1912 and died on 14 September 1940, was an American diver who competed in the 3 metre springboard and 10 metre platform at the 1928 and 1932 Olympic Games and won one gold, one bronze and two silver medals. She took the gold medal in the 3 metre springboard in 1932 and collected eleven Amateur Athletic Union titles at home. At the 1932 Games she announced her engagement to the fellow Olympic diver Mickey Riley, though the marriage was cancelled. She contracted polio in 1937, learned to swim again, and two years later died of pneumonia, an after-effect of the illness, at the age of twenty-eight.