Helen Wainwright

Helen Wainwright, also known by her married name Helen Stelling, was an American competition diver and swimmer for the Women's Swimming Association of New York, born on 15 March 1906 and died in October 1965. At the 1920 Olympics in Antwerp, aged just 14, she won the silver medal in the women's 3-meter springboard, and at the 1924 Olympics in Paris she won silver in the 400-meter freestyle, which makes her the only woman to win Olympic silver medals in both swimming and diving. She won 19 national championship titles, 17 in swimming and two in diving, set a world record in the 1500 metres freestyle on 19 August 1922 that stood for over three years, and was national diving champion from 1923 to 1925. After the Games she performed in swimming and diving shows in New York and later coached swimming on cruise liners. She was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame in 1972.