Vicki Draves

Vicki Draves, born Victoria Manalo in San Francisco on 31 December 1924, was a Filipino American diver who won both the platform and springboard events at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London. Her wins made her the first woman to take gold in both diving events at a single Games, the first American woman to win two Olympic diving golds and the first Asian American to win Olympic gold. Her father was a Filipino chef and musician and her mother an English maid. She took Red Cross swimming lessons at the age of ten, began diving at sixteen and, because of prejudice against Filipinos, competed for a time under the name Vicki Taylor. She trained under Lyle Draves, whom she married in 1946, and won five United States diving championships before the London Games. She died on 11 April 2010.