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Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Victoria Morales Graves

Victoria Morales Graves, the first woman to win two gold medals in diving in the 1948 Olympics in London in the 3-meter springboard and the 10-meter platform competitions and the first Asian-American woman to win an Olympic gold, has died. She was 85. She was a native of San Francisco; her father was Filipino and her mother was English. Life magazine named her and decathlon gold winner Bob Mathias the top two US athletes at the 1948 Olympics.