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Victoria Manalo Draves Fil-am Olympic Diving Champion

Victoria Manalo Draves the first woman to win two gold medals in diving in the same Olympics in the three-meter springboard and the 10-meter platform competitions in London in 1948 and the. A two-acre park named Victoria Manalo Draves Park was dedicated in her honor in San Franciscos South of Market district in 2006 where she was born and raised.


Victoria Manalo Draves Olympic Diver Dies

SAN FRANCISCO Over a hundred kababayans gathered at the two-acre park on the corner of Folsom and Sherman Streets in San Francisco last Sunday to honor a Filipina who survived discrimination to be one of the most celebrated athletes in the worldchampion diver Victoria Manalo-Draves.

Victoria manalo draves fil-am olympic diving champion. Aug 31 2013 - Posts about Victoria Manalo Draves written by Filipino American Sports. She was the first woman of Filipino heritage to represent the United States and the first woman in Olympic history to win gold medals in both springboard diving and platform diving. Victoria Manalo Draves the first woman to win two gold medals in diving in the same Olympics - in the 3-meter springboard and the 10-meter platform competitions in London in 1948 -.

Victoria Draves was born Victoria Taylor Manalo in the South of Market district of San Francisco on December 31st 1924. The athlete was the first woman to win two golds in diving in the same Olympics. Victoria Manalo-Draves who became the first of two Americans of Asian decent to win an Olympic gold medal died without much fanfare in.

Bureau 0307 AM October 10 2015 A SPECIAL PLAQUE will be unveiled for Olympian Victoria Manalo Draves in San Francisco. Victoria Manalo Draves the first woman to win a gold medal in springboard and platform diving -- considered the Filipino American communitys first national heroine -- died earlier this month of heart and cancer complications. Victoria Manalo-Draves was a biracial member of the US Olympic team that competed in London in 1948.

Victoria Vicki Manalo Draves passed away early this month at 85 from pancreatic cancer aggravated by pneumonia. Victoria Vicki Manalo-Draves who died in 2010 at the age of 85 was half-Filipina and half-British. In its description of the doodle Google noted that on August 3 1948 the Fil-Am diver won the gold medal in the womens three-meter springboard event at the London Summer Olympics.

San Francisco California USA. Google honors Victoria Manalo Draves Fil-Am gold medalist for springboard diving at the 1948 London Olympics. Victoria Manalo Draves for the US Olympic Hall of Fame Los Angeles CA.

The first woman in Olympic history to win gold medals in both springboard diving and platform diving. The Olympic legend had visited the Philippines shortly after her Olympic conquest and conducted diving exhibitions at the Rizal Memorial Complex and in other venues. I learned about her passage early last Tuesday from Fil-Am San Francisco-based lawyer Jojo Liangco.

FILIPINA American Victoria Vicki Manalo-Draves was honored with a Google Doodle on Monday August 3 on the 72nd anniversary of her winning moment at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London. A complete sweep in diving events. At the London Olympics in 1948 Vicki Draves won two gold medals in springboard and platform diving becoming the first woman to achieve that feat.

Olympic coach Lyle Draves husband of the first woman in history to win the Platform and Springboard gold medals in the 1948 London Olympics. At the London Olympics in 1948 Vicki Draves won two gold medals in springboard and platform diving becoming the first woman to achieve that feat. Vicki Manalo Draves of Los Angeles won the Womens Olympic high dive to score the first American double in Olympic competition giving the US.

Olympic diver Victoria Draves dies. Vicki was an Olympic diver who won gold medals for the US in both platform and springboard diving in the 1948 Summer Olympics. Victoria Vicki Manalo Draves December 31 1924 April 11 2010 was an Olympic diver who won gold medals for the United States in both platform and.

Draves bagged gold medals for both the 10-meter platform and 3-meter springboard diving events making her the first Asian American woman to win a medal. The first Filipina-American athlete to compete in the Olympics. The park used to be the same site where Franklin Elementary School once stood a school Victoria attended just four blocks away from she was born.

My name is Nolan Draves and Victoria Draves or Vicki was my grandmother. The park used to be the same site where Franklin Elementary School once stood a school Victoria attended as a youngster just four blocks away from she was born. I MET the late former US.

Life magazine named her one of the top two American athletes.


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