caption fullname death_date club death_place birth_place image_size sport birth_date image article_title name nicknames
draves in 1948 victoria manalo draves 11 april 2010 los diving angeles athletic club patterson school of swimming and palm springs , california san francisco , california 160 diving december 31 , 1924 victoria manalo draves.jpg vicki draves
 vicki draves `` vicki ''
vicki draves

victoria manalo draves -lrb- december 31 , 1924 -- april 11 , 2010 -rrb- was an american competition diver who won gold medals for the united states in both platform and springboard diving in the 1948 summer olympics in london .
draves became the first woman to be awarded gold medals for both the ten-meter platform and the three-meter springboard .
additionally , draves became the first american woman to win two gold medals in diving .
she was born in san francisco .
victoria manalo was born to a filipino father and an english mother .
her parents met and married in san francisco .
she could n't afford to take swimming lessons until she was 10 years old and took summer swimming lessons from the red cross , paying five cents admission to a pool in the mission district .
manalo met diving coach phil patterson , who convinced draves to try her luck as a diver and she was a natural .
she graduated from high school in 1942 and took a temporary civil service job in the port surgeon 's office to add to the family 's meager income .
with patterson in the military during world war ii , victoria looked for a diving coach and found her future husband , lyle draves , whom she married in 1946 .
prior to competing in the 1948 olympics , draves won five united states diving championships .
draves turned professional after the olympics , joining larry crosby 's `` rhapsody in swimtime '' aquatic show at soldier field in chicago in 1948 .
she went on to appear in other shows and toured the u.s. and europe with buster crabbe 's `` aqua parade . ''
she was elected to the international swimming hall of fame in fort lauderdale , florida , in 1969 .
in october 2006 , a two-acre park -lrb- one acre each per gold medal -rrb- in san francisco was named victoria manalo draves park in her honor .
draves and her husband lived in palm springs , california until her death on april 11 , 2010 , aged 85 , from pancreatic cancer aggravated by pneumonia .
she was interred at forest lawn cemetery in cathedral city , california .
