Name Georgia Coleman Role Olympic athlete | Died September 14, 1940 | |
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Olympic medals Diving at the 1928 Summer Olympics – Women's 3 metre springboard People also search for Dorothy Poynton-Hill, Helen Meany | ||
Georgia V. Coleman (January 23, 1912 – September 14, 1940) was an American diver. She competed in the 3 m springboard and 10 m platform at the 1928 and 1932 Olympics and won one gold, one bronze and two silver medals. Domestically she collected 11 AAU titles.
At the 1932 Olympics Coleman announced her engagement to the Olympic diver Mickey Riley, but the marriage was cancelled. In 1937 she contracted polio. She learnt to swim again, but two years later developed pneumonia as an after effect of the polio, and died at the age of twenty-eight.
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