Georgia Coleman
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| Born | January 23, 1912 St. Maries, Idaho, U.S. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | September 14, 1940 (aged 28) Los Angeles, California, U.S. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Diving | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Los Angeles Athletic Club | ||||||||||||||||||||
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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.[1]
At the 1932 Olympics, Coleman announced her engagement to the Olympic diver Mickey Riley, but the marriage was cancelled. In 1937, she contracted polio.[2] She learned to swim again, but two years later developed pneumonia as an after effect of the polio, and died at the age of twenty-eight.[1]
See also
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[edit]- ^ a b Georgia Coleman. sports-reference.com
- ^ Biography Archived February 23, 2002, at the Library of Congress Web Archives. hickoksports.com
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