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Aug 3, 2020 · Draves was the first Asian American woman to win an Olympic medal and the first woman to take home the gold in both the platform and springboard events.
Oct 16, 2015 · Victoria Manalo Draves, or Vicki as she liked to be called, made history as the first American woman to win two gold medals for diving and as the first, and still only Filipino, to win an Olympic ...
Aug 3, 2022 · Vicki Manalo Draves won an Olympic gold medal in 1948, but her road to victory was filled with racism and discrimination.
Apr 11, 2010 · Biography. Born a twin daughter of an English mother and a Filipino father, Vicki Draves was obliged to use her mother’s maiden name, Taylor, to gain entry to the then racially conscious swimming clubs in the San Francisco area. She won the first of her four AAU titles in 1946 and at the 1948 Games she became the first woman to win both ...
Vicki Draves. Actress: The Trouble with Angels. Vicki Draves was born on 18 August 1945 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She was an actress, known for The Trouble with Angels (1966), Karen (1964) and The Munsters (1964). She was married to Lawrence Mole Parker. She died on 16 March 1995 in Toluca Lake, California, USA.
Nov 6, 2020 · Victoria Manalo Draves was born as Victoria Taylor Manalo in 1924 to a Filipino chef and an English maid. She grew up in San Francisco, went by the nickname Vicki and she was a competitive diver with three consecutive U.S. National Diving Championship platform titles. Vicki also earned the titles of being the first Asian American to win Olympic ...
Victoria Manalo Draves was the first woman in Olympic history to win both springboard and platform diving crowns in the same games. She was the only swimmer or diver to gold medal in two individual events at the 1948 London Olympiad.
