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Vicki Draves

1924 - 2010

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Victoria Manalo Draves (née Manalo; December 31, 1924 – April 11, 2010) was a Filipino American competitive diver who won gold medals in both platform and springboard diving at 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, and the first Asian American to win Olympic gold medals. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vicki Draves has received more than 438,933 page views. Her biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Vicki Draves is the 2,599th most popular athlete (down from 1,904th in 2019), the 13,366th most popular biography from United States (down from 12,892nd in 2019) and the 445th most popular American Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Vicki Draves ranks 2,599 out of 6,025Before her are Joe Rantz, Elaine Thompson, Jos Lansink, Slavko Obadov, Khalid Boulami, and Valer Toma. After her are Vebjørn Rodal, Ángel Herrera Vera, Yekaterina Fesenko, Angelo Scuri, Tatyana Goyshchik, and Kurt Meier.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Vicki Draves ranks 500Before her are Ken Green, Joseph Campanella, Norvel Lee, Frank Lautenberg, Earl Palmer, and Vincent Canby. After her are Dolores Gray, Abdirizak Haji Hussein, Laurie Hughes, Ella Mae Morse, Sarah Caldwell, and A. B. Bardhan. Among people deceased in 2010, Vicki Draves ranks 459Before her are Isabella Abbott, John Dankworth, Peter Christopherson, Juan Carlos Arteche, Ksenija Pajčin, and Sławomir Skrzypek. After her are Bobby Charles, Jim Fuchs, Kage Baker, Shoya Tomizawa, Barbara Billingsley, and Lamont Johnson.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Vicki Draves ranks 13,366 out of 20,380Before her are Newton D. Baker (1871), Jessica Bowman (1980), The Godfather (1961), Anwar al-Awlaki (1971), Ray Luzier (1970), and Jay Acovone (1955). After her are Danny Ainge (1959), Jewel (1974), Weston McKennie (1998), Elizabeth Gillies (1993), Jane Dee Hull (1935), and Mona Freeman (1926).

Among ATHLETES In United States

Among athletes born in United States, Vicki Draves ranks 445Before her are Lawrence Shields (1895), Mary Decker (1958), Aries Merritt (1985), Meredith Colket (1878), Dennis Mitchell (1966), and Joe Rantz (1914). After her are Bob Seagren (1946), Jeremy Wariner (1984), Noah Lyles (1997), Constance Titus (1873), Charles Vinci (1933), and Jim Fuchs (1927).