Coleman, Georgia

Coleman, Georgia

▪ American athlete
born January 23, 1912, St. Maries, Idaho, U.S.
died September 14, 1940, Los Angeles, California

      American diver, the first woman to perform a forward 21/2 somersault dive in competition. She won several Olympic medals, including a gold in the springboard event.

      Coleman had been diving for just six months when she entered the 1928 Olympic Games in Amsterdam, where she won a silver medal in the 10-metre platform competition and a bronze in the 3-metre springboard. An athletic diver, Coleman dominated the U.S. national diving championships over the next several years, winning the outdoor springboard and platform titles (1929–31) and the indoor 1-metre (1931) and 3-metre (1929–32) springboard events. At the 1932 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, she won a gold medal in the 3-metre springboard competition and another silver in the 10-metre platform.

      In 1937 Coleman contracted polio; three years later, at age 28, she died after developing pneumonia.

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