Galitzen, Michael Riley

Galitzen, Michael Riley

American athlete
also called  Mickey Riley, or Mickey Reilly  
born Sept. 6, 1909
died June 9, 1959, Hollywood, Calif., U.S.

      American diver who won four Olympic medals.

      Galitzen captured a springboard silver and a platform bronze at the 1928 Olympics in Amsterdam. At the 1932 Games in Los Angeles, he won a gold in the springboard and a silver in the platform event. Galitzen also earned numerous U.S. national titles: outdoor platform and 3-metre springboard (1928, 1929), indoor 1-metre springboard (1929, 1931, 1932), indoor 3-metre (192931), and 3-metre springboard (1931, 1932), the last while a student at the University of Southern California.

      Shortly after the 1932 Los Angeles Games, he married the American diver Georgia Coleman, who won a silver and a bronze in the 1928 Games and a gold and a silver in the 1932 Games.

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