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Victoria Manalo Draves (1924 - 2010) was a Filipino-American diver who overcame ethnic prejudice early in her career to become the first woman to win springboard and platform gold medals in the same Olympics in 1948. Draves became the first woman to be awarded gold medals for both the ten-meter platform and the three-meter springboard. She and Sammy Lee, the men’s platform winner and a Korean-American, became the first divers of Asian descent to win Olympic gold medals. In 2006, a park is named in her honor in her hometown neighborhood of known as the South of Market in San Francisco, California.