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Pat McCormick

1930 - 2023

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Patricia Joan Keller McCormick (May 12, 1930 – March 7, 2023) was an American competitive diver who won both diving events at two consecutive Summer Olympics, in 1952 and 1956. She won the James E. Sullivan Award for best amateur athlete in the US in 1956 – the second woman to do so, after Ann Curtis. As a child in the 1930s and 1940s she executed dives that were not allowed in competition for female divers (dives reputed to scare most men) and practiced cannonballs off the Los Alamitos Bridge in Long Beach, California Harbor. She attended Woodrow Wilson Classical High School, Long Beach City College, and California State University, Long Beach. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Pat McCormick is the 424th most popular athlete (down from 358th in 2019), the 5,518th most popular biography from United States (down from 5,253rd in 2019) and the 112th most popular American Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Pat McCormick ranks 424 out of 6,025. Before her are Victor Willems, Johnny Hayes, Durward Knowles, Lee Haney, Bernd Kannenberg, and José Villanueva. After her are Forrest Smithson, Henri Hazebrouck, Simon Slåttvik, John Kuck, Pavel Lednyov, and Renate Boy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Pat McCormick ranks 320. Before her are Ernst Tugendhat, Jan Olszewski, Jesús Garay, Jack Taylor, Rubén Morán, and Ahmed Osman. After her are Ilya Glazunov, Justinas Marcinkevičius, Hédi Baccouche, Robert Ryman, Tsutomu Seki, and Merab Mamardashvili. Among people deceased in 2023, Pat McCormick ranks 262. Before her are Nadja Tiller, Margit Carstensen, Salma Khadra Jayyusi, Meir Shalev, Elisabeth Kopp, and Tatjana Patitz. After her are Klaus Teuber, Renate Boy, Reino Börjesson, Paul Johnson, Johan Leysen, and Raoul Servais.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Pat McCormick ranks 5,518 out of 20,380. Before her are Jakob Dylan (1969), Tony Thompson (1954), Jessica Drake (1974), Janet Hubert (1956), Beau Biden (1969), and Diana Hyland (1936). After her are Saul Zaentz (1921), Tommy Dorsey (1905), Mike Castle (1939), Mark White (1940), Forrest Smithson (1884), and George Kingsley Zipf (1902).

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Among ATHLETES In United States

Among athletes born in United States, Pat McCormick ranks 112. Before her are Harold Osborn (1899), Constance Titus (1873), Daniel Kinsey (1902), Charles Reidpath (1889), Johnny Hayes (1886), and Lee Haney (1959). After her are Forrest Smithson (1884), John Kuck (1905), Ed Hamm (1906), Frank Irons (1886), Platt Adams (1885), and Mike Conley Sr. (1962).

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