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Pat McCormick, Olympic Diving Champion, Is Dead at 92

The first diver to sweep the gold medals in two Olympics, she won 26 national championships in a career that ended when she was still in her 20s.

Pat McCormick circa 1952. She swept the women’s diving gold medals at the 1952 and 1956 Olympics before retiring from competition. Credit...Hulton Archive/Getty Images

Pat McCormick, the first diver to sweep the gold medals in two Olympics, died on Tuesday at an assisted living facility in Santa Ana, Calif. She was 92.

Her daughter, Kelly Robertson, confirmed her death.