Samuel Lee (August 1, 1920 - December 2, 2016) was an American physician and diver. He was the first Asian American man to win an Olympic gold medal for the United States (the second Asian American to win a gold medal overall) [2] and the first man to win back-to-back gold medals in Olympic platform diving . Early life and education May 14, 2021 Born in California in 1920 to Korean immigrant parents, Dr. Sammy Lee represented and served the United States in many ways. By the 1950s, Lee was an Olympic gold medalist, a U.S. Army physician, and a goodwill ambassador for the State Department.
Dr. Sammy Lee Strawberry Festival
Dr. Sammy Lee, the first Asian-American man to win an Olympic gold medal, died over the weekend after battling pneumonia. He was 96. In the 1930s, Southern California had enough of the South in. Dr. Sammy Lee, who died of pneumonia on Friday in Newport Beach, Calif., at age 96, faced prejudice growing up, and discrimination when he tried to buy a home in a white community in Southern. Sammy Lee, (born August 1, 1920, Fresno, California, U.S.—died December 2, 2016, Newport Beach, California), American diver, the first Asian American man to win an Olympic gold medal and the first diver to win consecutive Olympic gold medals in the platform event. Dr. Sammy Lee, a noted Southland physician and the first Asian American to win an Olympic gold medal for the United States, has died of complications from pneumonia, his son, Sammy Lee II, said.
Dr. Sammy Lee (19202016) Olympic Champion and Goodwill Ambassador
Dr. Sammy Lee '43, the first Asian American male to win an Olympic gold medal for the United States and an inaugural member of the Occidental College Athletic Hall of Fame, died on Friday at age 96. Lee died of complications from pneumonia at a Newport Beach Hospital, his son, Sammy Lee II, told City News Service. Dr. Sammy Lee, the first Asian-American man to win an Olympic gold medal and first male diver to repeat as Olympic champion, died of pneumonia at age 96 on Friday, according to the University of Southern California.. Lee was born in Fresno, Calif., of Korean parents. He unretired from a medical career to compete in his first Olympics in London in 1948, after the Games took a 12-year break due. Dr. Lee was the first man to retain an Olympic platform title and when he finally retired from competition, he established a reputation as an outstanding coach, counting among his pupils the next man to win back-to-back golds in the platform, Bob Webster. In 1953 Lee was awarded the James E. Sullivan Award as the USA's top amateur athlete. Diver Sammy Lee at the 1948 U.S. Olympic trials in Detroit. Dr. Lee won three Olympic medals, including golds in platform diving at the 1948 and 1952 Summer Games.
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The 5-foot Lee, who was of Korean descent, was the first Asian-American man to win an Olympic gold medal for the U.S. In this April 18, 2012 file photo, Olympic diving champion Dr. Sammy Lee waves. Olympic diving champion Dr. Sammy Lee waves to cheers during U.S. Olympic team festivities in New York's Times Square. Lee, a two-time Olympic gold medal-winning diver who later mentored four-time.
Dr. Sammy Lee (USA) Honor Diver (1968) The information on this page was written the year of their induction. FOR THE RECORD: OLYMPIC GAMES: 1948 gold (platform), bronze (springboard); 1952 gold (platform); 1964, 1968 (U.S. Olympic diving coach); NATIONAL AAU CHAMPIONSHIPS: springboard, platform; SULLIVAN AWARD: 1953. Victoria Manalo Draves and Sammy Lee were not only the first Asian Americans to win Olympic gold medals but also lifelong friends. The divers' friendship began well before their triumphant.
Dr. Sammy Lee (19202016) Olympic Champion and Goodwill Ambassador
Dr. Sammy Lee was born in Fresno on August 1, 1920 to Korean-American parents. In 1932, the Olympic Games impressed him so much, he told his father that one day he would win an Olympic gold medal.. Sammy Lee went back to the Olympics in 1952 in Helsinki, Finland at the age of thirty-two and won another gold medal, becoming the first athlete. Dr. Sammy Lee coached two Olympic Divers, Bob Webster and Paula Jean Myers-Pope. They trained in the diving end of the pool while Jeffers swam. They went on to win gold medals in Olympic competition. Webster duplicated Lee's two consecutive gold medals on the Tower in 1960 in Rome and 1964 in Tokyo.
