Los Angeles, Mar 11: Pat McCormick, who became the first diver to sweep the 3-meter and 10-meter events at consecutive Olympics, has died. She was 92. Her son, Tim, said she died on Tuesday of natural causes at an assisted living facility in the Orange County city of Santa Ana. McCormick won the springboard and platform events at the 1952 Helsinki Games. She accomplished the feat again four years later at the Melbourne Games. Tim McCormick was born just five months before the Olympics in Australia. Greg Louganis equalled McCormick's accomplishment when he swept the 3-meter and 10-meter titles at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics and again in 1988 at Seoul. Siphamandla Mtolo, 29-Year-Old Footballer, Dies After Collapsing During Training.

McCormick's daughter, Kelly Robertson, competed on the same Olympic teams as Louganis. She won a silver medal on the springboard in 1984 and a bronze in the same event in 1988. Pat McCormick won the James Sullivan Award as the nation's top amateur athlete in 1956, the second woman to do so. Born Patricia Joan Keller on May 12, 1930, in Seal Beach, California, as a youngster she was known for executing dives that weren't allowed in competition while practicing off a bridge. “She was good at everything she did,” Kelly Robertson said. “She wasn't afraid of anything. She was super tough.”

McCormick won 26 U.S. national titles, second all-time among American women, from 1946-56. She was undefeated at national championship meets in 1951 and 1954, winning all 10 titles available to women in those two years.

She won gold on the platform and silver on the 3-metre at the 1951 Pan American Games, and she followed up with gold on both events at the 1955 event. McCormick was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame.

She was educated in Long Beach, attending Woodrow Wilson High, Long Beach City College and Cal State Long Beach. Moustapha Sylla, 21-Year-Old Ivorian Football Player, Dies of Heart Attack After Collapsing While Playing; Video Emerges.

After her Olympic career ended, McCormick did diving tours and modelled for Catalina swimwear. She appeared on the game shows “To Tell the Truth” and “You Bet Your Life” in the 1950s. She served on the organizing committee for the 1984 Los Angeles Games and started the Pat McCormick Educational Foundation in 2010. McCormick was an adventurer who climbed Mount Kilimanjaro, travelled down the Amazon River, skied in Switzerland, body surfed, competed in horse jumping and got her pilot's license.

“Her life was so wonderful,” Tim McCormick said. "She was quite a spitfire. She lived her life to the fullest her way." McCormick's former husband, Glenn, was a diving coach and a pilot who flew them to Hawaii. “They would go spearfishing and she would come out with two or three fish stuffed in her suit,” Kelly Robertson recalled. “She was a trip.” Among McCormick's visitors in her final days was four-time Olympic swimming champion John Nabor, her son said. Besides her son and daughter, McCormick is survived by six grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. She and her husband divorced after 24 years and he died in 1995. According to her wishes, McCormick was cremated and her ashes will be scattered at sea, her son said.

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