- Dorothy Poynton-Hill
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Olympic medal record Women's Diving Gold 1932 Los Angeles 10 metre platform Gold 1936 Berlin 10 metre platform Silver 1928 Amsterdam 3 m springboard Bronze 1936 Berlin 3 m springboard Dorothy Poynton-Hill (née Poynton, later Teuber; July 17, 1915 – May 18, 1995) was an American diver who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics, in the 1932 Summer Olympics, and in the 1936 Summer Olympics.
She was born in Salt Lake City, Utah and died in Riverside, California.
In 1928 she won the silver medal in the 3 metre springboard competition.
Four years later she won the gold medal in the 10 metre platform event.
In 1936 she won the gold medal in the 10 metre platform competition as well as the bronze medal in the 3 metre springboard event.
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Olympic Diving Champions in Women's 10 metre Platform 1912: Greta Johansson (SWE) • 1920: Stefanie Clausen (DEN) • 1924: Caroline Smith (USA) • 1928: Elizabeth Becker-Pinkston (USA) • 1932 – 1936: Dorothy Poynton-Hill (USA) • 1948: Vicki Draves (USA) • 1952 – 1956: Pat McCormick (USA) • 1960: Ingrid Krämer (EUA) • 1964: Lesley Bush (USA) • 1968: Milena Duchková (TCH) • 1972: Ulrika Knape (SWE) • 1976: Elena Vaytsekhovskaya (URS) • 1980: Martina Jäschke (GDR) • 1984: Zhou Jihong (CHN) • 1988: Xu Yanmei (CHN) • 1992 – 1996: Fu Mingxia (CHN) • 2000: Laura Wilkinson (USA) • 2004: Chantelle Newbery (AUS) • 2008: Chen Ruolin (CHN)
Categories:- 1915 births
- 1995 deaths
- American divers
- Female divers
- Olympic divers of the United States
- Divers at the 1928 Summer Olympics
- Divers at the 1932 Summer Olympics
- Divers at the 1936 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gold medalists for the United States
- Olympic silver medalists for the United States
- Olympic bronze medalists for the United States
- Olympic medalists in diving
- Diving (acrobatics) biography stubs
- American Olympic medalist stubs
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