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Categories: 1895 births | 1982 deaths | American divers | Olympic divers of the United States | Divers at the 1924 Summer Olympics | Olympic gold medalists for the United States | Stanford Cardinal divers

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Men's Diving
Olympic medal record
Gold	1924 Paris	3 m springboard
Gold	1924 Paris	10 metre platform

Albert "Al" Cosad White (May 14, 1895 – July 8, 1982) was an American diver who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics. He competed collegiately for Stanford University, and was also the captain of Stanford's gymnastics team, which won the Pacific Coast Conference championship in 1921.^[1]

In 1924 he won the gold medal in the 3 m springboard competition as well as in the 10 metre platform event.

References

^ Migdol, Gary (1997). Stanford: Home of Champions. Sports Publishing LLC. pp. p. 69. ISBN 1571671161. http://books.google.com/books?id=ntsubst:BDmB_fYo8C&pg=PA5&sig=dQ8cE2nu119h8RZV4EXWYihBK90#PPA135,M1. Retrieved 2007-11-24.

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Olympic Diving Champions in Men's 3 metre Springboard

1908: Albert Zürner (GER) • 1912: Paul Günther (GER) • 1920: Louis Kuehn (USA) • 1924: Albert White (USA) • 1928: Pete Desjardins (USA) • 1932: Michael Galitzen (USA) • 1936: Richard Degener (USA) • 1948: Bruce Harlan (USA) • 1952: David Browning (USA) • 1956: Bob Clotworthy (USA) • 1960: Gary Tobian (USA) • 1964: Kenneth Sitzberger (USA) • 1968: Bernard Wrightson (USA) • 1972: Vladimir Vasin (RUS) • 1976: Phil Boggs (USA) • 1980: Aleksandr Portnov (RUS) • 1984 – 1988: Greg Louganis (USA) • 1992: Mark Lenzi (USA) • 1996 – 2000: Xiong Ni (CHN) • 2004: Peng Bo (CHN) • 2008: He Chong (CHN)

Olympic Diving Champions in Men's 10 metre Platform

1904: George Sheldon (USA) • 1908: Hjalmar Johansson (SWE) • 1912: Erik Adlerz (SWE) • 1920: Clarence Pinkston (USA) • 1924: Albert White (USA) • 1928: Pete Desjardins (USA) • 1932: Harold Smith (USA) • 1936: Marshall Wayne (USA) • 1948 – 1952: Samuel Lee (USA) • 1956: Joaquín Capilla (MEX) • 1960 – 1964: Bob Webster (USA) • 1968 – 1972 – 1976: Klaus Dibiasi (ITA) • 1980: Falk Hoffmann (GDR) • 1984 – 1988: Greg Louganis (USA) • 1992: Sun Shuwei (CHN) • 1996: Dmitri Sautin (RUS) • 2000: Tian Liang (CHN) • 2004: Hu Jia (CHN) • 2008: Matthew Mitcham (AUS)

Categories: 1895 births | 1982 deaths | American divers | Olympic divers of the United States | Divers at the 1924 Summer Olympics | Olympic gold medalists for the United States | Stanford Cardinal divers | Diving (acrobatics) stubs | Diving biography stubs | United States Olympic medalist stubs

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