Marjorie Gestring

(1922-1992) lived in Omaha. Athlete, salesperson, won gold medal in three-meter springboard diving at 1936 Olympics when 13 years and 9 months of age, remains youngest person in Olympic history to win an individual gold medal in any sport, won total of eight Amateur Athletic Union titles from 1936 to 1940. Consult Bill Mallon and Ian Buchanan, Quest For Gold: The Encyclopedia of American Olympians (Leisure Press, 1984) pp. 83-84 and Sunday /Omaha/ World Herald, August 2, 1992, pp. 1, 6-7 and David Wallechinsky, The Complete Book of the Summer Olympics (Little, Brown, 1996) 362.

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