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Samuel Lee (born 7 February 1959) is an English professional football coach and former player. Lee played most of his career for hometown club Liverpool during the 1970s and 1980s as a midfielder , and also represented England fourteen times.
Sammy Lee (born August 1, 1920, Fresno, California, U.S.—died December 2, 2016, Newport Beach, California) was an 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.
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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 .
Dec 3, 2016 · Sammy Lee won platform gold and springboard bronze in 1948 and platform gold in 1952, becoming the first male diver to repeat as Olympic champion. He also served in the U.S. Army Medical Corps and faced racial discrimination as a Korean-American.
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Dec 3, 2016 · Samuel “Sammy” Lee, MD ’47, Olympic diving champion, coach and doctor, died Dec. 2 in Newport Beach due to pneumonia. He was 96. He was USC’s oldest surviving Olympian.
Sammy Lee, who was the first Asian-American man to win Olympic gold, has passed away at the age of 96.
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Sammy Lee was the first Asian American to win two Olympic gold medals in 10-meter diving, in 1948 and 1952. He was also a doctor, a soldier and a coach of U.S. diving champions.
