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Phillip ("Phil") George Boggs (December 29, 1949 – July 4, 1990) was a diver and Olympic gold medalist from the United States; he won the 3 m springboard event at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada.
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| Full name | Phillip George Boggs | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | December 29, 1949 Akron, Ohio, U.S. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | July 4, 1990 (aged 40) Miami, Florida, U.S. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Boggs was born in Akron, Ohio, and graduated from Firestone High School in 1967.[1] He graduated from Florida State University in 1971 and served as an officer in the U.S. Air Force for five years, leaving as a captain in 1976. He was an instructor at the U.S. Air Force Academy and graduated from the University of Michigan Law School in 1979.[2][3]
Boggs was inducted in the International Swimming Hall of Fame.
Diagnosed with lymphoma, he died at age 40 in 1990 in Miami, Florida.[2]
See also
- List of members of the International Swimming Hall of Fame
References
- firestonehigh.com - alumni - accessed 2012-04-05
- New York Times - obituary - Phil Boggs - 1990-07-06
- ishof.org Archived 2012-03-07 at the Wayback Machine - Phil Boggs - accessed 2012-04-06
- Wallechinsky, David (2004). The Complete Book of the Summer Olympics, Toronto: Sport Classic Books. ISBN 1-894963-34-2
External links
- Phil Boggs at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
- ISHOF.org - profile - Phil Boggs at the Wayback Machine (archived June 22, 2006)
- Seminoles.com - Florida State athletics - Hall of Fame - Phil Boggs at archive.today (archived February 2, 2013)
- 1975 World Champion - Phil Boggs on YouTube
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Phil Boggs, né le 29 décembre 1949 à Akron (Ohio) et mort le 4 juillet 1990 à Miami, est un plongeur américain.[it] Phil Boggs
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