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Aileen Riggin Soule (May 2 1906 – October 19 2002) was an American competition swimmer and diver and Olympic champion.Born in Newport Rhode Island she learned to swim at the age of 6 in Manila Bay and she first started diving in 1919. She competed at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp Belgium in the women’s springboard diving and won a gold medal becoming America’s youngest ever gold medallist at that time later surpassed by Marjorie Gestring.
