Antonio Gerardo Mariscal Abascal (2 July 1915 – 29 October 2010) was a lawyer and Olympic-level diver from

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, who is considered by the

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(COM) as a pioneer of Mexican sport. In 1931, he won the National Diving Championship. He and his older brothers

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and

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achieved Olympic history at the 1932 Olympics. They are the only three brothers to have competed in the same diving event. Effective with the

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, the IOC has restricted that a country can have only two representatives in any single diving event. At the 1932 Olympics, he finished 12th in the 3m Springboard. His younger brother

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competed at the 1948 Olympics. At the

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, he won the 5m Platform event and was second in 3m Springboard. He served as president of the Mexican Swimming Federation from 1960–66, and is among the founders of bodies that oversee aquatic sports in the Americas ( ASUA) and Central America/Caribbean (

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). In 1988 he received a Silver

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award from the International Olympic Committee. In 2008, he was bestowed a permanent COM membership.

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* * * 1915 births 2010 deaths Mexican male divers Olympic divers for Mexico Divers at the 1932 Summer Olympics Recipients of the Olympic Order Divers from Mexico City {{Mexico-acrobatics-diving-bio-stub