Karen Marie LaFace (born January 29, 1966, in

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Pittsburgh ( ) is a city in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, United States, and the county seat of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Allegheny County. It is the most populous city in both Allegheny County and Wester ...

) is a retired female diver from the

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. She competed for the US at the

1992 Summer Olympics The 1992 Summer Olympics ( es, Juegos Olímpicos de Verano de 1992, ca, Jocs Olímpics d'estiu de 1992), officially known as the Games of the XXV Olympiad ( es, Juegos de la XXV Olimpiada, ca, Jocs de la XXV Olimpíada) and commonly known as ...

, finishing in ninth place in the Women's 3m Springboard event.sports-reference
/ref> LaFace won the gold medal in the same event a year earlier at the

1991 Pan American Games The 1991 Pan American Games were held in Havana, Cuba from August 2 to August 18, 1991. There were 4,519 athletes from 39 countries of the Pan American Sports Organization, PASO community, with events in 33 different sports. The main stadium was ...

. LaFace was state diving champion in high school at the PIAA (Pennsylvania) Meet and competed in the National Sports Festival in Indianapolis, Indiana, in the early 1980s.

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1966 births Living people Divers at the 1992 Summer Olympics Olympic divers for the United States Sportspeople from Pittsburgh American female divers Pan American Games gold medalists for the United States in diving Divers at the 1991 Pan American Games Medalists at the 1991 Pan American Games 21st-century American women {{US-acrobatics-diving-bio-stub