Barbara Sue Gilders (later ''Dudeck'', born July 23, 1937) is a retired American diver. She competed in the 3 m

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at the 1956 Summer Olympics and 1959 Pan American Games and finished fourth and third, respectively. Coached by four-time Olympic medalist, Clarence Pinkston, Gilders entered the Olympics as the 1956 AAU champion, and Olympic Trials silver medalist. Later she won the AAU indoor titles in the one-meter (1958) and three-meter springboard (1959). In June 1959, she won the Pan American Games trials; later that summer, in what would be her final international competition, Gilders won a bronze medal at the Pan American Games.

Personal life

Gilders is the younger sister of

Fletcher Gilders Fletcher Gilders (1931–1999) was a Detroit native who won fame as a talented multi-sport athlete for the Colts of Northwestern High School (Michigan), Northwestern High School and the Buckeyes of Ohio State University. Following a stellar athleti ...

, a two-time

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diving champion at

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. Fletcher was also a Hall of Fame Diving Coach for

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and three-time

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Coach of the Year at

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. Gilders married John Dudeck, a former swimmer for Michigan State University. A

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record holder and two-time Big Ten titlist in the 100-yard breaststroke (1953 and 54), he was a nine-time All-American for the Spartans (1953–55). Their daughter Diane Dudeck won the national indoor title in the one-meter springboard in 1981; she was also a 1984

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References

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