Juan Álvaro José Gaxiola Robles (26 January 1937 – 18 August 2003) was a Mexican diver. He competed at the 1960, 1964 and 1968 Olympics in the 3 m springboard and 10 m platform and won a silver medal in the platform in 1968, in

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. He also finished fourth in the springboard in 1960. Gaxiola lived for many years in the United States and returned to Mexico only in the 1960s. He competed in diving for Ann Arbor High School and then for the

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, where he studied civil engineering. Gaxiola died of cancer in his native Guadalajara, aged 66. He was survived by wife Sylvia Wydell and three children, Ingi, Michelle, and Annika.Fallece el clavadista Álvaro Gaxiola
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