Poynton, Dorothy (Mrs. Hill)
Diving
b. July 17, 1915, Salt Lake City, UT
One of only three woman to win four Olympic medals in diving and one of only two to win diving medals at three different Olympics, Poynton was a quick learner who placed third in the national indoor 3-meter springboard and the platform event in 1927, before her twelfth birthday.
She was barely thirteen when she won her first Olympic medal, a silver in the 1928 springboard dive. She won gold medals in the springboard in 1932 and 1936 and a bronze in the 1936 springboard event.
Poynton won the national outdoor platform championship from 1933 through 1935; the indoor 1-meter springboard in 1932 and 1935; and the indoor 3-meter in 1933 and 1934. She retired from competition when she was only twenty-one. The 5-foot-1, 112-pound Poynton later gave exhibitions and operated an aquatic club in Los Angeles.