Sammy Lee was the first Asian American athlete to become a gold medalist.
Lee was the first Asian American man to win Olympic gold at the 1948 Summer London Games, alongside fellow Asian American diver Draves. He was also the first man to win back-to-back gold medals in Olympic diving. Despite facing intense racism and discrimination as a Korean American, the diver found much success in diving and would later go on to become an ear, nose and throat doctor.
