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IN BRIEF : ‘20s Diving Champ Betty Becker Dies

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<i> From Times wire service</i> s

Betty Becker Pinkston Campbell, a two-time Olympic diving champion in the 1920s, died of cancer and congestive heart failure Thursday in St. John Hospital.

As Betty Becker, she won the Olympic springboard diving title in 1924 in Paris, the games later dramatized in the Academy Award-winning film “Chariots of Fire.”

After the Olympics, she married another diver, Clarence Pinkston. They had twins and became the first couple to win gold medals in the same sport in 1928. She won the platform championship that year.

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Pinkston died in 1961 and three years later she married Harvey Campbell. He died in 1965.

Mrs. Campbell, who lived in Grosse Pointe Farms, Mich., and Palm Beach, Fla., was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame and the Helms Athletic Hall of Fame in Los Angeles.

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