Full Name: | Phillip George Boggs |
Birth Date: | 29 December 1949 |
Birth Place: | Akron, Ohio, U.S. |
Death Place: | Miami, Florida, U.S. |
Phillip ("Phil") George Boggs (December 29, 1949 - July 4, 1990) was a diver and Olympic gold medalist from the United States; he won the 3 m springboard event at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada.
Boggs was born in Akron, Ohio, and graduated from Firestone High School in 1967.[1] He graduated from Florida State University in 1971 and served as an officer in the U.S. Air Force for five years, leaving as a captain in 1976. He was an instructor at the U.S. Air Force Academy and graduated from the University of Michigan Law School in 1979.[2] [3]
Boggs was inducted in the International Swimming Hall of Fame. Diagnosed with lymphoma, he died at age 40 in 1990 in Miami, Florida.[2]