Phil Boggs

Medal record
Men's diving
Competitor for the  United States
Olympic Games
Gold 1976 Montreal 3 m Springboard
World Championships (LC)
Gold 1973 Belgrad 3 m springboard
Gold 1975 Cali 3 m springboard
Gold 1978 Berlin 3 m springboard
Pan American Games
Silver 1975 Mexico City 3 m springboard
Silver 1979 San Juan 3 m springboard
Bronze 1979 San Juan 10 m platform

Phillip ("Phil") George Boggs (December 29, 1949 – July 4, 1990) was a diver from the United States, who won the gold medal in the springboard event at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada.

Boggs was a lieutenant in the United States Air Force. Boggs attended Florida State University and was a law student at the University of Michigan.

In 1985 he was inducted in the International Swimming Hall of Fame. He died of lymphoma in Miami, Florida, in 1990, aged forty.

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