KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Richard Beauchamp was born in Leavenworth in 1901.
By age 19, he had enlisted in the U.S. Navy and made the U.S. team in plain high diving at the 1920 Antwerp Olympics.
Plain high diving consisted of four dives, a standing dive and a running dive from both the 5- and 10-meter platforms.
Beauchamp didn’t make the Olympic final.
He returned to the Kansas City area, where he died at age 74 in Weston, Missouri.
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