Antonio Gerardo Mariscal Abascal[a] (2 July 1915[1] – 29 October 2010)[2] was a lawyer and Olympic-level diver from Mexico, who is considered by the Mexican Olympic Committee (COM) as a pioneer of Mexican sport.

Effective with the 1948 Summer Olympics, the IOC has restricted that a country can have only two representatives in any single diving event.

[3] At the 1935 Central American and Caribbean Games, he won the 5m Platform event and was second in 3m Springboard.

[citation needed] He served as president of the Mexican Swimming Federation from 1960–66, and is among the founders of bodies that oversee aquatic sports in the Americas (ASUA) and Central America/Caribbean (CCCAN).

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