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Valborg Florström
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Hedvig Valborg "Valma" Florström (5 December 1878 – 18 December 1956) was a Finnish diver, who won five national championships.
She performed a diving exhibition with Ebba Gisico of Sweden at the 1908 Summer Olympics, which was the first appearance of women in Olympic aquatics.[1] This also made her the first woman in a Finnish Olympic team.
She won the Finnish national championship gold in women's platform diving in 1906, 1907, 1908, 1909, 1910 and 1911.
She represented the club Helsingfors Simsällskap,[2] where she was a board member in 1910–1912,[3] and a swimming teacher in 1901–1912.[4]
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