Diving coach's pike part winning silver (5)

I believe the answer is:

fagin

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'diving coach's pike part winning silver' is the definition.
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'part winning silver' is the wordplay.
'part' becomes 'fin' (fin is a kind of part).
'winning' means one lot of letters goes inside another (some letters win or obtain others).
'silver' becomes 'Ag' (Ag is the chemical symbol for silver).
'fin' enclosing 'ag' is 'FAGIN'.

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(Other definitions for fagin that I've seen before include "Dickensian villain" , "Oliver Twist villain" , "Gang leader (Oliver Twist)" , "Gang-leader" , "Organiser of dips" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.

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