Diving at the 1932 Summer Olympics – Women's 10 metre platform explained

Event:Women's 10 metre platform
Games:1932 Summer
Gold:Dorothy Poynton-Hill
Goldnoc:USA
Silver:Georgia Coleman
Silvernoc:USA
Bronze:Marion Roper
Bronzenoc:USA
Prev:1928
Next:1936

The women's 10 metre platform, also reported as high diving, was one of four diving events on the diving at the 1932 Summer Olympics programme. The competition was actually held from both 10 metre and 5 metre platforms. Divers performed a total of four compulsory dives – running plain header forward, standing backward spring and forward dive with pike (10 metre), standing forward plain header, running forward plain header (5 metre). The competition was held on Friday 12 August 1932. Seven divers from five nations competed.[1]

Results

Since there were only seven entries, instead of groups, a direct final was contested.

Final

Place Diver Nation Score
40.26
35.56
35.22
4 34.52
5 31.96
6 31.36
7 26.76

Sources

Notes and References

  1. Diving at the 1932 Los Angeles Summer Games: Women's Platform . 13 May 2020 . 11 November 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20121111152201/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1932/DIV/womens-platform.html . dead .