Diving at the 1936 Summer Olympics – Women's 10 metre platform explained

Event:	Women's 10 metre platform
Games:	1936 Summer
Gold:	Dorothy Poynton-Hill
Goldnoc:	USA
Silver:	Velma Dunn
Silvernoc:	USA
Bronze:	Käthe Köhler
Bronzenoc:	GER
Prev:	1932
Next:	1948

The women's 10 metre platform, also reported as high diving, was one of four diving events on the diving at the 1936 Summer Olympics programme.^{[1] [2]}

The competition was actually held from both the 10 metre and 5 metre platforms and consisted of one set of dives:

• Compulsory dives (Thursday, 13 August)

Divers performed four pre-chosen dives – a running straight header forward, standing straight somersault backward (5 metre), a running straight header forward and a standing straight header forward (10 metre).

Results

Place	Diver	Nation	Score
			33.93
			33.63
			33.43
4			32.53
5			30.47
6			30.24
7			30.16
8			29.90
9			29.67
10			29.20
11			28.66
12			28.62
13			28.40
14			28.10
15			27.54
16			27.16
17			27.08
18			26.62
19			26.52
20			25.56
21			25.04
22			24.30

Sources

• Web site: The XIth Olympic Games, Berlin 1936 - Official Report, Volume II . https://web.archive.org/web/20070709225735/http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1936/1936v2sum.pdf . dead . 9 July 2007 . 31 December 2006 . Organisationskomitee für die XI. Olympiade Berlin 1936 e.V. . 1937 . pdf . Wilhelm Limpert, Berlin, S.W. 68 . pp.343–4 .
• Web site: Diving - women's platform (Berlin 1936) . 31 December 2006 . Herman de Wael . 7 August 2001.

Notes and References

1. Diving at the 1936 Berlin Summer Games: Women's Platform . 14 May 2020.
2. Olympedia – Platform, Women . 2022-07-20.