Diving at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Men's 10 metre platform explained

Event:Men's 10 metre platform
Games:1948 Summer
Gold:Sammy Lee
Goldnoc:USA
Silver:Bruce Harlan
Silvernoc:USA
Bronze:Joaquín Capilla
Bronzenoc:MEX
Prev:1936
Next:1952

The men's 10 metre platform, also reported as highboard diving, was one of four diving events on the diving at the 1948 Summer Olympics programme.[1]

The competition was held on Tuesday 3 August, on Wednesday 4 August, and on Thursday 5 August. It split into two sets of dives:

  1. Compulsory dives

Divers performed four pre-chosen dives (from different categories) – a running straight header forward, straight somersault backward, running straight mollberg (gainer) reverse somersault, and armstand with forward cut through.

  1. Facultative dives

Divers performed four dives of their choice (from different categories and different from the compulsory).

Twenty-five divers from 15 nations competed.

Results

Rank Diver Nation Points
130.05
122.30
113.52
4 108.62
5 105.29
6 105.22
7 103.01
8 100.91
9 97.93
10 97.81
11 96.11
12 95.33
13 95.14
14 91.98
15 90.05
16 90.00
17 89.04
18 88.96
19 87.82
20 87.46
21 86.00
22 85.85
23 81.78
24 77.92
25 77.67

Sources

Notes and References

  1. Diving at the 1948 London Summer Games: Men's Platform . https://web.archive.org/web/20200418132257/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1948/DIV/mens-platform.html . dead . 18 April 2020 . 14 May 2020.