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

Event:	Women's 10 metre platform
Games:	1948 Summer
Gold:	Vicki Draves
Goldnoc:	USA
Silver:	Patsy Elsener
Silvernoc:	USA
Bronze:	Birte Christoffersen
Bronzenoc:	DEN
Prev:	1936
Next:	1952

The women'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, held on Friday 6 August, was held from both 10 and 5 metre platforms and was split into two sets of dives:

1. Compulsory dives

Divers performed four pre-chosen dives (from different categories) – a running one-and-half somersault forward with pike, straight somersault backward (5 metre), standing straight header forward, and running straight header forward (10 metre).

1. Facultative dives

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

Fifteen divers from nine nations competed.

Results

Rank	Diver	Nation	Points
			68.87
			66.28
			66.04
4			64.59
5			62.63
6			61.07
7			59.86
8			59.54
9			56.62
10			53.95
11			53.50
12			52.31
13			51.55
14			41.88
			(39.65)

Gudrun Grömer did not finish the competition.

Sources

• www.sports-reference.com
• Web site: The Official Report of the Organising Committee for the XIV Olympiad London 1948 . 31 December 2006 . Organising Committee for the XIV Olympiad London 1948 . 1951 . pdf . Organising Committee for the XIV Olympiad London 1948 . pp.637–9.
• Web site: Diving – women's platform (London 1948) . 31 December 2006 . Herman de Wael . 7 August 2001.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Diving at the 1948 Summer Olympics: Platform, Women . OlyMADMen . 15 May 2020.