Diving at the 1952 Summer Olympics – Women's 10 metre platform explained

Event:	Women's 10 metre platform
Games:	1952 Summer
Gold:	Pat McCormick
Goldnoc:	USA
Silver:	Paula Jean Myers
Silvernoc:	USA
Bronze:	Juno Stover-Irwin
Bronzenoc:	USA
Prev:	1948
Next:	1956

The women's 10 metre platform, also called high diving, was one of four diving events on the Diving at the 1952 Summer Olympics programme.^[1]

The competition was held from both 10 and 5 metre platforms and was split into two phases on different days:

• Preliminary round (1 August) – Divers performed four voluntary dives of limited degrees of difficulty. The eight divers with the highest scores advanced to the final.
• Final (2 August) – Divers performed two voluntary dives without any limits of difficulty. The final score was the aggregate of the preliminary and final rounds' points.

Results

Rank	Diver	Nation	Preliminary		Final
			Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Total
			51.25	1	28.12	1	79.37
			44.22	2	27.41	2	71.63
			43.60	3	26.89	3	70.49
4			43.59	4	25.49	4	69.08
5			43.23	6	19.96	5	63.19
6			43.26	5	17.83	6	61.09
7			43.16	7	17.60	7	60.76
8			40.67	8	16.83	8	57.50
9			40.26	9	did not advance
10			39.76	10	did not advance
11			36.24	11	did not advance
12			35.39	12	did not advance
13			33.33	13	did not advance
14			32.35	14	did not advance
15			30.04	15	did not advance

Sources

• Web site: The Official Report of the Organising Committee for the XV Olympiad Helsinki 1952 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080411091045/http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1952/OR1952.pdf . dead . 11 April 2008 . 1 January 2007 . The Organising Committee for the XV Olympiad Helsinki 1952 . 1955 . pdf . The Organising Committee for the XV Olympiad Helsinki 1952 . p. 598 .
• Web site: Diving - women's platform (Helsinki 1952) . 1 January 2007 . Herman de Wael . 7 August 2001.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Diving at the 1952 Summer Olympics: Platform, Women . OlyMADMen . 15 May 2020.