Diving at the 1956 Summer Olympics – Men's 10 metre platform explained

Event:	Men's 10 metre platform
Games:	1956 Summer
Gold:	Joaquín Capilla
Goldnoc:	MEX
Silver:	Gary Tobian
Silvernoc:	USA
Bronze:	Richard Connor
Bronzenoc:	USA
Prev:	1952
Next:	1960

The men's 10 metre platform, also reported as high diving, was one of four diving events on the Diving at the 1956 Summer Olympics programme.^[1]

The competition was split into two phases held on different days:

• Preliminary round (5 December) – Divers performed six voluntary dives of limited degrees of difficulty. The twelve divers with the highest scores advanced to the final.
• Final (6 December) – Divers performed four 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
			78.68	2	73.76	2	152.44
			76.77	4	75.64	1	152.41
			80.24	1	69.55	4	149.79
4			77.77	3	71.48	3	149.25
5			76.56	5	66.39	5	142.95
6			75.07	6	64.05	7	139.12
7			72.85	9	65.98	6	138.83
8			73.02	8	61.50	8	134.52
9			74.18	7	58.56	9	132.74
10			69.39	12	56.06	10	125.45
11			70.76	10	52.93	11	123.69
12			69.76	11	50.44	12	120.20
13			68.92	13	did not advance
14			68.34	14	did not advance
15			67.71	15	did not advance
16			66.63	16	did not advance
17			66.29	17	did not advance
18			65.49	18	did not advance
19			63.01	19	did not advance
20			62.56	20	did not advance
21			60.08	20	did not advance
22			58.01	22	did not advance

Sources

• Web site: The Official Report of the Organizing Committee of the XVI Olympiad Melbourne 1956 . 2 January 2007 . The Organizing Committee of the XV Olympiad, Melbourne, 1956 . 1958 . The Organizing Committee of the XV Olympiad, Melbourne, 1956 . p. 609 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080912181829/http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1956/OR1956.pdf . 12 September 2008 .
• Web site: Diving - men's platform (Melbourne 1956) . 2 January 2007 . Herman de Wael . 26 January 2001.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Diving at the 1956 Summer Olympics: Platform, Men . OlyMADMen . 16 May 2020.