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

Event:	Women's 10 metre platform
Games:	1956 Summer
Gold:	Pat McCormick
Goldnoc:	USA
Silver:	Juno Stover-Irwin
Silvernoc:	USA
Bronze:	Paula Jean Myers-Pope
Bronzenoc:	USA
Prev:	1952
Next:	1960

The women'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 held on both 10 and 5 metre platforms and split into two phases on different days:

• Preliminary round (6 December) – Divers performed three voluntary dives of limited degrees of difficulty and one voluntary dive without limits. The twelve divers with the highest scores advanced to the final.
• Final (7 December) – 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
			51.28	4	33.57	1	84.85
			50.81	5	30.83	2	81.64
			52.96	1	28.62	4	81.58
4			50.02	7	28.78	3	78.80
5			52.19	3	24.76	7	76.95
6			49.22	8	27.18	5	76.40
7			49.15	9	27.00	6	76.15
8			50.48	6	24.73	8	75.21
9			52.64	2	21.20	12	73.84
10			48.45	10	22.50	10	70.95
11			46.15	12	23.56	9	69.71
12			46.55	11	22.50	10	69.05
13			46.02	13	did not advance
14			45.67	14	did not advance
15			41.96	15	did not advance
16			36.71	16	did not advance
17			35.39	17	did not advance
18			35.28	18	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. 622 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080912181829/http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1956/OR1956.pdf . 12 September 2008 .
• Web site: Diving - women's platform (Melbourne 1956) . 2 January 2007 . Herman de Wael . 7 August 2001.

Notes and References

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