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

Men's 10 metre platform
at the Games of the XIV Olympiad
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Sammy Lee  United States
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Bruce Harlan  United States
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Joaquín Capilla  Mexico
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Diving at the
1948 Summer Olympics
3 m springboardmenwomen
10 m platformmenwomen

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.
  2. 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
1st place, gold medalist(s) Sammy Lee  United States 130.05
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Bruce Harlan  United States 122.30
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Joaquín Capilla  Mexico 113.52
4 Lennart Brunnhage  Sweden 108.62
5 Peter Heatly  Great Britain 105.29
6 Thomas Christiansen  Denmark 105.22
7 Raymond Mulinghausen  France 103.01
8 George Athans  Canada 100.91
9 Rolf Stigersand  Norway 97.93
10 Zouheir Shourbagi  Syria 97.81
11 Louis Marchant  Great Britain 96.11
12 Kamal Ali Hassan  Egypt 95.33
13 Diego Mariscal  Mexico 95.14
14 Gustavo Somohano  Mexico 91.98
15 Franz Worisch  Austria 90.05
16 Haroldo Mariano  Brazil 90.00
17 Wilhelm Lippa  Austria 89.04
18 Gordon Ward  Great Britain 88.96
19 Ilmari Niemeläinen  Finland 87.82
20 Guy Hernandez  France 87.46
21 Geoff Mandy  South Africa 86.00
22 Rauf Abu Al-Seoud  Egypt 85.85
23 Willy Rist  Switzerland 81.78
24 Mohamed Abdel Khalek Allam  Egypt 77.92
25 Ernst Strupler  Switzerland 77.67

References

  1. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Diving at the 1948 London Summer Games: Men's Platform". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 14 May 2020.

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