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

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]

Men's 10 metre platform
at the Games of the XIV Olympiad
Medalists
Sammy Lee  United States
Bruce Harlan  United States
Joaquín Capilla  Mexico

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

RankDiverNationPoints
Sammy Lee United States130.05
Bruce Harlan United States122.30
Joaquín Capilla Mexico113.52
4Lennart Brunnhage Sweden108.62
5Peter Heatly Great Britain105.29
6Thomas Christiansen Denmark105.22
7Raymond Mulinghausen France103.01
8George Athans Canada100.91
9Rolf Stigersand Norway97.93
10Zouheir Shourbagi Syria97.81
11Louis Marchant Great Britain96.11
12Kamal Ali Hassan Egypt95.33
13Diego Mariscal Mexico95.14
14Gustavo Somohano Mexico91.98
15Franz Worisch Austria90.05
16Haroldo Mariano Brazil90.00
17Wilhelm Lippa Austria89.04
18Gordon Ward Great Britain88.96
19Ilmari Niemeläinen Finland87.82
20Guy Hernandez France87.46
21Geoff Mandy South Africa86.00
22Rauf Abu Al-Seoud Egypt85.85
23Willy Rist Switzerland81.78
24Mohamed Abdel Khalek Allam Egypt77.92
25Ernst Strupler Switzerland77.67

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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