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

Men's 10 metre platform
at the Games of the XIV Olympiad
Medalists
   United States
   United States
   Mexico
Diving at the
1948 Summer Olympics
3 m springboard   men   women
10 m platform   men   women

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.

The competition was held on Tuesday August 3, on Wednesday August 4, and on Thursday August 5. 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 Points
1st, gold medalist(s)  Sammy Lee (USA) 130.05
2nd, silver medalist(s)  Bruce Harlan (USA) 122.30
3rd, bronze medalist(s)  Joaquín Capilla (MEX) 113.52
4  Lennart Brunnhage (SWE) 108.62
5  Peter Heatly (GBR) 105.29
6  Thomas Christiansen (DEN) 105.22
7  Raymond Mulinghausen (FRA) 103.01
8  George Athans (CAN) 100.91
9  Rolf Stigersand (NOR) 97.93
10  Zouheir Shourbagi (SYR) 97.81
11  Louis Marchant (GBR) 96.11
12  Kamal Ali Hassan (EGY) 95.33
13  Diego Mariscal (MEX) 95.14
14  Gustavo Somohano (MEX) 91.98
15  Franz Worisch (AUT) 90.05
16  Haroldo Mariano (BRA) 90.00
17  Wilhelm Lippa (AUT) 89.04
18  Gordon Ward (GBR) 88.96
19  Ilmari Niemeläinen (FIN) 87.82
20  Guy Hernandez (FRA) 87.46
21  Geoff Mandy (RSA) 86.00
22  Rauf Abdul Seoud (EGY) 85.85
23  Willy Rist (SUI) 81.78
24  Mohamed Allam (EGY) 77.92
25  Ernst Strupler (SUI) 77.67

References

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