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
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
← 1936
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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

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Rank Diver Nation Points
  Sammy Lee   United States 130.05
  Bruce Harlan   United States 122.30
  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

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  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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