Diving at the 1936 Summer Olympics – Men's 10 metre platform

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The men's 10 metre platform, also reported as high diving, was one of four diving events on the diving at the 1936 Summer Olympics programme. For the first time, all dives were made exclusively from the 10 metre platform.[1]

Men's 10 metre platform
at the Games of the XI Olympiad
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Marshall Wayne  United States
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Elbert Root  United States
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Hermann Stork  Germany
← 1932
1948 →

The competition was split into two sets of dives on separate days:

  1. Compulsory dives (Friday, 14 August)
    Divers performed four pre-chosen dives – a standing straight header forward, running straight header forward, standing straight somersault backward, and standing straight isander-half gainer.
  2. Facultative dives (Saturday, 15 August)
    Divers performed four dives of their choice (from different categories and different from the compulsory).

Twenty-six divers from 15 nations competed.

Results

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Rank Diver Nation Score
  Marshall Wayne   United States 113.58
  Elbert Root   United States 110.60
  Hermann Stork   Germany 110.31
4 Erhard Weiß   Germany 110.15
5 Frank Kurtz   United States 108.61
6 Tsuneo Shibahara   Japan 107.40
7 Siegfried Viebahn   Germany 105.00
8 Tomio Koyanagi   Japan 94.54
9 Doug Tomalin   Great Britain 94.14
10 Carlo Dibiasi   Italy 90.66
11 László Hódi   Hungary 89.25
12 Rauf Abu Al-Seoud   Egypt 88.78
13 Ibrahim Khalil   Egypt 88.08
14 Ilmari Niemeläinen   Finland 87.60
15 Ron Masters   Australia 86.95
16 František Leikert   Czechoslovakia 86.72
17 Ferrero Marianetti   Italy 82.78
18 László Hidvégi   Hungary 80.14
19 Václav Kacl   Czechoslovakia 80.04
20 Branko Ziherl   Yugoslavia 78.28
21 Sam Melberg   Norway 77.76
22 Franco Ferraris   Italy 77.60
23 Gösta Ölander   Sweden 76.84
24 Jesús Flores   Mexico 73.28
25 George Athans   Canada 70.06
26 Josef Nesvadba   Czechoslovakia 60.02

References

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  1. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Diving at the 1936 Berlin Summer Games: Men's Platform". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 13 May 2020.

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