Diving at the 1952 Summer Olympics – Men's 10 metre platform

The men's 10 metre platform, also reported as high diving, was one of four diving events on the Diving at the 1952 Summer Olympics programme.[1]

Men's 10 metre platform
at the Games of the XV Olympiad
Left-right: Capilla, Lee, Haase
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Samuel Lee  United States
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Joaquín Capilla  Mexico
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Günther Haase  Germany
← 1948
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The competition was split into two phases held on different days:

  • Preliminary round (31 July) – Divers performed six voluntary dives of limited degrees of difficulty. The eight divers with the highest scores advanced to the final.
  • Final (1 August) – Divers performed four voluntary dives without any limits of difficulty. The final score was the aggregate of the preliminary and final rounds' points.

Results

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Rank Diver Nation Preliminary Final
Points Rank Points Rank Total
  Sammy Lee   United States 86.38 1 69.90 1 156.28
  Joaquín Capilla   Mexico 78.46 2 66.75 2 145.21
  Günther Haase   Germany 75.41 3 65.90 3 141.31
4 John McCormack   United States 75.26 4 63.48 5 138.77
5 Alberto Capilla Perez   Mexico 72.95 5 63.49 4 136.44
6 Rodolfo Perea   Mexico 72.88 6 55.40 6 128.28
7 Aleksandr Bakatin   Soviet Union 71.86 7 55.00 8 126.86
8 Roman Brener   Soviet Union 71.01 8 55.30 7 126.31
9 John Calhoun   United States 70.22 9 did not advance
10 Fritz Geyer   Germany 69.64 10 did not advance
11 Thomas Christiansen   Denmark 69.10 11 did not advance
12 Peter Heatly   Great Britain 67.78 12 did not advance
13 Birger Kivelä   Finland 67.31 13 did not advance
14 Ahmed Kamel Aly   Egypt 66.19 14 did not advance
15 Jacob Gjerding   Denmark 65.88 15 did not advance
16 Toivo Öhman   Sweden 65.37 16 did not advance
17 Raymond Mulinghausen   France 65.02 17 did not advance
17 Mikhail Chachba   Soviet Union 65.02 17 did not advance
19 Anthony Turner   Great Britain 64.34 19 did not advance
20 Werner Sobeck   Germany 64.27 20 did not advance
21 Francis Murphy   Australia 64.10 21 did not advance
22 Franz Worisch   Austria 63.02 22 did not advance
23 Mohamed Fakhry Abbas   Egypt 62.92 23 did not advance
24 Julius Janowsky   Austria 62.65 24 did not advance
25 Kamal Ali Hassan   Egypt 61.03 25 did not advance
26 Lamberto Mari   Italy 60.44 26 did not advance
27 Kurt Liederer   Austria 60.21 27 did not advance
28 Arie Richard Hanitzsch   Brazil 59.40 28 did not advance
29 Katsuichi Mori   Japan 58.65 29 did not advance
30 Yoav Raanan   Israel 58.15 30 did not advance
31 Heinz Schaub   Switzerland 54.40 31 did not advance

References

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  1. ^ "Diving at the 1952 Summer Olympics: Platform, Men". OlyMADMen. Retrieved 15 May 2020.

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