Diving at the 1956 Summer Olympics – Women's 10 metre platform

The women's 10 metre platform, also reported as high diving, was one of four diving events on the Diving at the 1956 Summer Olympics programme.[1]

Women's 10 metre platform
at the Games of the XVI Olympiad
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Pat McCormick  United States
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Juno Stover-Irwin  United States
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Paula Jean Myers-Pope  United States
← 1952
1960 →

The competition was held on both 10 and 5 metre platforms and split into two phases on different days:

  • Preliminary round (6 December) – Divers performed three voluntary dives of limited degrees of difficulty and one voluntary dive without limits. The twelve divers with the highest scores advanced to the final.
  • Final (7 December) – Divers performed two 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
  Pat McCormick   United States 51.28 4 33.57 1 84.85
  Juno Stover-Irwin   United States 50.81 5 30.83 2 81.64
  Paula Jean Myers-Pope   United States 52.96 1 28.62 4 81.58
4 Nicolle Darrigrand   France 50.02 7 28.78 3 78.80
5 Tatyana Karakashyants   Soviet Union 52.19 3 24.76 7 76.95
6 Lyubov Shigalova   Soviet Union 49.22 8 27.18 5 76.40
7 Ann Long   Great Britain 49.15 9 27.00 6 76.15
8 Birte Christoffersen   Sweden 50.48 6 24.73 8 75.21
9 Raisa Gorokhovskaya   Soviet Union 52.64 2 21.20 12 73.84
10 Kanoko Tsutani   Japan 48.45 10 22.50 10 70.95
11 Hatsuko Hirose   Japan 46.15 12 23.56 9 69.71
12 Charmain Welsh   Great Britain 46.55 11 22.50 10 69.05
13 Eva Pfarrhofer   Austria 46.02 13 did not advance
14 Barbara McAulay   Australia 45.67 14 did not advance
15 Rosalyn Barton   Australia 41.96 15 did not advance
16 Mary Proença   Brazil 36.71 16 did not advance
17 Hanna Laursen   Denmark 35.39 17 did not advance
18 Adele Price   Australia 35.28 18 did not advance

References

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  1. ^ "Diving at the 1956 Summer Olympics: Platform, Women". OlyMADMen. Retrieved 16 May 2020.

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