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]
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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:
- 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.
- 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
edit| Rank | Diver | Nation | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
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Sammy Lee |  Vereinigte Staaten |
130.05 |
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Bruce Harlan | Vereinigte Staaten |
122.30 |
 |
Joaquín Capilla |  Mexiko |
113.52 |
| 4 | Lennart Brunnhage |  Schweden |
108.62 |
| 5 | Peter Heatly |  Great Britain |
105.29 |
| 6 | Thomas Christiansen |  Dänemark |
105.22 |
| 7 | Raymond Mulinghausen |  Frankreich |
103.01 |
| 8 | George Athans |  Kanada |
100.91 |
| 9 | Rolf Stigersand |  Norwegen |
97.93 |
| 10 | Zouheir Shourbagi |  Syria |
97.81 |
| 11 | Louis Marchant | Great Britain |
96.11 |
| 12 | Kamal Ali Hassan |  Ägypten |
95.33 |
| 13 | Diego Mariscal | Mexiko |
95.14 |
| 14 | Gustavo Somohano | Mexiko |
91.98 |
| 15 | Franz Worisch |  Österreich |
90.05 |
| 16 | Haroldo Mariano |  Brasilien |
90.00 |
| 17 | Wilhelm Lippa | Österreich |
89.04 |
| 18 | Gordon Ward | Great Britain |
88.96 |
| 19 | Ilmari Niemeläinen |  Finnland |
87.82 |
| 20 | Guy Hernandez | Frankreich |
87.46 |
| 21 | Geoff Mandy |  Südafrika |
86.00 |
| 22 | Rauf Abu Al-Seoud | Ägypten |
85.85 |
| 23 | Willy Rist |  Schweiz |
81.78 |
| 24 | Mohamed Abdel Khalek Allam | Ägypten |
77.92 |
| 25 | Ernst Strupler | Schweiz |
77.67 |
References
edit- ^ 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.
Sources
edit- Organising Committee for the XIV Olympiad London 1948 (1951). "The Official Report of the Organising Committee for the XIV Olympiad London 1948" (pdf). Organising Committee for the XIV Olympiad London 1948. pp. pp.637–9. Retrieved 31 December 2006.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) [dead link] - Herman de Wael (26 January 2001). "Diving - men's platform (London 1948)". Retrieved 31 December 2006.