Diving at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Men's 10 metre platform

Men's 10 metre platform at the Games of the XIV Olympiad
Medalists
Sammy Lee  United States Bruce Harlan  United States Joaquín Capilla  Mexico

Diving at the 1948 Summer Olympics
3 m springboard		men		women
10 m platform		men		women

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.

The competition was held on Tuesday August 3, on Wednesday August 4, and on Thursday August 5. 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

Rank	Diver	Points
1	Sammy Lee (USA)	130.05
2	Bruce Harlan (USA)	122.30
3	Joaquín Capilla (MEX)	113.52
4	Lennart Brunnhage (SWE)	108.62
5	Peter Heatly (GBR)	105.29
6	Thomas Christiansen (DEN)	105.22
7	Raymond Mulinghausen (FRA)	103.01
8	22x20px George Athans (CAN)	100.91
9	Rolf Stigersand (NOR)	97.93
10	22x20px Zouheir Shourbagi (SYR)	97.81
11	Louis Marchant (GBR)	96.11
12	22x20px Kamal Ali Hassan (EGY)	95.33
13	Diego Mariscal (MEX)	95.14
14	Gustavo Somohano (MEX)	91.98
15	Franz Worisch (AUT)	90.05
16	Haroldo Mariano (BRA)	90.00
17	Wilhelm Lippa (AUT)	89.04
18	Gordon Ward (GBR)	88.96
19	Ilmari Niemeläinen (FIN)	87.82
20	Guy Hernandez (FRA)	87.46
21	22x20px Geoff Mandy (RSA)	86.00
22	22x20px Rauf Abdul Seoud (EGY)	85.85
23	Willy Rist (SUI)	81.78
24	22x20px Mohamed Allam (EGY)	77.92
25	Ernst Strupler (SUI)	77.67

References

• sports-reference.com