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

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

Women's 10 metre platform
at the Games of the XV Olympiad
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Pat McCormick  United States
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Paula Jean Myers  United States
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Juno Stover-Irwin  United States
← 1948
1956 →

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

  • Preliminary round (1 August) – Divers performed four voluntary dives of limited degrees of difficulty. The eight divers with the highest scores advanced to the final.
  • Final (2 August) – Divers performed two voluntary dives without any limits of difficulty. The final score was the aggregate of the preliminary and final rounds' points.

Results edit

Rank Diver Nation Preliminary Final
Points Rank Points Rank Total
  Pat McCormick   United States 51.25 1 28.12 1 79.37
  Paula Jean Myers-Pope   United States 44.22 2 27.41 2 71.63
  Juno Stover-Irwin   United States 43.60 3 26.89 3 70.49
4 Nicolle Pellissard   France 43.59 4 25.49 4 69.08
5 Ann Long   Great Britain 43.23 6 19.96 5 63.19
6 Tatyana Vereina   Soviet Union 43.26 5 17.83 6 61.09
7 Diana Spencer   Great Britain 43.16 7 17.60 7 60.76
8 Yevgeniya Bogdanovskaya   Soviet Union 40.67 8 16.83 8 57.50
9 Eva Pfarrhofer   Austria 40.26 9 did not advance
10 Carlota Rios   Mexico 39.76 10 did not advance
11 Masami Miyamoto   Japan 36.24 11 did not advance
12 Valerie Lloyd-Chandos   Great Britain 35.39 12 did not advance
13 Irma Lozano   Mexico 33.33 13 did not advance
14 Ninel Krutova   Soviet Union 32.35 14 did not advance
15 Ferdinanda Martini-Pautasso   Switzerland 30.04 15 did not advance

References edit

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

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