Diving at the 1956 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 1956 Summer Olympics programme.[1]

Men's 10 metre platform
at the Games of the XVI Olympiad
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Joaquín Capilla  Mexico
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Gary Tobian  United States
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Richard Connor  United States
← 1952
1960 →

The competition was split into two phases held on different days:

  • Preliminary round (5 December) – Divers performed six voluntary dives of limited degrees of difficulty. The twelve divers with the highest scores advanced to the final.
  • Final (6 December) – 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
  Joaquín Capilla   Mexico 78.68 2 73.76 2 152.44
  Gary Tobian   United States 76.77 4 75.64 1 152.41
  Richard Connor   United States 80.24 1 69.55 4 149.79
4 József Gerlach   Hungary 77.77 3 71.48 3 149.25
5 Roman Brener   Soviet Union 76.56 5 66.39 5 142.95
6 William Farrell   United States 75.07 6 64.05 7 139.12
7 Ferenc Siák   Hungary 72.85 9 65.98 6 138.83
8 Mikhail Chachba   Soviet Union 73.02 8 61.50 8 134.52
9 Alberto Capilla   Mexico 74.18 7 58.56 9 132.74
10 Juan Botella   Mexico 69.39 12 56.06 10 125.45
11 Yutaka Baba   Japan 70.76 10 52.93 11 123.69
12 Ryo Mabuchi   Japan 69.76 11 50.44 12 120.20
13 Gennady Galkin   Soviet Union 68.92 13 did not advance
14 Peter Tarsey   Great Britain 68.34 14 did not advance
15 William Patrick   Canada 67.71 15 did not advance
16 Helge Vasenius   Finland 66.63 16 did not advance
17 Francis Murphy   Australia 66.29 17 did not advance
18 William Tully   Australia 65.49 18 did not advance
19 Günther Mund Borgs   Chile 63.01 19 did not advance
20 Roy Walsh   Great Britain 62.56 20 did not advance
21 Ray Cann   Great Britain 60.08 20 did not advance
22 Barry Holmes   Australia 58.01 22 did not advance

References

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

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