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

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Women's 10 metre platform
at the Games of the XIV Olympiad
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg Vicki Draves US flag 48 stars.svg  United States
Silver medal icon.svg Patsy Elsener US flag 48 stars.svg  United States
Bronze medal icon.svg Birte Christoffersen Flag of Denmark.svg  Denmark
  1936
1952  

The women'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]

The competition, held on Friday 6 August, was held from both 10 and 5 metre platforms and was split into two sets of dives:

  1. Compulsory dives
    Divers performed four pre-chosen dives (from different categories) – a running one-and-half somersault forward with pike, straight somersault backward (5 metre), standing straight header forward, and running straight header forward (10 metre).
  2. Facultative dives
    Divers performed two dives of their choice (from different categories and different from the compulsory).

Fifteen divers from nine nations competed.

Results

RankDiverNationPoints
Gold medal icon.svg Vicki Draves US flag 48 stars.svg  United States 68.87
Silver medal icon.svg Patsy Elsener US flag 48 stars.svg  United States 66.28
Bronze medal icon.svg Birte Christoffersen Flag of Denmark.svg  Denmark 66.04
4 Alma Staudinger Flag of Austria.svg  Austria 64.59
5 Juno Stover-Irwin US flag 48 stars.svg  United States 62.63
6 Nicolle Péllissard Flag of France.svg  France 61.07
7 Eva Petersén Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden 59.86
8 Inge Beeken Flag of Denmark.svg  Denmark 59.54
9 Irén Zságot Flag of Hungary (1946-1949, 1956-1957).svg  Hungary 56.62
10 Margaret Bisbrown Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain 53.95
11 Denise Newman Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain 53.50
12 Maire Hider Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain 52.31
13 Inger Nordbø Flag of Norway.svg  Norway 51.55
14 Rosa Gutiérrez Flag of Mexico (1934-1968).svg  Mexico 41.88
Gudrun Grömer Flag of Austria.svg  Austria (39.65)

Gudrun Grömer did not finish the competition.

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References

  1. "Diving at the 1948 Summer Olympics: Platform, Women". OlyMADMen. Retrieved 15 May 2020.

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