Diving at the 1956 Summer Olympics

Diving at the Games of the XVI Olympiad
Venue	Melbourne Sports and Entertainment Centre
Dates	30 November 1956 (1956-11-30) through 7 December 1956 (1956-12-07)
No. of events	4
Competitors	60 from 16 nations
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At the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, four diving events were contested. ^[1]

Medal summary

The events are labelled as 3 metre springboard and 10 metre platform by the International Olympic Committee, ^[2] and appeared on the 1956 Official Report as springboard diving and high diving, respectively. ^[3]

Men

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
3 metre springboard details	Bob Clotworthy   United States	Donald Harper   United States	Joaquín Capilla   Mexico
10 metre platform details	Joaquín Capilla   Mexico	Gary Tobian   United States	Richard Connor   United States

Women

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
3 metre springboard details	Pat McCormick   United States	Jeanne Stunyo   United States	Irene MacDonald   Canada
10 metre platform details	Pat McCormick   United States	Juno Stover-Irwin   United States	Paula Jean Myers-Pope   United States

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States  (USA)	3	4	2	9
2	Mexico  (MEX)	1	0	1	2
3	Canada  (CAN)	0	0	1	1
Totals (3 entries)		4	4	4	12

Participating nations

•   Australia  (10)
•   Austria  (1)
•   Brazil  (2)
•   Canada  (2)
•   Chile  (1)
•   Denmark  (2)
•   Finland  (1)
•   France  (2)
•   Great Britain  (5)
•   Hungary  (2)
•   Israel  (1)
•   Japan  (4)
•   Mexico  (3)
•   Soviet Union  (11)
•   Sweden  (1)
•   United States  (9)

See also

• Diving at the 1955 Pan American Games

Notes

1. "Diving at the 1956 Summer Olympics". OlyMADMen. Retrieved 16 May 2020.^{[ permanent dead link ‍]}
2. IOC medals database
3. The Organising Committee of the XVI Olympiad Melbourne 1956, pp. 591, 594.

References

• "Olympic Medal Winners". International Olympic Committee . Retrieved 22 November 2006.
• The Organizing Committee of the XVI Olympiad, Melbourne, 1956 (1958). "The Official Report of the Organizing Committee of the XVI Olympiad Melbourne 1956" (PDF). The Organizing Committee of the XVI Olympiad, Melbourne, 1956. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 September 2008. Retrieved 2 January 2007.