Diving at the 1956 Summer Olympics – Men's 10 metre platform

Men's 10 metre platform at the Games of the XVI Olympiad
Medalists
Joaquín Capilla   Mexico Gary Tobian   United States Richard Connor   United States
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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]

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

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	21	did not advance
22	Barry Holmes	Australia	58.01	22	did not advance

References

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

Sources

• The Organizing Committee of the XV Olympiad, Melbourne, 1956 (1958). "The Official Report of the Organizing Committee of the XVI Olympiad Melbourne 1956" (PDF). The Organizing Committee of the XV Olympiad, Melbourne, 1956. pp.  p. 609. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 September 2008. Retrieved 2 January 2007.
• Herman de Wael (26 January 2001). "Diving - men's platform (Melbourne 1956)" . Retrieved 2 January 2007.