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

Men's 10 metre platform at the Games of the XV Olympiad
Left-right: Capilla, Lee, Haase
Medalists
Samuel Lee  United States Joaquín Capilla  Mexico Günther Haase  Germany

Diving at the 1952 Summer Olympics
3 m springboard	men	women
10 m platform	men	women

The men's 10 metre platform, also reported as high diving, was one of four diving events on the Diving at the 1952 Summer Olympics programme.

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

• Preliminary round (31 July) – Divers performed six voluntary dives of limited degrees of difficulty. The eight divers with the highest scores advanced to the final.
• Final (1 August) – 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	Preliminary		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Total
	Samuel Lee (USA)	86.38	1	69.90	1	156.28
	Joaquín Capilla (MEX)	78.46	2	66.75	2	145.21
	Günther Haase (GER)	75.41	3	65.90	3	141.31
4	John McCormack (USA)	75.26	4	63.48	5	138.77
5	Alberto Capilla Perez (MEX)	72.95	5	63.49	4	136.44
6	Rodolfo Perea (MEX)	72.88	6	55.40	6	128.28
7	Aleksandr Bakatin (URS)	71.86	7	55.00	8	126.86
8	Roman Brener (URS)	71.01	8	55.30	7	126.31
9	John Calhoun (USA)	70.22	9	Did not advance
10	Fritz Geyer (GER)	69.64	10	Did not advance
11	Thomas Christiansen (DEN)	69.10	11	Did not advance
12	Peter Heatly (GBR)	67.78	12	Did not advance
13	Birger Kivelä (FIN)	67.31	13	Did not advance
14	Ahmed Kamel Aly (EGY)	66.19	14	Did not advance
15	Jacob Gjerding (DEN)	65.88	15	Did not advance
16	Toivo Öhman (SWE)	65.37	16	Did not advance
17	Raymond Mulinghausen (FRA)	65.02	17	Did not advance
17	Mikhail Chachba (URS)	65.02	17	Did not advance
19	Anthony Turner (GBR)	64.34	19	Did not advance
20	Werner Sobeck (GER)	64.27	20	Did not advance
21	Francis Murphy (AUS)	64.10	21	Did not advance
22	Franz Worisch (AUT)	63.02	22	Did not advance
23	Mohamed Fakhry Abbas (EGY)	62.92	23	Did not advance
24	Julius Janowsky (AUT)	62.65	24	Did not advance
25	Kamal Ali Hassan (EGY)	61.03	25	Did not advance
26	Lamberto Mari (ITA)	60.44	26	Did not advance
27	Kurt Liederer (AUT)	60.21	27	Did not advance
28	Richard Arie (BRA)	59.40	28	Did not advance
29	Katsuichi Mori (JPN)	58.65	29	Did not advance
30	Yoav Raanan (ISR)	58.15	30	Did not advance
31	Heinz Schaub (SUI)	54.40	31	Did not advance

References

• Diving at the 1952 Helsinki Summer Games: Men's Platform. sports-reference.com
• The Organising Committee for the XV Olympiad Helsinki 1952 (1955). "The Official Report of the Organising Committee for the XV Olympiad Helsinki 1952" (PDF). The Organising Committee for the XV Olympiad Helsinki 1952. pp. p. 585. Archived from the original (pdf) on 2008-04-11. Retrieved 2007-01-01.
• Herman de Wael (2001-01-26). "Diving - men's platform (Helsinki 1952)". Retrieved 2007-01-01.