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

Men's 10 metre platform; at the Games of the XVI Olympiad
Medalists

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.

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	Preliminary		Final
Rank	Diver	Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Total
	Joaquín Capilla (MEX)	78.68	2	73.76	2	152.44
	Gary Tobian (USA)	76.77	4	75.64	1	152.41
	Richard Connor (USA)	80.24	1	69.55	4	149.79
4	Gerlach József (HUN)	77.77	3	71.48	3	149.25
5	Roman Brener (URS)	76.56	5	66.39	5	142.95
6	William Farrell (USA)	75.07	6	64.05	7	139.12
7	Siák Ferenc (HUN)	72.85	9	65.98	6	138.83
8	Mikhail Chachba (URS)	73.02	8	61.50	8	134.52
9	Alberto Capilla Perez (MEX)	74.18	7	58.56	9	134.74
10	Juan Botella (MEX)	69.39	12	56.06	10	125.45
11	Yutaka Baba (JPN)	70.76	10	52.93	11	123.69
12	Ryo Mabuchi (JPN)	69.76	11	50.44	12	120.20
13	Gennady Galkin (URS)	68.92	13	Did not advance
14	Peter Tarsey (GBR)	68.34	14	Did not advance
15	William Patrick (CAN)	67.71	15	Did not advance
16	Helge Vasenius (FIN)	66.63	16	Did not advance
17	Francis Murphy (AUS)	66.29	17	Did not advance
18	William Tully (AUS)	65.49	18	Did not advance
19	Günther Mund Borgs (CHI)	63.01	19	Did not advance
20	Roy Walsh (GBR)	62.56	20	Did not advance
21	Raymond Cann (GBR)	60.08	20	Did not advance
22	Barry Holmes (AUS)	58.01	22	Did not advance

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 2008-09-12. Retrieved 2007-01-02.
Herman de Wael (2001-01-26). "Diving - men's platform (Melbourne 1956)". Retrieved 2007-01-02.

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Diving at the 1956 Summer Olympics

3 m springboard	men	women
10 m platform	men	women