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

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

The women'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 held on both 10 and 5 metre platforms and split into two phases on different days:

Preliminary round (6 December) – Divers performed three voluntary dives of limited degrees of difficulty and one voluntary dive without limits. The twelve divers with the highest scores advanced to the final.
Final (7 December) – Divers performed two 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
	Pat McCormick (USA)	51.28	4	33.57	1	84.85
	Juno Stover-Irwin (USA)	50.81	5	30.83	2	81.64
	Paula Jean Myers-Pope (USA)	52.96	1	28.62	4	81.58
4	Nicolle Pellissard (FRA)	50.02	7	28.78	3	78.80
5	Tatyana Vereina (URS)	52.19	3	24.76	7	76.95
6	Lyubov Shigalova (URS)	49.22	8	27.18	5	76.40
7	Phyllis Long (GBR)	49.15	9	27.00	6	76.15
8	Birte Christoffersen-Hanson (DEN)	50.48	6	24.73	8	75.21
9	Raisa Gorokhovskaya (URS)	52.64	2	21.20	12	73.84
10	Kanoko Tsutani (JPN)	48.45	10	22.50	10	70.95
11	Hatsuko Hirose (JPN)	46.15	12	23.56	9	69.71
12	Charmain Welsh (GBR)	46.55	11	22.50	10	69.05
13	Eva Pfarrhofer (AUT)	46.02	13	Did not advance
14	Barbara McAulay (AUS)	45.67	14	Did not advance
15	Roslyn Barton (AUS)	41.96	15	Did not advance
16	Mary Proença (BRA)	36.71	16	Did not advance
17	Hanna Laursen (DEN)	35.39	17	Did not advance
18	Adele Price (AUS)	35.28	18	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. 622. Archived from the original (pdf) on 2008-09-12. Retrieved 2007-01-02.
Herman de Wael (2001-08-07). "Diving - women's platform (Melbourne 1956)". Retrieved 2007-01-02.

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