Diving at the 1932 Summer Olympics – Women's 10 metre platform

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

The women's 10 metre platform, also reported as high diving, was one of four diving events on the diving at the 1932 Summer Olympics programme. The competition was actually held from both 10 metre and 5 metre platforms. Divers performed a total of four compulsory dives – running plain header forward, standing backward spring and forward dive with pike (10 metre), standing forward plain header, running forward plain header (5 metre). The competition was held on Friday 12 August 1932. Seven divers from five nations competed.[1]

Results

Since there were only seven entries, instead of groups, a direct final was contested.

Final

Place	Diver	Nation	Score
	Dorothy Poynton-Hill	United States	40.26
	Georgia Coleman	United States	35.56
	Marion Roper	United States	35.22
4	Ingeborg Sjöqvist	Sweden	34.52
5	Ingrid Larsen	Denmark	31.96
6	Etsuko Kamakura	Japan	31.36
7	Magdalena Epply	Austria	26.76

References

Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Diving at the 1932 Los Angeles Summer Games: Women's Platform". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 4 December 2016. Retrieved 13 May 2020.

Sources

Xth Olympiad Committee of the Games of Los Angeles, U.S.A. 1932, Ltd. (1933). "The Games of the Xth Olympiad Los Angeles 1932 - Official Report" (pdf). Xth Olympiad Committee of the Games of Los Angeles, U.S.A. 1932, Ltd. pp. p. 668. Retrieved 30 December 2006.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

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[1] Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Diving at the 1932 Los Angeles Summer Games: Women's Platform". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 4 December 2016. Retrieved 13 May 2020.