Diving at the 1956 Summer Olympics - Men's 10 metre platform
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| Diving at the 1956 Summer Olympics |
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| 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 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.
[edit] Medalists
| Gold |  Joaquin Capilla PerezMexico (MEX) |
| Silver |  Gary TobianUnited States (USA) |
| Bronze | Richard Conner United States (USA) |
[edit] Results
| Rank | Diver | Preliminary | Final | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Points | Rank | Points | Rank | Total | |||||
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Joaquin Capilla Perez (MEX) |
78.68 | 2 | 73.76 | 2 | 152.44 | |||
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Gary Tobian (USA) |
76.77 | 4 | 75.64 | 1 | 152.41 | |||
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Richard Conner (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 | ||||||
| 14 |  Peter Tarsey (GBR) |
68.34 | 14 | ||||||
| 15 |  William Patrick (CAN) |
67.71 | 15 | ||||||
| 16 |  Helge Vasenius (FIN) |
66.63 | 16 | ||||||
| 17 |  Francis Murphy (AUS) |
66.29 | 17 | ||||||
| 18 | William Tully (AUS) |
65.49 | 18 | ||||||
| 19 |  Günther Mund Borgs (CHI) |
63.01 | 19 | ||||||
| 20 | Roy Walsh (GBR) |
62.56 | 20 | ||||||
| 21 | Raymond Cann (GBR) |
60.08 | 20 | ||||||
| 22 | Barry Holmes (AUS) |
58.01 | 22 | ||||||
[edit] References
- The Organizing Committee of the XV Olympiad, Melbourne, 1956 (1958). The Official Report of the Organizing Committee of the XVI Olympiad Melbourne 1956 (pdf) p. 609. The Organizing Committee of the XV Olympiad, Melbourne, 1956. Retrieved on 2007-01-02.
- Herman de Wael (2001-01-26). Diving - men's platform (Melbourne 1956). Retrieved on 2007-01-02.
