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

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Men's 10 metre platform
at the Games of the XVI Olympiad
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Joaquín Capilla  Mexico
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Gary Tobian  United States
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Richard Connor  United States
← 1952
1960 →

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.[1]

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

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Rank Diver Nation Preliminary Final
Points Rank Points Rank Total
1st place, gold medalist(s) Joaquín Capilla  Mexico 78.68 2 73.76 2 152.44
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Gary Tobian  United States 76.77 4 75.64 1 152.41
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Richard Connor  United States 80.24 1 69.55 4 149.79
4 József Gerlach  Hungary 77.77 3 71.48 3 149.25
5 Roman Brener  Soviet Union 76.56 5 66.39 5 142.95
6 William Farrell  United States 75.07 6 64.05 7 139.12
7 Ferenc Siák  Hungary 72.85 9 65.98 6 138.83
8 Mikhail Chachba  Soviet Union 73.02 8 61.50 8 134.52
9 Alberto Capilla  Mexico 74.18 7 58.56 9 132.74
10 Juan Botella  Mexico 69.39 12 56.06 10 125.45
11 Yutaka Baba  Japan 70.76 10 52.93 11 123.69
12 Ryo Mabuchi  Japan 69.76 11 50.44 12 120.20
13 Gennady Galkin  Soviet Union 68.92 13 did not advance
14 Peter Tarsey  Great Britain 68.34 14 did not advance
15 William Patrick  Canada 67.71 15 did not advance
16 Helge Vasenius  Finland 66.63 16 did not advance
17 Francis Murphy  Australia 66.29 17 did not advance
18 William Tully  Australia 65.49 18 did not advance
19 Günther Mund Borgs  Chile 63.01 19 did not advance
20 Roy Walsh  Great Britain 62.56 20 did not advance
21 Ray Cann  Great Britain 60.08 20 did not advance
22 Barry Holmes  Australia 58.01 22 did not advance

References

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  1. ^ "Diving at the 1956 Summer Olympics: Platform, Men". OlyMADMen. Retrieved 16 May 2020.

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