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

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Women's 10 metre platform
at the Games of the XVI Olympiad
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Pat McCormick  United States
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Juno Stover-Irwin  United States
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Paula Jean Myers-Pope  United States
← 1952
1960 →

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.[1]

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[edit]

Rank Diver Nation Preliminary Final
Points Rank Points Rank Total
1st place, gold medalist(s) Pat McCormick  United States 51.28 4 33.57 1 84.85
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Juno Stover-Irwin  United States 50.81 5 30.83 2 81.64
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Paula Jean Myers-Pope  United States 52.96 1 28.62 4 81.58
4 Nicolle Darrigrand  France 50.02 7 28.78 3 78.80
5 Tatyana Karakashyants  Soviet Union 52.19 3 24.76 7 76.95
6 Lyubov Shigalova  Soviet Union 49.22 8 27.18 5 76.40
7 Ann Long  Great Britain 49.15 9 27.00 6 76.15
8 Birte Christoffersen  Sweden 50.48 6 24.73 8 75.21
9 Raisa Gorokhovskaya  Soviet Union 52.64 2 21.20 12 73.84
10 Kanoko Tsutani  Japan 48.45 10 22.50 10 70.95
11 Hatsuko Hirose  Japan 46.15 12 23.56 9 69.71
12 Charmain Welsh  Great Britain 46.55 11 22.50 10 69.05
13 Eva Pfarrhofer  Austria 46.02 13 did not advance
14 Barbara McAulay  Australia 45.67 14 did not advance
15 Rosalyn Barton  Australia 41.96 15 did not advance
16 Mary Proença  Brazil 36.71 16 did not advance
17 Hanna Laursen  Denmark 35.39 17 did not advance
18 Adele Price  Australia 35.28 18 did not advance

References[edit]

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

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