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Diving at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Women's 10 metre platform

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Women's 10 metre platform
at the Games of the XIV Olympiad
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Vicki Draves  United States
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Patsy Elsener  United States
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Birte Christoffersen  Denmark
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The women's 10 metre platform, also reported as highboard diving, was one of four diving events on the diving at the 1948 Summer Olympics programme.[1]

The competition, held on Friday 6 August, was held from both 10 and 5 metre platforms and was split into two sets of dives:

  1. Compulsory dives
    Divers performed four pre-chosen dives (from different categories) – a running one-and-half somersault forward with pike, straight somersault backward (5 metre), standing straight header forward, and running straight header forward (10 metre).
  2. Facultative dives
    Divers performed two dives of their choice (from different categories and different from the compulsory).

Fifteen divers from nine nations competed.

Results

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Rank Diver Nation Points
1st place, gold medalist(s) Vicki Draves  United States 68.87
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Patsy Elsener  United States 66.28
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Birte Christoffersen  Denmark 66.04
4 Alma Staudinger  Austria 64.59
5 Juno Stover-Irwin  United States 62.63
6 Nicolle Péllissard  France 61.07
7 Eva Petersén  Sweden 59.86
8 Inge Beeken  Denmark 59.54
9 Irén Zságot  Hungary 56.62
10 Margaret Bisbrown  Great Britain 53.95
11 Denise Newman  Great Britain 53.50
12 Maire Hider  Great Britain 52.31
13 Inger Nordbø  Norway 51.55
14 Rosa Gutiérrez  Mexico 41.88
Gudrun Grömer  Austria (39.65)

Gudrun Grömer did not finish the competition.

References

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  1. ^ "Diving at the 1948 Summer Olympics: Platform, Women". OlyMADMen. Retrieved 15 May 2020.

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