Diving at the 1936 Summer Olympics – Men's 10 metre platform

The men's 10 metre platform, also reported as high diving, was one of four diving events on the diving at the 1936 Summer Olympics programme. For the first time, all dives were made exclusively from the 10 metre platform.[1]

Men's 10 metre platform at the Games of the XI Olympiad
Medalists
Marshall Wayne  United States Elbert Root  United States Hermann Stork  Germany

The competition was split into two sets of dives on separate days:

1. Compulsory dives (Friday, 14 August)

   Divers performed four pre-chosen dives – a standing straight header forward, running straight header forward, standing straight somersault backward, and standing straight isander-half gainer.

2. Facultative dives (Saturday, 15 August)

   Divers performed four dives of their choice (from different categories and different from the compulsory).

Twenty-six divers from 15 nations competed.

Results

Rank	Diver	Nation	Score
	Marshall Wayne	United States	113.58
	Elbert Root	United States	110.60
	Hermann Stork	Germany	110.31
4	Erhard Weiß	Germany	110.15
5	Frank Kurtz	United States	108.61
6	Tsuneo Shibahara	Japan	107.40
7	Siegfried Viebahn	Germany	105.00
8	Tomio Koyanagi	Japan	94.54
9	Doug Tomalin	Great Britain	94.14
10	Carlo Dibiasi	Italy	90.66
11	László Hódi	Hungary	89.25
12	Rauf Abu Al-Seoud	Egypt	88.78
13	Ibrahim Khalil	Egypt	88.08
14	Ilmari Niemeläinen	Finland	87.60
15	Ron Masters	Australia	86.95
16	František Leikert	Czechoslovakia	86.72
17	Ferrero Marianetti	Italy	82.78
18	László Hidvégi	Hungary	80.14
19	Václav Kacl	Czechoslovakia	80.04
20	Branko Ziherl	Yugoslavia	78.28
21	Sam Melberg	Norway	77.76
22	Franco Ferraris	Italy	77.60
23	Gösta Ölander	Sweden	76.84
24	Jesús Flores	Mexico	73.28
25	George Athans	Canada	70.06
26	Josef Nesvadba	Czechoslovakia	60.02

References

1. Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Diving at the 1936 Berlin Summer Games: Men's Platform". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 13 May 2020.

Sources

• Organisationskomitee für die XI. Olympiade Berlin 1936 e.V. (1937). "The XIth Olympic Games, Berlin 1936 - Official Report, Volume II" (PDF). Wilhelm Limpert, Berlin, S.W. 68. pp. pp.323–6. Archived from the original (pdf) on 9 July 2007. Retrieved 31 December 2006.
• Herman de Wael (26 January 2001). "Diving - men's platform (Berlin 1936)". Retrieved 31 December 2006.