Diving at the 1932 Summer Olympics – Women's 10 metre platform

Women's 10 metre platform at the Games of the X Olympiad
Medalists
Dorothy Poynton-Hill   United States   Georgia Coleman   United States   Marion Roper   United States

Diving at the 1932 Summer Olympics
3 m springboard		men		women
10 m platform		men		women

The women's 10 metre platform, also reported as high diving, was one of four diving events on the diving at the 1932 Summer Olympics programme. The competition was actually held from both 10 metre and 5 metre platforms. Divers performed a total of four compulsory dives – running plain header forward, standing backward spring and forward dive with pike (10 metre), standing forward plain header, running forward plain header (5 metre). The competition was held on Friday August 12, 1932.

Seven divers from five nations competed.

Results

Since there were only seven entries, instead of groups, a direct final was contested.

Final

Place	Diver	Score
1	Dorothy Poynton (USA)	40.26
2	Georgia Coleman (USA)	35.56
3	Marion Roper (USA)	35.22
4	Ingeborg Sjöqvist (SWE)	34.52
5	Ingrid Larsen (DEN)	31.96
6	Etsuko Kamakura (JPN)	31.36
7	Magdalena Epply (AUT)	26.76

References

• Xth Olympiad Committee of the Games of Los Angeles, U.S.A. 1932, Ltd. (1933). "The Games of the Xth Olympiad Los Angeles 1932 - Official Report" (pdf). Xth Olympiad Committee of the Games of Los Angeles, U.S.A. 1932, Ltd. pp. p. 668. Retrieved 2006-12-30.