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

Women's 10 metre platform
at the Games of the X Olympiad
Medalists
   United States
   United States
   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

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