Diving at the 1936 Summer Olympics - Women's 10 metre platform

The women's 10 metre platform, also reported as high diving, was one of four diving

Diving

Diving is the sport of jumping or falling into water from a platform or springboard, sometimes while performing acrobatics. Diving is an internationally-recognized sport that is part of the Olympic Games. In addition, unstructured and non-competitive diving is a recreational pastime.Diving is one...

events on the diving at the 1936 Summer Olympics

Diving at the 1936 Summer Olympics

At the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, four diving events were contested, two for men, and two for women. The competitions were held from Monday August 10, 1936 to Saturday August 15, 1936.-Medal summary:...

programme.

The competition was actually held from both the 10 metre and 5 metre platforms and consisted of one set of dives:

Compulsory dives (Thursday, August 13)

Divers performed four pre-chosen dives – a running straight header forward, standing straight somersault
Somersault
A somersault is an acrobatic exercise in which a person does a full 360° flip, moving the feet over the head. A somersault can be performed either forwards, backwards, or sideways and can be executed in the air or on the ground...

backward (5 metre), a running straight header forward and a standing straight header forward (10 metre).

Results

Place	Diver	Score
1		33.93
2		33.63
3		33.43
4		32.53
5		30.47
6		30.24
7		30.16
8		29.90
9		29.67
10		29.20
11		28.66
12		28.62
13		28.40
14		28.10
15		27.54
16		27.16
17		27.08
18		26.62
19		26.52
20		25.56
21		25.04
22		24.30

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