| Date | 14 – 15 August 1936 — 08:00 (14/8), 10:00 (15/8) | |
|---|---|---|
| Status | Olympic | |
| Location | Schwimmstadion, Reichssportfeld, Berlin | |
| Participants | 26 from 15 countries | |
| Format | 10 metres platform. Final round only. Four compulsory and four optional dives. | |
Marshall Wayne won the gold medal on platform, shortly after winning a silver medal in the 1936 springboard. The battle for the other medals was very close, with American Elbert Root earning silver by a margin of less than ½-point over Germans Hermann Stork, the bronze medalist, and Johnny Weiß, who placed fourth.
| Pos | Competitor | NOC | Points | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Marshall Wayne |  USA | 113.58 | Gold | ||
| 2 | Elbert Root | USA | 110.60 | Silver | ||
| 3 | Hermann Stork |  GER | 110.31 | Bronze | ||
| 4 | Johnny Weiß | GER | 110.15 | |||
| 5 | Frank Kurtz | USA | 108.61 | |||
| 6 | Tsuneo Shibahara |  JPN | 107.40 | |||
| 7 | Siegfried Viebahn | GER | 105.00 | |||
| 8 | Tomio Koyanagi | JPN | 94.54 | |||
| 9 | Doug Tomalin |  GBR | 94.14 | |||
| 10 | Carlo Dibiasi |  ITA | 90.66 | |||
| 11 | László Hódi |  HUN | 89.25 | |||
| 12 | Rauf Aboul Seoud |  EGY | 88.78 | |||
| 13 | Khalil Ibrahim | EGY | 88.08 | |||
| 14 | Ilmari Niemeläinen |  FIN | 87.60 | |||
| 15 | Ron Masters |  AUS | 86.95 | |||
| 16 | František Leikert |  TCH | 86.72 | |||
| 17 | Ferrero Marianetti | ITA | 82.78 | |||
| 18 | László Hidvégi | HUN | 80.14 | |||
| 19 | Václav Kácl | TCH | 80.04 | |||
| 20 | Branko Ziherl |  YUG | 78.28 | |||
| 21 | Sam Melberg |  NOR | 77.76 | |||
| 22 | Franco Ferraris | ITA | 77.60 | |||
| 23 | Gösta Ölander |  SWE | 76.84 | |||
| 24 | Jesús Flores |  MEX | 73.28 | |||
| 25 | George Athans |  CAN | 70.06 | |||
| 26 | Josef Nesvadba | TCH | 60.02 |
