Olympedia – Springboard, Men

Springboard, Men

Date	27 – 28 July 1952
Status	Olympic
Location	Helsingin Uimastadion, Helsinki
Participants	36 from 20 countries
Format	3 metre springboard.

Date

27 – 28 July 1952

Status

Olympic

Location

Helsingin Uimastadion, Helsinki

Participants

36 from 20 countries

Format

3 metre springboard.

The Americans swept the medals in this event, as they did at every Olympics from 1932-52. The gold went to Skippy Browning, who led both the qualifying and the final. Silver medalist Miller Anderson repeated his second-place finish from London. The bronze went to Bob Clotworthy, who would return in four years to win the gold medal in Melbourne.

Browning and Anderson both died young, Browning under tragic circumstances. He was a Navy fight pilot and died in a crash in March 1956 when he was only 24. Anderson had also been a fighter pilot, but in World War II. He would died from a heart attack in 1966, aged 44. Clotworthy became a diving coach and a well-known historian of diving in his later years.

Pos	Competitor(s)	NOC	Points
1	Skippy Browning	USA	205.29	Gold
2	Miller Anderson	USA	199.84	Silver
3	Bob Clotworthy	USA	184.92	Bronze
4	Joaquín Capilla	MEX	178.33
5	Roman Brener	URS	165.63
6	Milton Busin	BRA	155.91
7	Tony Turner	GBR	151.90
8	Aleksey Zhigalov	URS	151.31
9	Yoav Ra'anan	ISR	67.70
10	Franz Worisch	AUT	67.18
11	Hanns Aderhold	GER	67.09
12	Werner Sobek	GER	66.75
13	Gennady Udalov	URS	65.99
14	Helge Vasenius	FIN	65.41
15	Katsuichi Mori	JPN	65.23
16	Peter Heatly	GBR	63.37
17	Ahmed Kamel Aly	EGY	62.95
18	Kamal Ali Hassan	EGY	62.68
19	Rodolfo Perea	MEX	62.36
20	Alberto Capilla	MEX	61.85
20	Peter Elliott	GBR	61.85
22	Willie Welgemoed	RSA	61.64
23	Frank Landqvist	SWE	60.11
24	Ron Faulds	AUS	59.90
25	Frank Gosling	BER	59.57
26	Raymond Mulinghausen	FRA	59.52
27	Gunnar Johansson	SWE	59.11
28	Mickey Johnson	BER	58.70
29	Olavi Heinonen	FIN	58.06
30	Henri Goosen	FRA	57.79
31	Allan Smith	SRI	55.00
32	Lamberto Mari	ITA	54.42
33	Ahmed Fathi Hashad	EGY	50.04
34	Frank Murphy	AUS	48.42
35	Heinz Schaub	SUI	47.15
36	Eduardo Fereda	VEN	41.98

Pos	Competitor(s)	NOC	Points
1	Skippy Browning	USA	89.59	Q
2	Miller Anderson	USA	88.00	Q
3	Bob Clotworthy	USA	80.64	Q
4	Joaquín Capilla	MEX	79.42	Q
5	Tony Turner	GBR	71.36	Q
6	Aleksey Zhigalov	URS	71.25	Q
7	Roman Brener	URS	69.37	Q
8	Milton Busin	BRA	67.97	Q
9	Yoav Ra'anan	ISR	67.70
10	Franz Worisch	AUT	67.18
11	Hanns Aderhold	GER	67.09
12	Werner Sobek	GER	66.75
13	Gennady Udalov	URS	65.99		1
14	Helge Vasenius	FIN	65.41
15	Katsuichi Mori	JPN	65.23
16	Peter Heatly	GBR	63.37
17	Ahmed Kamel Aly	EGY	62.95
18	Kamal Ali Hassan	EGY	62.68
19	Rodolfo Perea	MEX	62.36
=20	Alberto Capilla	MEX	61.85
=20	Peter Elliott	GBR	61.85
22	Willie Welgemoed	RSA	61.64
23	Frank Landqvist	SWE	60.11		2
24	Ron Faulds	AUS	59.90
25	Frank Gosling	BER	59.57
26	Raymond Mulinghausen	FRA	59.52
27	Gunnar Johansson	SWE	59.11
28	Mickey Johnson	BER	58.70
29	Olavi Heinonen	FIN	58.06
30	Henri Goosen	FRA	57.79
31	Allan Smith	SRI	55.00
32	Lamberto Mari	ITA	54.42
33	Ahmed Fathi Hashad	EGY	50.04
34	Frank Murphy	AUS	48.42
35	Heinz Schaub	SUI	47.15
36	Eduardo Fereda	VEN	41.98

Pos	Competitor(s)	NOC	Points	FP
1	Skippy Browning	USA	205.29	115.70
2	Miller Anderson	USA	199.84	111.84
3	Bob Clotworthy	USA	184.92	104.28
4	Joaquín Capilla	MEX	178.33	98.91	3
5	Roman Brener	URS	165.63	96.26
6	Milton Busin	BRA	155.91	87.94
7	Tony Turner	GBR	151.90	80.54	4
8	Aleksey Zhigalov	URS	151.31	80.06

Springboard, Men

Qualifying (27 July 1952)

Final (28 July 1952)