Olympedia – Platform, Men

Date	31 July – 1 August 1952
Status	Olympic
Location	Helsingin Uimastadion, Helsinki
Participants	31 from 17 countries
Format	10 metre platform.

Date

31 July – 1 August 1952

Status

Olympic

Location

Helsingin Uimastadion, Helsinki

Participants

31 from 17 countries

Format

10 metre platform.

Sammy Lee defended his gold medal from London, winning quite easily in both the qualifying and final rounds. Mexican Joaquín Capilla won the silver medal, improving from his bronze in London. He would continue to improve and in Melbourne won this event to become the first Mexican to win an Olympic diving gold medal. Lee was a physician, specializing in otolaryngology (ear-nose-throat). He later also coached diving, with two of his pupils starring in the Olympics – Bob Webster, the 1960-64 platform gold medalist, and Greg Louganis, who won pretty much everything he entered.

Pos	Competitor(s)	NOC	Points
1	Sammy Lee	USA	156.28	Gold
2	Joaquín Capilla	MEX	145.21	Silver
3	Günther Haase	GER	141.31	Bronze
4	John McCormack	USA	138.74
5	Alberto Capilla	MEX	136.44
6	Rodolfo Perea	MEX	128.28
7	Aleksandr Bakatin	URS	126.86
8	Roman Brener	URS	126.31
9	John Calhoun	USA	70.22
10	Fritz Geyer	GER	69.64
11	Thomas Christiansen	DEN	69.10
12	Peter Heatly	GBR	67.78
13	Birger Kivelä	FIN	67.31
14	Ahmed Kamel Aly	EGY	66.19
15	Jacob Gjerding	DEN	65.88
16	Toivo Öhman	SWE	65.37
17	Raymond Mulinghausen	FRA	65.02
17	Mikhail Chachba	URS	65.02
19	Tony Turner	GBR	64.34
20	Werner Sobek	GER	64.27
21	Frank Murphy	AUS	64.10
22	Franz Worisch	AUT	63.02
23	Mohamed Fakhry Abbas	EGY	62.92
24	Julius Janowsky	AUT	62.65
25	Kamal Ali Hassan	EGY	61.03
26	Lamberto Mari	ITA	60.44
27	Kurt Liederer	AUT	60.21
28	Arie Richard Hanitzsch	BRA	59.40
29	Katsuichi Mori	JPN	58.65
30	Yoav Ra'anan	ISR	58.15
31	Heinz Schaub	SUI	54.40

Pos	Competitor(s)	NOC	Points
1	Sammy Lee	USA	86.38	Q
2	Joaquín Capilla	MEX	78.46	Q
3	Günther Haase	GER	75.41	Q
4	John McCormack	USA	75.26	Q
5	Alberto Capilla	MEX	72.95	Q
6	Rodolfo Perea	MEX	72.88	Q
7	Aleksandr Bakatin	URS	71.86	Q
8	Roman Brener	URS	71.01	Q
9	John Calhoun	USA	70.22
10	Fritz Geyer	GER	69.64
11	Thomas Christiansen	DEN	69.10
12	Peter Heatly	GBR	67.78
13	Birger Kivelä	FIN	67.31
14	Ahmed Kamel Aly	EGY	66.19
15	Jacob Gjerding	DEN	65.88
16	Toivo Öhman	SWE	65.37
=17	Raymond Mulinghausen	FRA	65.02
=17	Mikhail Chachba	URS	65.02
19	Tony Turner	GBR	64.34
20	Werner Sobek	GER	64.27
21	Frank Murphy	AUS	64.10
22	Franz Worisch	AUT	63.02
23	Mohamed Fakhry Abbas	EGY	62.92
24	Julius Janowsky	AUT	62.65
25	Kamal Ali Hassan	EGY	61.03
26	Lamberto Mari	ITA	60.44
27	Kurt Liederer	AUT	60.21
28	Arie Richard Hanitzsch	BRA	59.40
29	Katsuichi Mori	JPN	58.65
30	Yoav Ra'anan	ISR	58.15
31	Heinz Schaub	SUI	54.40

Pos	Competitor(s)	NOC	Points	FP
1	Sammy Lee	USA	156.28	69.90
2	Joaquín Capilla	MEX	145.21	66.75
3	Günther Haase	GER	141.31	65.90
4	John McCormack	USA	138.74	63.48
5	Alberto Capilla	MEX	136.44	63.49
6	Rodolfo Perea	MEX	128.28	55.40
7	Aleksandr Bakatin	URS	126.86	55.00
8	Roman Brener	URS	126.31	55.30

Platform, Men

Qualifying (31 July 1952)

Final (1 August 1952)