Diving at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Men's 10 metre platform
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The men's 10 metre platform, also reported as highboard diving, was one of four diving events on the diving at the 1948 Summer Olympics programme.[1]
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The competition was held on Tuesday 3 August, on Wednesday 4 August, and on Thursday 5 August. It split into two sets of dives:
- Compulsory dives
- Divers performed four pre-chosen dives (from different categories) – a running straight header forward, straight somersault backward, running straight mollberg (gainer) reverse somersault, and armstand with forward cut through.
- Facultative dives
- Divers performed four dives of their choice (from different categories and different from the compulsory).
Twenty-five divers from 15 nations competed.