Diving at the 1952 Summer Olympics

At the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, four diving events were contested.^[1]

Diving at the Games of the XV Olympiad
Venue	Helsinki Swimming Stadium
Dates	27 July 1952 (1952-07-27) through 2 August 1952 (1952-08-02)
No. of events	4
Competitors	76 from 22 nations
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Medal summary

The events are labelled as 3 metre springboard and 10 metre platform by the International Olympic Committee,^[2] and appeared on the 1952 Official Report as springboard diving and high diving, respectively.^[3]

Men

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
3 metre springboard details	David Browning  United States	Miller Anderson  United States	Bob Clotworthy  United States
10 metre platform details	Samuel Lee  United States	Joaquín Capilla  Mexico	Günther Haase  Germany

Women

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
3 metre springboard details	Pat McCormick  United States	Madeleine Moreau  France	Zoe-Ann Olsen-Jensen  United States
10 metre platform details	Pat McCormick  United States	Paula Jean Myers  United States	Juno Stover-Irwin  United States

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States (USA)	4	2	3	9
2	France (FRA)	0	1	0	1
	Mexico (MEX)	0	1	0	1
4	Germany (GER)	0	0	1	1
Totals (4 entries)		4	4	4	12

Participating nations

•  Australia (2)
•  Austria (4)
•  Bermuda (1)
•  Brazil (2)
•  Ceylon (1)
•  Denmark (2)
•  Egypt (4)
•  Finland (3)
•  France (4)
•  Germany (4)
•  Great Britain (9)
•  Israel (1)
•  Italy (1)
•  Japan (2)
•  Mexico (5)
•  Netherlands (2)
•  South Africa (1)
•  Soviet Union (11)
•  Sweden (4)
•  Switzerland (2)
•  United States (11)
•  Venezuela (1)

See also

• Diving at the 1951 Pan American Games

Notes

1. "Diving at the 1952 Summer Olympics". OlyMADMen. Retrieved 15 May 2020.^{[permanent dead link‍]}
2. IOC medals database
3. The Organising Committee for the XV Olympiad Helsinki 1952, pp. 584-5, 598.

References

• "Olympic Medal Winners". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 22 November 2006.
• The Organising Committee for the XV Olympiad Helsinki 1952 (1955). "The Official Report of the Organising Committee for the XV Olympiad Helsinki 1952" (pdf). The Organising Committee for the XV Olympiad Helsinki 1952. Retrieved 1 January 2007.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)