1948 Summer Olympics / Diving

Diving at the XIV Summer Olympics
information
venue	London
Competition venue	Empire pool
Nations	22nd
Athletes	63 (24 women, 39 men)
date	July 30 - August 6, 1948
decisions	4th
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At the XIV Summer Olympics in London in 1948 , four water diving competitions were held, two each for women and men. The venue was the Empire Pool (today's Wembley Arena ) in the Wembley district .

Balance sheet

Empire pool

Medal table

space	country				total
1	United States	4th	4th	2	10
2	Denmark	-	-	1	1
	Mexico	-	-	1	1

Medalist

Men

competitor	gold	silver	bronze
Jump 3 m	Bruce Harlan	Miller Anderson	Samuel Lee
Diving 10 m	Samuel Lee	Bruce Harlan	Joaquín Capilla

Women

competitor	gold	silver	bronze
Jump 3 m	Victoria Draves	Zoe-Ann Olsen	Patricia Elsener
Diving 10 m	Victoria Draves	Patricia Elsener	Birte Christoffersen

Results men

Jump 3 m

space	country	athlete	Points
1	United States	Bruce Harlan	163.64
2	United States	Miller Anderson	157.29
3	United States	Samuel Lee	145.52
4th	MEX	Joaquín Capilla	141.79
5	FRA	Raymond Mulinghausen	126.55
6th	SWE	Svante Johansson	120.20
7th	EGY	Kamal Ali Hassan	119.90
8th	THE	Thomas Christiansen	114.59
12	AUT	Franz Worisch	112.15
19th	AUT	Wilhelm Lippa	103.18
25th	SUI	Ernst Strupler	080.09

Date: July 30th and August 3rd, 1948
27 participants from 16 countries

Diving 10 m

space	country	athlete	Points
1	United States	Samuel Lee	130.05
2	United States	Bruce Harlan	122.30
3	MEX	Joaquín Capilla	113.52
4th	SWE	Lennart Brunnhage	108.62
5	GBR	Peter Heatly	105.29
6th	THE	homas christiansen	105.22
7th	FRA	Raymond Mulinghausen	103.01
8th	CAN	George Athans	100.91
15th	AUT	Franz Worisch	090.05
17th	AUT	Wilhelm Lippa	089.04
23	SUI	Willy Rist	081.78
25th	SUI	Ernst Strupler	077.67

Date: 3rd to 5th August 1948
25 participants from 15 countries

Results women

Jump 3 m

space	country	sportswoman	Points
1	United States	Victoria Draves	108.74
2	United States	Zoe-Ann Olsen	108.23
3	United States	Patricia Elsener	101.30
4th	FRA	Nicolle Péllissard	100.38
5	AUT	Gudrun Groemer	093.30
6th	GBR	Edna Child	091.63
7th	FRA	Madeleine Moreau	089.43
8th	NED	Jacoba Heck	087.81
11	AUT	Alma Staudinger	086.93

Date: July 31, August 2 and 3, 1948
16 participants from 8 countries

Diving 10 m

space	country	sportswoman	Points
1	United States	Victoria Draves	68.87
2	United States	Patricia Elsener	66.28
3	THE	Birte Christoffersen	66.04
4th	AUT	Alma Staudinger	64.59
5	United States	Juno Stover	62.63
6th	FRA	Nicolle Péllissard	61.07
7th	SWE	Eva Petersén	59.86
8th	THE	Inge Beeken	59.54
	AUT	Gudrun Groemer	DNF

Date: August 6, 1948
15 participants from 9 countries

Web links

• Diving at the 1948 Summer Olympics in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Official report of the 1948 Summer Games (PDF, 30.9 MB)