1952 Summer Olympics / Diving

Diving at the 1952 Summer Olympics
information
venue	Helsinki
Competition venue	Helsingin uimastadion
Nations	22nd
Athletes	76 (51 , 25 )
date	July 27 - August 2, 1952
decisions	4th
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At the XV. 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki found four competitions Diving place, two each for women and men. The venue was the Helsingin uimastadion .

Balance sheet

Medal table

space	country				total
1	United States	4th	2	3	9
2	France	-	1	-	1
	Mexico	-	1	-	1
4th	BR Germany	-	-	1	1

Helsingin uimastadion

Medalist

Men

competitor	gold	silver	bronze
Jump 3 m	David Browning	Miller Anderson	Bob Clotworthy
Diving 10 m	Samuel Lee	Joaquín Capilla	Günther Haase

Women

competitor	gold	silver	bronze
Jump 3 m	Patricia McCormick	Madeleine Moreau	Zoe Ann Olsen
Diving 10 m	Patricia McCormick	Paula Pope	Juno Irwin

Results men

Jump 3 m

space	country	athlete	Points
1	United States	David Browning	205.29
2	United States	Miller Anderson	199.84
3	United States	Bob Clotworthy	184.92
4th	MEX	Joaquín Capilla	178.33
5	URS	Roman Brener	165.63
6th	BRA	Milton Busin	155.91
7th	GBR	Anthony Turner	151.90
8th	URS	Alexei Shigalov	151.31
10	AUT	Franz Worisch	067.18
11	GER	Hanns Aderhold	067.09
12	GER	Werner Sobeck	066.75
35	SUI	Heinz Schaub	047.15

From left: Anderson, Browning, Clotworthy

Date: July 27th and 28th, 1952
36 participants from 20 countries

Diving 10 m

space	country	athlete	Points
1	United States	Samuel Lee	156.28
2	MEX	Joaquín Capilla	145.21
3	GER	Günther Haase	141.31
4th	United States	John McCormack	138.77
5	MEX	Alberto Capilla	136.44
6th	MEX	Rodolfo Perea	128.28
7th	URS	Alexander Bakatin	126.86
8th	URS	Roman Brener	126.31
10	GER	Fritz Geyer	069.64
20th	GER	Werner Sobeck	064.27
22nd	AUT	Franz Worisch	063.02
24	AUT	Julius Jarowsky	062.65
27	AUT	Kurt Liederer	060.21
31	SUI	Heinz Schaub	054.40

From left: Capilla, Lee, Haase

Date: July 31st and August 1st 1952
31 participants from 17 countries

Results women

Jump 3 m

space	country	sportswoman	Points
1	United States	Patricia McCormick	147.30
2	FRA	Madeleine Moreau	139.34
3	United States	Zoe Ann Olsen	127.57
4th	URS	Ninel Krutova	116.86
5	GBR	Charmain Welsh	116.38
6th	URS	Lyubov Zhigalova	113.83
7th	FRA	Nicolle Pellissard	111.98
8th	GBR	Ann Long	108.82

Date: July 29th and 30th, 1952
15 participants from 7 countries

Diving 10 m

space	country	sportswoman	Points
1	United States	Patricia McCormick	79.37
2	United States	Paula Pope	71.63
3	United States	Juno Irwin	70.49
4th	FRA	Nicolle Pellissard	69.08
5	GBR	Ann Long	63.19
6th	URS	Tatjana Wereina	61.09
7th	URS	Diana Spencer	60.76
8th	GBR	Yevgenia Bogdanovskaya	57.50
9	AUT	Eva Pfarrhofer	40.26
15th	SUI	Fernanda Martini-Pautasso	30.04

Date: August 1st and 2nd, 1952
15 participants from 8 countries

Web links

Commons : Diving in the Water at the 1952 Summer Olympics  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Diving at the 1952 Summer Olympics in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Official report of the 1952 Summer Games (PDF, 29.7 MB)