title: Diving at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Women's 10 metre platform
text: # Diving at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Women's 10 metre platform
  
  The women's 10 metre platform, also reported as highboard diving, was one of four diving events on the diving at the 1948 Summer Olympics programme.
  
  The competition, held on Friday 6 August, was held from both 10 and 5 metre platforms and was split into two sets of dives:
  
  * Compulsory dives
  
      Divers performed four pre-chosen dives (from different categories) – a running one-and-half somersault forward with pike, straight somersault backward (5 metre), standing straight header forward, and running straight header forward (10 metre).
  * Facultative dives
  
      Divers performed two dives of their choice (from different categories and different from the compulsory).
  
  Fifteen divers from nine nations competed.
  
  ## Results
  
  | Rank | Diver | Nation | Points |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | | Vicki Draves | United States | 68.87 |
  | | Patsy Elsener | United States | 66.28 |
  | | Birte Christoffersen | Denmark | 66.04 |
  | 4 | Alma Staudinger | Austria | 64.59 |
  | 5 | Juno Stover-Irwin | United States | 62.63 |
  | 6 | Nicolle Péllissard | France | 61.07 |
  | 7 | Eva Petersén | Sweden | 59.86 |
  | 8 | Inge Beeken | Denmark | 59.54 |
  | 9 | Irén Zságot | Hungary | 56.62 |
  | 10 | Margaret Bisbrown | Great Britain | 53.95 |
  | 11 | Denise Newman | Great Britain | 53.50 |
  | 12 | Maire Hider | Great Britain | 52.31 |
  | 13 | Inger Nordbø | Norway | 51.55 |
  | 14 | Rosa Gutiérrez | Mexico | 41.88 |
  | — | Gudrun Grömer | Austria | (39.65) |
  
  Gudrun Grömer did not finish the competition.
  
  