title: Diving at the 1956 Summer Olympics – Men's 10 metre platform
text: # Diving at the 1956 Summer Olympics – Men's 10 metre platform
  
  The men's 10 metre platform, also reported as high diving, was one of four diving events on the Diving at the 1956 Summer Olympics programme.
  
  The competition was split into two phases held on different days:
  
  * Preliminary round (5 December) – Divers performed six voluntary dives of limited degrees of difficulty. The twelve divers with the highest scores advanced to the final.
  * Final (6 December) – Divers performed four voluntary dives without any limits of difficulty. The final score was the aggregate of the preliminary and final rounds' points.
  
  ## Results
  
  | Rank | Diver | Nation | Preliminary | Preliminary | Final | Final | Final |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | Rank | Diver | Nation | Points | Rank | Points | Rank | Total |
  | | Joaquín Capilla | Mexico | 78.68 | 2 | 73.76 | 2 | 152.44 |
  | | Gary Tobian | United States | 76.77 | 4 | 75.64 | 1 | 152.41 |
  | | Richard Connor | United States | 80.24 | 1 | 69.55 | 4 | 149.79 |
  | 4 | József Gerlach | Hungary | 77.77 | 3 | 71.48 | 3 | 149.25 |
  | 5 | Roman Brener | Soviet Union | 76.56 | 5 | 66.39 | 5 | 142.95 |
  | 6 | William Farrell | United States | 75.07 | 6 | 64.05 | 7 | 139.12 |
  | 7 | Ferenc Siák | Hungary | 72.85 | 9 | 65.98 | 6 | 138.83 |
  | 8 | Mikhail Chachba | Soviet Union | 73.02 | 8 | 61.50 | 8 | 134.52 |
  | 9 | Alberto Capilla | Mexico | 74.18 | 7 | 58.56 | 9 | 132.74 |
  | 10 | Juan Botella | Mexico | 69.39 | 12 | 56.06 | 10 | 125.45 |
  | 11 | Yutaka Baba | Japan | 70.76 | 10 | 52.93 | 11 | 123.69 |
  | 12 | Ryo Mabuchi | Japan | 69.76 | 11 | 50.44 | 12 | 120.20 |
  | 13 | Gennady Galkin | Soviet Union | 68.92 | 13 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
  | 14 | Peter Tarsey | Great Britain | 68.34 | 14 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
  | 15 | William Patrick | Canada | 67.71 | 15 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
  | 16 | Helge Vasenius | Finland | 66.63 | 16 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
  | 17 | Francis Murphy | Australia | 66.29 | 17 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
  | 18 | William Tully | Australia | 65.49 | 18 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
  | 19 | Günther Mund Borgs | Chile | 63.01 | 19 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
  | 20 | Roy Walsh | Great Britain | 62.56 | 20 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
  | 21 | Ray Cann | Great Britain | 60.08 | 20 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
  | 22 | Barry Holmes | Australia | 58.01 | 22 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
  