title: Diving at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Men's 10 metre platform
text: # Diving at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Men's 10 metre platform
  
  The men'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 was held on Tuesday 3 August, on Wednesday 4 August, and on Thursday 5 August. It split into two sets of dives:
  
  * Compulsory dives
  
      Divers performed four pre-chosen dives (from different categories) – a running straight header forward, straight somersault backward, running straight mollberg (gainer) reverse somersault, and armstand with forward cut through.
  * Facultative dives
  
      Divers performed four dives of their choice (from different categories and different from the compulsory).
  
  Twenty-five divers from 15 nations competed.
  
  ## Results
  
  | Rank | Diver | Nation | Points |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | | Sammy Lee | United States | 130.05 |
  | | Bruce Harlan | United States | 122.30 |
  | | Joaquín Capilla | Mexico | 113.52 |
  | 4 | Lennart Brunnhage | Sweden | 108.62 |
  | 5 | Peter Heatly | Great Britain | 105.29 |
  | 6 | Thomas Christiansen | Denmark | 105.22 |
  | 7 | Raymond Mulinghausen | France | 103.01 |
  | 8 | George Athans | Canada | 100.91 |
  | 9 | Rolf Stigersand | Norway | 97.93 |
  | 10 | Zouheir Shourbagi | Syria | 97.81 |
  | 11 | Louis Marchant | Great Britain | 96.11 |
  | 12 | Kamal Ali Hassan | Egypt | 95.33 |
  | 13 | Diego Mariscal | Mexico | 95.14 |
  | 14 | Gustavo Somohano | Mexico | 91.98 |
  | 15 | Franz Worisch | Austria | 90.05 |
  | 16 | Haroldo Mariano | Brazil | 90.00 |
  | 17 | Wilhelm Lippa | Austria | 89.04 |
  | 18 | Gordon Ward | Great Britain | 88.96 |
  | 19 | Ilmari Niemeläinen | Finland | 87.82 |
  | 20 | Guy Hernandez | France | 87.46 |
  | 21 | Geoff Mandy | South Africa | 86.00 |
  | 22 | Rauf Abu Al-Seoud | Egypt | 85.85 |
  | 23 | Willy Rist | Switzerland | 81.78 |
  | 24 | Mohamed Abdel Khalek Allam | Egypt | 77.92 |
  | 25 | Ernst Strupler | Switzerland | 77.67 |
  