Diving at the 1936 Summer Olympics

At the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, four diving events were contested, two for men, and two for women. The competitions were held from Monday August 10, 1936 to Saturday August 15, 1936.

1 Medal summary
- 1.1 Men
- 1.2 Women
2 Participating nations
3 Medal table
4 Notes
5 References

Medal summary

The events are labelled as 3 metre springboard and 10 metre platform by the International Olympic Committee,^[1] and appeared on the 1936 Official Report as springboard diving and high diving, respectively.^[2] Following the reduction of the springboard events to the 3 metre height, in 1932, the platform events were also reduced to dives from the 10 metre platform, but only for men.^[3] Meanwhile, women still dived from both 10 and 5 metre heights.^[4]

Men

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
3 metre springboard	Richard Degener United States (USA)	Marshall Wayne United States (USA)	Alan Greene United States (USA)
10 metre platform	Marshall Wayne United States (USA)	Elbert Root United States (USA)	Hermann Stork Germany (GER)

Women

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
3 metre springboard	Marjorie Gestring United States (USA)	Katherine Rawls United States (USA)	Dorothy Poynton-Hill United States (USA)
10 metre platform	Dorothy Poynton-Hill United States (USA)	Velma Dunn United States (USA)	Käthe Köhler Germany (GER)

Participating nations

A total of 69 divers (39 men and 30 women) from 21 nations (men from 20 nations - women from 11 nations) competed at the Berlin Games:

Australia (1) (men:1 women:0)
Austria (3) (men:1 women:2)
Canada (3) (men:1 women:2)
Czechoslovakia (3) (men:3 women:0)
Denmark (2) (men:0 women:2)
Egypt (4) (men:4 women:0)
Finland (1) (men:1 women:0)
France (2) (men:1 women:1)
Germany (11) (men:5 women:6)
Great Britain (6) (men:2 women:4)
Hungary (2) (men:2 women:0)
Italy (3) (men:3 women:0)
Japan (5) (men:2 women:3)
Mexico (1) (men:1 women:0)
Netherlands (1) (men:1 women:0)
Norway (3) (men:1 women:2)
Peru (1) (men:1 women:0)
Sweden (3) (men:1 women:2)
Switzerland (3) (men:2 women:1)
United States (10) (men:5 women:5)
Yugoslavia (1) (men:1 women:0)

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States	4	4	2	10
2	Germany	0	0	2	2

Total		4	4	4	12

Notes

^ IOC medals database
^ Organisationskomitee für die XI. Olympiade Berlin 1936 e.V., p. 301.
^ "Olympic Games Medalists - Swimming and Diving (Men)". GBRAthletics. Retrieved 2006-12-31.
^ "Olympic Games Medalists - Swimming and Diving (Women)". GBRAthletics. Retrieved 2006-12-31.

References

"Olympic Medal Winners".

Organisationskomitee für die XI. Olympiade Berlin 1936 e.V. (1937). "The XIth Olympic Games, Berlin 1936 - Official Report, Volume II" (pdf). Wilhelm Limpert, Berlin, S.W. 68. Retrieved 2006-12-31.

Events at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin

Athletics Baseball (demonstration) Basketball Boxing Canoeing Cycling Diving Equestrian Fencing Field hockey Football Gliding (demonstration) Gymnastics Handball Modern pentathlon Polo Rowing Sailing Shooting Swimming Water polo Weightlifting Wrestling Art competitions (unofficial)

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