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Platform, Men

Date	14 – 15 August 1936 — 08:00 (14/8), 10:00 (15/8)
Status	Olympic
Location	Schwimmstadion, Reichssportfeld, Berlin
Participants	26 from 15 countries
Format	10 metre platform. Final round only. Four compulsory and four optional dives.

Marshall Wayne won the gold medal on platform, shortly after winning a silver medal in the 1936 springboard. The battle for the other medals was very close with American Elbert Root earning silver by a margin of less than ½-point over Germans Hermann Stork, the bronze medalist, and Johnny Weiß, who placed fourth.

Pos	Competitor(s)	NOC	Points
1	Marshall Wayne	USA	113.58	Gold
2	Elbert Root	USA	110.60	Silver
3	Hermann Stork	GER	110.31	Bronze
4	Johnny Weiß	GER	110.15
5	Frank Kurtz	USA	108.61
6	Tsuneo Shibahara	JPN	107.40
7	Siegfried Viebahn	GER	105.00
8	Tomio Koyanagi	JPN	94.54
9	Doug Tomalin	GBR	94.14
10	Carlo Dibiasi	ITA	90.66
11	László Hódi	HUN	89.25
12	Rauf Aboul Seoud	EGY	88.78
13	Khalil Ibrahim	EGY	88.08
14	Ilmari Niemeläinen	FIN	87.60
15	Ron Masters	AUS	86.95
16	František Leikert	TCH	86.72
17	Ferrero Marianetti	ITA	82.78
18	László Hidvégi	HUN	80.14
19	Václav Kacl	TCH	80.04
20	Branko Ziherl	YUG	78.28
21	Sam Melberg	NOR	77.76
22	Franco Ferraris	ITA	77.60
23	Gösta Ölander	SWE	76.84
24	Jesús Flores	MEX	73.28
25	George Athans	CAN	70.06
26	Josef Nesvadba	TCH	60.02