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Platform, Men

Date	4 – 5 August 1948
Status	Olympic
Location	Wembley Arena, Wembley, London
Participants	25 from 15 countries
Format	10 metre platform. Final round only. Four compulsory and four optional dives.

Sammy Lee won this event, leading in both the preliminary round and the final. Lee had finished third earlier in London on the springboard, which was won by Bruce Harlan, who placed second to Lee in this event. Lee would return in four years at Helsinki and defend his gold medal on platform. The bronze went to Mexican Joaquín Capilla, who had only been fifth in the preliminaries. Capilla would improve to a silver medal in 1952, behind Lee, and then win the platform gold medal at Melbourne in 1956.

Lee made it to the top as a diver despite overcoming racial discrimination as a Korean-American. Growing up in Fresno, California, Latinos, Asians and African-Americans were only allowed to use Fresno’s public Brookside Pool on Wednesdays, on what was called “international day,” which was the day before the pool was scheduled to be drained and refilled with clean water. To allow him to practice on other days, his coach dug a pit in his backyard and filled it with sand, and Lee practiced by jumping into the pit.

Pos	Competitor(s)	NOC	Points
1	Sammy Lee	USA	130.05	Gold
2	Bruce Harlan	USA	122.30	Silver
3	Joaquín Capilla	MEX	113.52	Bronze
4	Lennart Brunnhage	SWE	108.62
5	Peter Heatly	GBR	105.29
6	Thomas Christiansen	DEN	105.22
7	Raymond Mulinghausen	FRA	103.01
8	George Athans	CAN	100.91
9	Rolf Stigersand	NOR	97.93
10	Zouheir Shourbagi	SYR	97.81
11	Louis Marchant	GBR	96.11
12	Kamal Ali Hassan	EGY	95.33
13	Diego Mariscal	MEX	95.14
14	Gustavo Somohano	MEX	91.98
15	Franz Worisch	AUT	90.05
16	Haroldo Mariano	BRA	90.00
17	Willi Lippa	AUT	89.04
18	Gordon Ward	GBR	88.96
19	Ilmari Niemeläinen	FIN	87.82
20	Guy Hernandez	FRA	87.46
21	Geoff Mandy	RSA	86.00
22	Rauf Aboul Seoud	EGY	85.85
23	Willy Rist	SUI	81.78
24	Mohamed Abdel Khalek Allam	EGY	77.92
25	Ernst Strupler	SUI	77.67
DNS	Béla Balla	HUN	–
DNS	László Hidvégi	HUN	–
DNS	José Castillo	CUB	–
DNS	Eddie Heron	IRL	–
DNS	Miller Anderson	USA	–

Preliminary Round (4 August 1948 — 09:00)

Four optional dives.

Pos	Competitor(s)	NOC	Points
1	Sammy Lee	USA	51.51
2	Bruce Harlan	USA	48.94
3	Lennart Brunnhage	SWE	47.93
4	Peter Heatly	GBR	45.13
5	Joaquín Capilla	MEX	44.84
6	Rolf Stigersand	NOR	43.42
7	Zouheir Shourbagi	SYR	43.26
8	Ilmari Niemeläinen	FIN	42.20
9	Thomas Christiansen	DEN	40.70
10	Raymond Mulinghausen	FRA	40.57
11	Ernst Strupler	SUI	39.01
12	Diego Mariscal	MEX	38.96
13	Willi Lippa	AUT	38.60
14	Louis Marchant	GBR	38.52
15	Guy Hernandez	FRA	38.45
16	George Athans	CAN	38.41
17	Franz Worisch	AUT	37.70
18	Kamal Ali Hassan	EGY	37.51
19	Willy Rist	SUI	36.64
20	Haroldo Mariano	BRA	36.06
21	Geoff Mandy	RSA	35.24
22	Mohamed Abdel Khalek Allam	EGY	34.30
23	Gordon Ward	GBR	34.12
24	Rauf Aboul Seoud	EGY	33.37
25	Gustavo Somohano	MEX	33.12

Final Round (5 August 1948 — 09:00)

Four compulsory dives (forward running header [1.2], back somersault [1.8], reverse running full gainer somersault (Mollberg) [1.9], armstand forward cut-through [1.6]).

Pos	Competitor(s)	NOC	Points
1	Sammy Lee	USA	78.54
2	Bruce Harlan	USA	73.36
3	Joaquín Capilla	MEX	68.68
4	Thomas Christiansen	DEN	64.52
5	George Athans	CAN	62.50
6	Raymond Mulinghausen	FRA	62.44
7	Lennart Brunnhage	SWE	60.69
8	Peter Heatly	GBR	60.16
9	Gustavo Somohano	MEX	58.86
10	Kamal Ali Hassan	EGY	57.82
11	Louis Marchant	GBR	57.59
12	Diego Mariscal	MEX	56.18
13	Gordon Ward	GBR	54.84
14	Zouheir Shourbagi	SYR	54.55
15	Rolf Stigersand	NOR	54.51
16	Haroldo Mariano	BRA	53.94
17	Rauf Aboul Seoud	EGY	52.48
18	Franz Worisch	AUT	52.35
19	Geoff Mandy	RSA	50.76
20	Willi Lippa	AUT	50.44
21	Guy Hernandez	FRA	49.01
22	Ilmari Niemeläinen	FIN	45.62
23	Willy Rist	SUI	45.14
24	Mohamed Abdel Khalek Allam	EGY	43.62
25	Ernst Strupler	SUI	38.66