| | Event type
Platform, Women
| Date | 6 August 1948 — 09:00-12:00, 14:00-17:00 | |
|---|---|---|
| Status | Olympic | |
| Location | Wembley Arena, Wembley, London | |
| Participants | 15 from 9 countries | |
| Format | 5 and 10 metres platforms. Final round only. Four compulsory and two optional dives. | |
Vicki Draves had earlier won the springboard gold medal in London and won this event to become the first woman to win the springboard/platform double at one Olympics, although this would be repeated in both 1952 and 1956 by Pat McCormick, in 1960 by Ingrid Krämer, and in 1996 by Fu Mingxia. Patsy Elsener won the silver medal on platform, after having won a bronze on springboard in London. The bronze medal went to Denmark’s Birte Chistofferson, the first Danish diver to win an Olympic medal since Stefanie Clausen in 1920.
| Pos | Competitor | NOC | Points | Final | Preliminary Round | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vicki Draves |  USA | 68.87 | – | – | Gold | ||
| 2 | Patsy Elsener | USA | 66.28 | – | – | Silver | ||
| 3 | Birte Christoffersen |  DEN | 66.04 | – | – | Bronze | ||
| 4 | Alma Staudinger |  AUT | 64.59 | – | – | |||
| 5 | Juno Stover | USA | 62.63 | – | – | |||
| 6 | Nicole Péllissard |  FRA | 61.07 | – | – | |||
| 7 | Eva Petersén |  SWE | 59.86 | – | – | |||
| 8 | Inge Beeken | DEN | 59.54 | – | – | |||
| 9 | Irén Zságot |  HUN | 56.62 | – | – | |||
| 10 | Margaret Bisbrown |  GBR | 53.95 | – | – | |||
| 11 | Denise Newman | GBR | 53.50 | – | – | |||
| 12 | Maire Hider | GBR | 52.31 | – | – | |||
| 13 | Inger Nordbø |  NOR | 51.55 | – | – | |||
| 14 | Rosa Gutiérrez |  MEX | 41.88 | – | – | |||
| Gudrun Grömer | AUT | – | – | – |
Final Round
| Date | 6 August 1948 — 09:00 |
|---|---|
| Format | Four compulsory dives (forward running 1½ somersault - 5 metres [1.4], back somersault - 5 metres [1.4], forward standing header - 10 metres [1.1], forward running header - 10 metres [1.2]). |
Preliminary Round
| Date | 6 August 1948 — 14:00 |
|---|---|
| Format | Two optional dives. |