Diving at the 1952 Summer Olympics – Men's 10 metre platform
# Diving at the 1952 Summer Olympics – Men's 10 metre platform

The men's 10 metre platform, also reported as high diving, was one of four diving events on the Diving at the 1952 Summer Olympics programme.

The competition was split into two phases held on different days:

* Preliminary round (31 July) – Divers performed six voluntary dives of limited degrees of difficulty. The eight divers with the highest scores advanced to the final.
* Final (1 August) – Divers performed four voluntary dives without any limits of difficulty. The final score was the aggregate of the preliminary and final rounds' points.

## Results

| Rank | Diver | Nation | Preliminary | Preliminary | Final | Final | Final |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Rank | Diver | Nation | Points | Rank | Points | Rank | Total |
| | Sammy Lee | United States | 86.38 | 1 | 69.90 | 1 | 156.28 |
| | Joaquín Capilla | Mexico | 78.46 | 2 | 66.75 | 2 | 145.21 |
| | Günther Haase | Germany | 75.41 | 3 | 65.90 | 3 | 141.31 |
| 4 | John McCormack | United States | 75.26 | 4 | 63.48 | 5 | 138.77 |
| 5 | Alberto Capilla Perez | Mexico | 72.95 | 5 | 63.49 | 4 | 136.44 |
| 6 | Rodolfo Perea | Mexico | 72.88 | 6 | 55.40 | 6 | 128.28 |
| 7 | Aleksandr Bakatin | Soviet Union | 71.86 | 7 | 55.00 | 8 | 126.86 |
| 8 | Roman Brener | Soviet Union | 71.01 | 8 | 55.30 | 7 | 126.31 |
| 9 | John Calhoun | United States | 70.22 | 9 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 10 | Fritz Geyer | Germany | 69.64 | 10 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 11 | Thomas Christiansen | Denmark | 69.10 | 11 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 12 | Peter Heatly | Great Britain | 67.78 | 12 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 13 | Birger Kivelä | Finland | 67.31 | 13 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 14 | Ahmed Kamel Aly | Egypt | 66.19 | 14 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 15 | Jacob Gjerding | Denmark | 65.88 | 15 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 16 | Toivo Öhman | Sweden | 65.37 | 16 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 17 | Raymond Mulinghausen | France | 65.02 | 17 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 17 | Mikhail Chachba | Soviet Union | 65.02 | 17 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 19 | Anthony Turner | Great Britain | 64.34 | 19 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 20 | Werner Sobeck | Germany | 64.27 | 20 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 21 | Francis Murphy | Australia | 64.10 | 21 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 22 | Franz Worisch | Austria | 63.02 | 22 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 23 | Mohamed Fakhry Abbas | Egypt | 62.92 | 23 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 24 | Julius Janowsky | Austria | 62.65 | 24 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 25 | Kamal Ali Hassan | Egypt | 61.03 | 25 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 26 | Lamberto Mari | Italy | 60.44 | 26 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 27 | Kurt Liederer | Austria | 60.21 | 27 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 28 | Arie Richard Hanitzsch | Brazil | 59.40 | 28 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 29 | Katsuichi Mori | Japan | 58.65 | 29 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 30 | Yoav Raanan | Israel | 58.15 | 30 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 31 | Heinz Schaub | Switzerland | 54.40 | 31 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
