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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 10 August 1936 to Saturday 15 August 1936. Medal summary The events are labelled as 3 metre springboard and 10 metre platform by the International Olympic Committee, and appeared on the 1937 Official Report as ''springboard diving'' and ''high diving'', respectively.Organisationskomitee für die XI. Olympiade Berlin 1936 e.V., p. 301. 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.Official Report, p. 962. For men, "All dives were executed from 10 m. board." Meanwhile, women still dived from both 10 and 5 metre heights.Official Report, p. 982. For women, compulsory dives listed include two from 5 metres and two from 10 metres. Men Women Participating nations A total of 69 divers (39 men and 30 women) from 2 ...
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Olympiapark Schwimmstadion Berlin
Olympiapark Schwimmstadion Berlin (german: Berlin Olympic Swim Stadium) is an aquatics venue located at Olympiapark Berlin in Berlin, Germany constructed for the 1936 Summer Olympics. Located north of the Olympic Stadium it hosted the diving, swimming, water polo Water polo is a competitive sport, competitive team sport played in water between two teams of seven players each. The game consists of four quarters in which the teams attempt to score goals by throwing the water polo ball, ball into the oppo ..., and the swimming part of the modern pentathlon events. A total of 140,231 attended during all competitions. It hosted the World Aquatics Championships in 1978 as well and was a venue of European Maccabi Games 2015. The stadium's ground level was constructed lower than the top part of the Olympic Stadium. Its swimming pool is 50 m long by 20 m wide, separated into eight lanes. Men's dressing rooms are located under the east stands while women's dressing rooms were loc ...
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Elbert Root
Elbert Alonzo Root (July 20, 1915 – July 15, 1983) was an American diver who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics The 1936 Summer Olympics (German: ''Olympische Sommerspiele 1936''), officially known as the Games of the XI Olympiad (German: ''Spiele der XI. Olympiade'') and commonly known as Berlin 1936 or the Nazi Olympics, were an international multi-sp .... In 1936 he won the silver medal in the 10 metre platform event. References 1915 births 1983 deaths Divers at the 1936 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists for the United States in diving American male divers Medalists at the 1936 Summer Olympics 20th-century American people {{US-Olympic-medalist-stub ...
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1936 Summer Olympics Events
Events January–February * January 20 – George V of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Emperor of India, dies at his Sandringham Estate. The Prince of Wales succeeds to the throne of the United Kingdom as King Edward VIII. * January 28 – Britain's King George V state funeral takes place in London and Windsor. He is buried at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle * February 4 – Radium E (bismuth-210) becomes the first radioactive element to be made synthetically. * February 6 – The IV Olympic Winter Games open in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. * February 10– 19 – Second Italo-Ethiopian War: Battle of Amba Aradam – Italian forces gain a decisive tactical victory, effectively neutralizing the army of the Ethiopian Empire. * February 16 – 1936 Spanish general election: The left-wing Popular Front coalition takes a majority. * February 26 – February 26 Incident (二・二六事件, ''Niniroku Jiken''): The Impe ...
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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 10 August 1936 to Saturday 15 August 1936. Medal summary The events are labelled as 3 metre springboard and 10 metre platform by the International Olympic Committee, and appeared on the 1937 Official Report as ''springboard diving'' and ''high diving'', respectively.Organisationskomitee für die XI. Olympiade Berlin 1936 e.V., p. 301. 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.Official Report, p. 962. For men, "All dives were executed from 10 m. board." Meanwhile, women still dived from both 10 and 5 metre heights.Official Report, p. 982. For women, compulsory dives listed include two from 5 metres and two from 10 metres. Men Women Participating nations A total of 69 divers (39 men and 30 women) from 2 ...
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Käthe Köhler
Käthe Köhler (born 10 November 1913; date of death unknown) was a German diver who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics The 1936 Summer Olympics (German: ''Olympische Sommerspiele 1936''), officially known as the Games of the XI Olympiad (German: ''Spiele der XI. Olympiade'') and commonly known as Berlin 1936 or the Nazi Olympics, were an international multi-sp .... In 1936 she won the bronze medal in the 10 metre platform event. References 1913 births Year of death missing German female divers Olympic divers of Germany Divers at the 1936 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for Germany Olympic medalists in diving Medalists at the 1936 Summer Olympics 20th-century German women {{Germany-Olympic-medalist-stub ...
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Velma Dunn
Velma Clancy Dunn (later ''Ploessel'', October 9, 1918 – May 8, 2007) was an American diver who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics. She was born in Monrovia, California and died in Whittier, California Whittier () is a city in Southern California in Los Angeles County, California, Los Angeles County, part of the Gateway Cities. The city had 87,306 residents as of the 2020 United States census, an increase of 1,975 from the 2010 United States .... In 1936 she won the silver medal in the 10 metre platform event. References External linksObituary 1918 births 2007 deaths American female divers Divers at the 1936 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists for the United States in diving Medalists at the 1936 Summer Olympics 20th-century American women 21st-century American women {{US-Olympic-medalist-stub ...
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Dorothy Poynton-Hill
Dorothy Poynton-Hill (née ''Poynton'', later ''Teuber''; July 17, 1915 – May 18, 1995) was an American diving (sport), diver who competed at the 1928 Summer Olympics, 1928, 1932 Summer Olympics, 1932 and 1936 Summer Olympics. She won the 10 m platform event in 1932 and 1936, while in the 3 m springboard she took a silver in 1928 and a bronze in 1936. In 1928, at age 13 she became the youngest Olympian to win a medal and, in 1936, the first Olympic diver to win the 10 m platform twice. After retiring from competitions, Poynton-Hill ran an aquatic club in Los Angeles and appeared in several TV commercials. In 1968, she was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame. See also * List of members of the International Swimming Hall of Fame References External links

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Katherine Rawls
Katherine Louise Rawls (June 14, 1917 – April 8, 1982), also known by her married names Katherine Thompson and Katherine Green, was an American competition swimmer and diver. She was the United States national champion in multiple events during the 1930s. Swimming career Rawls was born in Nashville, Tennessee. She learned to swim at the age of two,Nason, p. 199 in Saint Augustine, Florida, and took up diving at the age of seven in Tampa, from a 25-foot (7.6m) platform.Nason, p. 201 During her swimming career she was sometimes called Katy Rawls and nicknamed The Minnow. Her sisters Dorothy (later Mrs. Williams), and Evelyn (McKee), were also Florida state champion swimmers, and the siblings were known collectively as "Rawls' Diving Trio". Together with sister Peggy (Wedgworth) and brother Sonny, a champion diver,Pieroth, p. 64 the children went to junior contests and exhibitions, as "Rawls' Water Babies". Rawls caused a sensation at the 1931 U.S. National Championships aged j ...
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Marjorie Gestring
Marjorie Gestring (November 18, 1922 – April 20, 1992) was a competitive springboard diver from the United States. At the age of 13 years and 268 days, she won the gold medal in 3-meter springboard diving at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, making her at the time the youngest person ever to win an Olympic gold medal. A multi-time national diving champion in the United States, she was given a second Olympic gold medal by the United States Olympic Committee after the 1940 Summer Olympics were called off due to the advent of World War II. Gestring attempted to return to the Olympics at the 1948 Games, but failed to qualify for the US team. She has been inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame and the Stanford Athletic Hall of Fame. Diving career Gestring won her first major title at the Amateur Athletic Union meeting at Chicago in 1936. In the tryouts for the 1936 Summer Olympics for the United States team, she placed second behind Katherine Rawls in qualifying ...
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Hermann Stork
Hermann Stork (30 August 1911 – 12 June 1962) was a German diver who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics The 1936 Summer Olympics (German: ''Olympische Sommerspiele 1936''), officially known as the Games of the XI Olympiad (German: ''Spiele der XI. Olympiade'') and commonly known as Berlin 1936 or the Nazi Olympics, were an international multi-sp .... In 1936 he won the bronze medal in the 10 metre platform event. References 1911 births 1962 deaths German male divers Olympic divers for Germany Divers at the 1936 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for Germany Olympic medalists in diving Medalists at the 1936 Summer Olympics European Aquatics Championships medalists in diving 20th-century German people {{Germany-Olympic-medalist-stub ...
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Alan Greene
Alan Greene (August 29, 1911 – March 12, 2001) was an American diver who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics. In 1936 he won the bronze medal in the 3 m springboard event. References 1911 births 2001 deaths Divers at the 1936 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for the United States in diving American male divers Medalists at the 1936 Summer Olympics 20th-century American people 21st-century American people {{US-Olympic-medalist-stub ...
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Diving At The 1932 Summer Olympics
At the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, four diving events were organized, two for men, and two for women. The competitions were held from Monday, 8 August 1932 to Saturday, 13 August 1932. Medal summary The events are labelled as 3 metre springboard and 10 metre platform by the International Olympic Committee, and appeared on the 1932 Official Report as ''springboard diving'' and ''high diving'', respectively. The platform events included dives from both 10 metre and 5 metre platforms, but, from now on, the springboard events were reduced to dives from the 3 metre board. Men Women Participating nations A total of 28 divers (17 men and 11 women) from nine nations (men from seven nations – women from seven nations) competed at the Los Angeles Games: * (men:1 women:1) * (men:2 women:1) * (men:0 women:1) * (men:1 women:0) * (men:1 women:1) * (men:3 women:1) * (men:5 women:0) * (men:0 women:1) * (men:4 women:5) Medal table References {{DEFAULTSORT:Diving ...
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