At the

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diving Diving most often refers to: * Diving (sport), the sport of jumping into deep water * Underwater diving, human activity underwater for recreational or occupational purposes Diving or Dive may also refer to: Sports * Dive (American football), a ...

events were contested.

Medal summary

The events are labelled as 3 metre springboard and 10 metre platform by the

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/ref> and appeared on the 1956 Official Report as ''springboard diving'' and ''high diving'', respectively.The Organising Committee of the XVI Olympiad Melbourne 1956, pp. 591, 594.

Men

Women

Medal table

Participating nations

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Notes

References

* * {{Diving at the Summer Olympics 1956 Summer Olympics events 1956 1956 in water sports Diving in Australia