At the 1936 Summer Olympics in

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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

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/ref> 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

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, 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 21 nations (men from 20 nations - women from 11 nations) competed at the Berlin Games: * (men:1 women:0) * (men:1 women:2) * (men:1 women:2) * (men:3 women:0) * (men:0 women:2) * (men:4 women:0) * (men:1 women:0) * (men:1 women:1) * (men:5 women:6) * (men:2 women:4) * (men:2 women:0) * (men:3 women:0) * (men:2 women:3) * (men:1 women:0) * (men:1 women:0) * (men:1 women:2) * (men:1 women:0) * (men:1 women:2) * (men:2 women:1) * (men:5 women:5) * (men:1 women:0)

Medal table

Notes

References

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