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Diving at the 1928 Summer Olympics – Men's 10 metre platform

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Men's 10 metre platform
at the Games of the IX Olympiad
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Pete Desjardins  United States
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Farid Simaika  Egypt
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Michael Galitzen  United States
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The men's 10 metre platform, also reported as high diving, was one of four diving events on the diving at the 1928 Summer Olympics programme. The competition was actually held from both 10 metre and 5 metre boards. Divers performed four compulsory dives – running plain dive, backward somersault (5 metre platform), standing plain dive, running plain dive (10 metre platform) – and four dives of the competitor's choice (different from the compulsory), from either platform, for a total of eight dives. The competition was held from Thursday 9 August 1928 to Saturday 11 August 1928. Twenty-four divers from twelve nations competed.[1]

Results

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First round

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The three divers who scored the smallest number of points in each group of the first round advanced to the final.

Group 1

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Rank Diver Nation Points Score Notes
1 Walter Colbath  United States 5 91.68 Q
2 Albert Knight  Great Britain 14 83.48 Q
3 Karl Schumm  Germany 14 81.44 Q
4 Helge Öberg  Sweden 17 80.36
5 Armand Billard  France 25 67.96
6 Abdel Moneim Mokhtar  Egypt 31 59.14
7 Harry Morris  Australia 34 53.42
8 Emanuel Davidson  Netherlands 40 46.40
9 Luigi Cangiullo  Italy DNF

Group 2

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Rank Diver Nation Points Score Notes
1 Farid Simaika  Egypt 6 102.38 Q
2 Michael Galitzen  United States 9 98.56 Q
3 Julius Rehborn  Germany 15 83.46 Q
4 Eugène Lenormand  France 24 74.12
5 Eugen Ahnström  Sweden 25 73.08
6 Josef Staudinger  Austria 26 73.32
7 Thomas Mather  Great Britain 35 55.10

Group 3

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Rank Diver Nation Points Score Notes
1 Pete Desjardins  United States 5 104.52 Q
2 Ewald Riebschläger  Germany 11 81.98 Q
3 Alfred Phillips  Canada 14 78.42 Q
4 Yrjö Lampila  Finland 21 72.34
5 Wilfred Burne  Great Britain 25 71.20
6 Henk Lotgering  Netherlands 33 67.76
7 Gösta Horn  Sweden 35 63.84
8 Ezio Selva  Italy 36 61.56

Final

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Simiaka was originally announced as the winner of the competition, and the Egyptian national anthem was played. The officials then declared that a mistake had been made, and that the number of judges ranking the diver higher, not total points or score, determined the winner. Four of the five judges had placed Desjardins 1st and Simaika 2nd; only one judge had Simaika 1st and Desjardins 2nd. Consequently, Desjardins was awarded his second gold medal.[2]

Rank Diver Nation Points Score
Judge 1 Judge 2 Judge 3 Judge 4 Judge 5 Total
1st place, gold medalist(s) Pete Desjardins  United States 2 1 1 1 1 6 98.74
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Farid Simaika  Egypt 1 2 2 2 2 9 99.58
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Michael Galitzen  United States 3 3 3 3 3 15 92.34
4 Walter Colbath  United States 4 5 4 4 4 21 85.78
5 Ewald Riebschläger  Germany 5 4 6 5 7 27 82.44
6 Karl Schumm  Germany 6 6 5 6 5 28 80.54
7 Alfred Phillips  Canada 7 7 7 8 6 35 77.26
8 Albert Knight  Great Britain 9 9 8 7 8 41 72.22
9 Julius Rehborn  Germany 8 8 9 9 9 43 67.78

References

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  1. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Diving at the 1928 Amsterdam Summer Games: Men's Platform". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 4 December 2016. Retrieved 13 May 2020.
  2. ^ Wallechinsky, David (1984). The Complete Book of the Olympics. England: Penguin Books. p. 417. ISBN 0140066322.

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