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]
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Results edit
First round edit
The three divers who scored the smallest number of points in each group of the first round advanced to the final.
Group 1 edit
| 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 edit
| 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 edit
| 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 edit
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 | |||||
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| Judge 1 | Judge 2 | Judge 3 | Judge 4 | Judge 5 | Total | ||||
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Pete Desjardins | United States |
2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 98.74 |
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Farid Simaika | Egypt |
1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 99.58 |
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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 edit
- ^ 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.
- ^ Wallechinsky, David (1984). The Complete Book of the Olympics. England: Penguin Books. p. 417. ISBN 0140066322.
Sources edit
- Netherlands Olympic Committee (1928). "The Ninth Olympiad Amsterdam 1928 - Official Report" (PDF). Amsterdam J. H. de Bussy, Ltd. pp. p. 778. Archived from the original (pdf) on 8 April 2008. Retrieved 29 December 2006.
- Herman de Wael (26 January 2001). "Diving - men's platform (Amsterdam 1928)". Retrieved 30 December 2006.