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

The women'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 a total of four compulsory dives: a standing plain header and running plain header from both the 10 metre and 5 metre platforms. The competition was held on Friday 10 August 1928, and on Saturday 11 August 1928. Seventeen divers from eight nations competed.[1]

Women's 10 metre platform
at the Games of the IX Olympiad
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Elizabeth Becker-Pinkston
 United States
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Georgia Coleman
 United States
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Laura Sjöqvist
 Sweden
← 1924
1932 →

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 Elizabeth Becker-Pinkston   United States 6 32.00 Q
2 Georgia Coleman   United States 9.5 31.40 Q
3 Greta Onnela   Finland 21 28.00 Q
4 Isabelle White   Great Britain 22.5 27.80
5 Ingegärd Töpel   Sweden 24 27.00
6 Edith Nielsen   Denmark 29 26.20
7 Truus Klapwijk   Netherlands 31.5 26.00
8 Hjördis Töpel   Sweden 38.5 24.60
9 Margret Borgs   Germany 43 23.60

Group 2

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Rank Diver Nation Points Score Notes
1 Laura Sjöqvist   Sweden 8 29.20 Q
2 Mietje Baron   Netherlands 12 28.40 Q
3 Hanni Rehborn   Germany 14.5 28.20 Q
4 Renée Cretté-Flavier   France 17.5 27.60
5 Alida van Leeuwen   Netherlands 24 26.20
6 Clarita Hunsberger   United States 29.5 24.40
7 Doris Grimes   Great Britain 34.5 22.80
8 Kathleen Le Rossignol   Great Britain 39.5 19.80

Final

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Rank Diver Nation Points Score
  Elizabeth Becker-Pinkston   United States 9 31.60
  Georgia Coleman   United States 10.5 30.60
  Laura Sjöqvist   Sweden 13.5 29.20
4 Mietje Baron   Netherlands 21 27.20
5 Greta Onnela   Finland 25 26.00
6 Hanni Rehborn   Germany 26 26.50

References

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  1. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Diving at the 1928 Amsterdam Summer Games: Women's Platform". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 4 December 2016. Retrieved 13 May 2020.

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