Diving at the 1912 Summer Olympics – Men's 10 metre platform

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Men's platform diving
at the Games of the V Olympiad
1912 Erik Adlerz in action.JPG
Erik Adlerz on the way to the gold medal.
Venue Stockholm Olympic Stadium
Dates12–15 July
Competitors23 from 7 nations
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg Erik Adlerz Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden
Silver medal icon.svg Albert Zürner Flag of the German Empire.svg  Germany
Bronze medal icon.svg Gustaf Blomgren Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden
  1908
1920  

The men's 10 metre platform, also known as plain and variety diving combined competition, was one of four diving events on the Diving at the 1912 Summer Olympics programme. The competition was held from Friday 12 July 1912 to Monday 15 July 1912. Twenty-three divers from seven nations competed. [1]

Results

Albert Zurner on the way to the silver medal. 1912 Albert Zurner in action.JPG
Albert Zürner on the way to the silver medal.
Toivo Aro who finished eighth in action. 1912 Toivo Aro in action.JPG
Toivo Aro who finished eighth in action.

The competition was actually held from both 10 metre and 5 metre platforms. Divers performed a standing plain dive and a running plain dive from the 10 metre platform, a running plain dive and a backward somersault from the 5 metre platform, and three dives of the competitor's choice from the 10 metre platform. Five judges scored each diver, giving two results. Each judge gave an ordinal placing for each diver in a group, with the five scores being summed to give a total ordinal points score. The judges also gave scores more closely resembling the modern scoring system.

First round

The two divers who scored the smallest number of points in each group of the first round plus the two best scoring non-qualified divers of all groups advanced to the final. Ordinal placings were used to rank divers within the group, but were not used to determine qualification.

Group 1

RankDiverNationPointsScoreNotes
1 Hjalmar Johansson Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden 968.06Q
2 Albert Zürner Flag of the German Empire.svg  Germany 1465.04Q
3 Hans Luber Flag of the German Empire.svg  Germany 2361.66
4 Gösta Sjöberg Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden 2462.08
5 Ernst Brandsten Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden 2461.42
6 George Gaidzik US flag 48 stars.svg  United States 2562.56
7 John Jansson Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden 2759.75
8 Kurt Behrens Flag of the German Empire.svg  Germany 3358.35
9 Leo Suni Flag of Russia.svg  Finland 4548.93

Group 2

RankDiverNationPointsScoreNotes
1 Erik Adlerz Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden 674.76Q
2 Gustaf Blomgren Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden 968.50Q
3 Harald Arbin Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden 1562.75q
4 Ernst Eklund Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden 2059.94
5 Sigvard Andersen Flag of Norway.svg  Norway 2556.40
6 Oskar Wetzell Flag of Russia.svg  Finland 3250.46
7 Kalle Kainuvaara Flag of Russia.svg  Finland 3348.10
- Arthur McAleenan US flag 48 stars.svg  United States DNF

Group 3

RankDiverNationPointsScoreNotes
1 Alvin Carlsson Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden 766.98Q
2 George Yvon Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain 965.70Q
3 Toivo Aro Flag of Russia.svg  Finland 1662.75q
4 Robert Andersson Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden 1860.39
5 Jens Stefenson Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden 2541.54
- John P. Lyons Flag of Canada (1868-1921).svg  Canada DNF

Final

In the final, ordinal placings were the primary ranking method with dive scores being used only to break ties.

RankDiverNationPointsScore
Gold medal icon.svg Erik Adlerz Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden 773.94
Silver medal icon.svg Albert Zürner Flag of the German Empire.svg  Germany 1072.60
Bronze medal icon.svg Gustaf Blomgren Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden 1669.56
4 Hjalmar Johansson Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden 2267.80
5 George Yvon Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain 2267.66
6 Harald Arbin Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden 3162.62
7 Alvin Carlsson Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden 3263.16
8 Toivo Aro Flag of Russia.svg  Finland 4057.05

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References

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