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
Gold medal icon.svg Pete Desjardins US flag 48 stars.svg  United States
Silver medal icon.svg Farid Simaika Flag of Egypt (1922-1953).svg  Egypt
Bronze medal icon.svg Michael Galitzen US flag 48 stars.svg  United States
  1924
1932  

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

First round

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

Group 1

RankDiverNationPointsScoreNotes
1 Walter Colbath US flag 48 stars.svg  United States 591.68Q
2 Albert Knight Flag of the United Kingdom (3-2).svg  Great Britain 1483.48Q
3 Karl Schumm Flag of Germany (3-2 aspect ratio).svg  Germany 1481.44Q
4 Helge Öberg Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden 1780.36
5 Armand Billard Flag of France.svg  France 2567.96
6 Abdel Moneim Mokhtar Flag of Egypt (1922-1953).svg  Egypt 3159.14
7 Harry Morris Flag of Australia.svg  Australia 3453.42
8 Emanuel Davidson Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands 4046.40
9 Luigi Cangiullo Flag of Italy (1861-1946).svg  Italy DNF

Group 2

RankDiverNationPointsScoreNotes
1 Farid Simaika Flag of Egypt (1922-1953).svg  Egypt 6102.38Q
2 Michael Galitzen US flag 48 stars.svg  United States 998.56Q
3 Julius Rehborn Flag of Germany (3-2 aspect ratio).svg  Germany 1583.46Q
4 Eugène Lenormand Flag of France.svg  France 2474.12
5 Eugen Ahnström Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden 2573.08
6 Josef Staudinger Flag of Austria.svg  Austria 2673.32
7 Thomas Mather Flag of the United Kingdom (3-2).svg  Great Britain 3555.10

Group 3

RankDiverNationPointsScoreNotes
1 Pete Desjardins US flag 48 stars.svg  United States 5104.52Q
2 Ewald Riebschläger Flag of Germany (3-2 aspect ratio).svg  Germany 1181.98Q
3 Alfred Phillips Flag of Canada (1921-1957).svg  Canada 1478.42Q
4 Yrjö Lampila Flag of Finland.svg  Finland 2172.34
5 Wilfred Burne Flag of the United Kingdom (3-2).svg  Great Britain 2571.20
6 Henk Lotgering Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands 3367.76
7 Gösta Horn Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden 3563.84
8 Ezio Selva Flag of Italy (1861-1946).svg  Italy 3661.56

Final

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]

RankDiverNationPointsScore
Judge 1Judge 2Judge 3Judge 4Judge 5Total
Gold medal icon.svg Pete Desjardins US flag 48 stars.svg  United States 21111698.74
Silver medal icon.svg Farid Simaika Flag of Egypt (1922-1953).svg  Egypt 12222999.58
Bronze medal icon.svg Michael Galitzen US flag 48 stars.svg  United States 333331592.34
4 Walter Colbath US flag 48 stars.svg  United States 454442185.78
5 Ewald Riebschläger Flag of Germany (3-2 aspect ratio).svg  Germany 546572782.44
6 Karl Schumm Flag of Germany (3-2 aspect ratio).svg  Germany 665652880.54
7 Alfred Phillips Flag of Canada (1921-1957).svg  Canada 777863577.26
8 Albert Knight Flag of the United Kingdom (3-2).svg  Great Britain 998784172.22
9 Julius Rehborn Flag of Germany (3-2 aspect ratio).svg  Germany 889994367.78

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References

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