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

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]

Men's 10 metre platform
at the Games of the IX Olympiad
Medalists
Pete Desjardins  United States
Farid Simaika  Egypt
Michael Galitzen  United States
Diving at the
1928 Summer Olympics
3 m springboardmenwomen
10 m platformmenwomen

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
1Walter Colbath United States591.68Q
2Albert Knight Great Britain1483.48Q
3Karl Schumm Germany1481.44Q
4Helge Öberg Sweden1780.36
5Armand Billard France2567.96
6Abdel Moneim Mokhtar Egypt3159.14
7Harry Morris Australia3453.42
8Emanuel Davidson Netherlands4046.40
9Luigi Cangiullo ItalyDNF

Group 2
RankDiverNationPointsScoreNotes
1Farid Simaika Egypt6102.38Q
2Michael Galitzen United States998.56Q
3Julius Rehborn Germany1583.46Q
4Eugène Lenormand France2474.12
5Eugen Ahnström Sweden2573.08
6Josef Staudinger Austria2673.32
7Thomas Mather Great Britain3555.10

Group 3
RankDiverNationPointsScoreNotes
1Pete Desjardins United States5104.52Q
2Ewald Riebschläger Germany1181.98Q
3Alfred Phillips Canada1478.42Q
4Yrjö Lampila Finland2172.34
5Wilfred Burne Great Britain2571.20
6Henk Lotgering Netherlands3367.76
7Gösta Horn Sweden3563.84
8Ezio Selva Italy3661.56

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
Pete Desjardins United States21111698.74
Farid Simaika Egypt12222999.58
Michael Galitzen United States333331592.34
4Walter Colbath United States454442185.78
5Ewald Riebschläger Germany546572782.44
6Karl Schumm Germany665652880.54
7Alfred Phillips Canada777863577.26
8Albert Knight Great Britain998784172.22
9Julius Rehborn Germany889994367.78

References
  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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