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

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 springboard   men   women
10 m platform   men   women

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 August 9, 1928 to Saturday August 11, 1928.

Twenty-four divers from twelve nations competed.

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

Place Diver Points Score
1  Walter Colbath (USA) 5 91.68
2  Albert Knight (GBR) 14 83.48
3  Karl Schumm (GER) 14 81.44
4  Helge Öberg (SWE) 17 80.36
5  Armand Billard (FRA) 25 67.96
6  Abdel Moneim Mokhtar (EGY) 31 59.14
7  Harry Morris (AUS) 34 53.42
8  Emanuel Davidson (NED) 40 46.40
9  Luigi Cangiullo (ITA) DNF

Group 2

Place Diver Points Score
1  Farid Simaika (EGY) 6 102.38
2  Michael Galitzen (USA) 9 98.56
3  Julius Rehborn (GER) 15 83.46
4  Eugène Lenormand (FRA) 24 74.12
5  Eugen Ahnström (SWE) 25 73.08
6  Josef Staudinger (AUT) 26 73.32
7  Thomas Mather (GBR) 35 55.10

Group 3

Place Diver Points Score
1  Pete Desjardins (USA) 5 104.52
2  Ewald Riebschläger (GER) 11 81.98
3  Alfred Phillips (CAN) 14 78.42
4  Yrjö Lampila (FIN) 21 72.34
5  William Burne (GBR) 25 71.20
6  Henk Lotgering (NED) 33 67.76
7  Gustaf Horn (SWE) 35 63.84
8  Ezio Selva (ITA) 36 61.56

Final

Place Diver Points Score
1  Pete Desjardins (USA) 6 98.74
2  Farid Simaika (EGY) 9 99.58
3  Michael Galitzen (USA) 15 92.34
4  Walter Colbath (USA) 21 85.78
5  Ewald Riebschläger (GER) 27 82.44
6  Karl Schumm (GER) 28 80.54
7  Alfred Phillips (CAN) 35 77.26
8  Albert Knight (GBR) 41 72.22
9  Julius Rehborn (GER) 43 67.78

References

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