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

Event:Women's 10 metre platform
Games:1928 Summer
Longnames:yes
Gold:Elizabeth Becker-Pinkston
Goldnoc:USA
Silver:Georgia Coleman
Silvernoc:USA
Bronze:Laura Sjöqvist
Bronzenoc:SWE
Prev:1924
Next:1932

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]

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

Rank Diver Nation Points Score Notes
1 6 32.00
2 9.5 31.40
3 21 28.00
4 22.5 27.80
5 24 27.00
6 29 26.20
7 31.5 26.00
8 38.5 24.60
9 43 23.60

Group 2

Rank Diver Nation Points Score Notes
1 8 29.20
2 12 28.40
3 14.5 28.20
4 17.5 27.60
5 24 26.20
6 29.5 24.40
7 34.5 22.80
8 39.5 19.80

Final

Rank Diver Nation Points Score
9 31.60
10.5 30.60
13.5 29.20
4 21 27.20
5 25 26.00
6 26 26.50

Sources

Notes and References

  1. Diving at the 1928 Amsterdam Summer Games: Women's Platform . 13 May 2020.