Diving at the 1912 Summer Olympics explained

Event:	Diving
Games:	1912 Summer
Venue:	Djurgårdsbrunnsviken
Dates:	through
Num Events:	4
Competitors:	57
Nations:	10
Prev:	1908
Next:	1920

At the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm, four diving events were contested. For the first time, women competed in diving at the Olympic Games. The competitions were held from Saturday 6 July 1912 to Monday 15 July 1912.^[1]

Medal summary

The events are labelled as 10 metre platform, 3 metre springboard and plain high diving by the International Olympic Committee,^[2] and appeared on the 1912 Official Report as Plain and Variety Diving combined, Spring-board Diving and High (plain) Diving.^[3] The high diving events included dives from both 10 metre and 5 metre platforms, while the springboard diving included dives from 3 metre and 1 metre springboards.

Men

3 m springboard
10 m platform
Plain high diving

Women

10 m platform

Participating nations

A total of 57 divers (43 men and 14 women) from 10 nations (men from 9 nations - women from 3 nations) competed at the Stockholm Games:

(men:0 women:1)
(men:2 women:0)
(men:6 women:0)
(men:4 women:0)
(men:2 women:1)
(men:1 women:0)
(men:3 women:0)
(men:1 women:0)
(men:22 women:12)
(men:2 women:0)

References

Web site: Olympic Medal Winners . . 20 November 2006 .
Web site: The Official Report of the Olympic Games of Stockholm 1912 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080410231505/http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1912/1912.pdf . dead . 10 April 2008 . 23 December 2006 . Swedish Olympic Committee . Swedish Olympic Committee . Erik Bergvall . Erik Bergvall . December 1913 . pdf . Wahlström & Widstrand .

Notes and References

Diving at the 1912 Stockholm Summer Games . 11 May 2020.
http://olympic.org/uk/athletes/results/search_r_uk.asp IOC medals database
Swedish Olympic Committee, pp. 993-4.