Diving at the 1928 Summer Olympics – Men's 3 metre springboard
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The men's 3 metre springboard, also reported as fancy diving, was one of four diving events on the diving at the 1928 Summer Olympics programme. The competition was actually held from both 3 metre and 1 metre boards. Divers performed five compulsory dives from the 3 metre board – running plain header forward, standing backward header, running isander (half gainer), backward spring and forward dive, running header forward with half screw – and six dives of the competitor's choice (different from the compulsory), from either board, for a total of eleven dives. The competition was held from Monday 6 August 1928 to Wednesday 8 August 1928. Twenty-three divers from fifteen nations competed.[1]
Results
First round
A point-for-place system was used to determine qualification for the final. Each of the five judges arrived at a final score for each diver. The diver with the best score from a judge received 1 point, second-best received 2 points, and so on; this process repeated for each judge. The three divers who scored the smallest number of points in each group of the first round advanced to the final.[1]
Group 1
| Place | Diver | Nation | Points | Score |
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| 1 | Pete Desjardins | File:US flag 48 stars.svg United States | 5 | 182.10 |
| 2 | Heinz Plumanns | File:Flag of Germany (3-2 aspect ratio).svg Germany | 12 | 148 |
| 3 | Alfred Phillips | File:Flag of Canada (1921–1957).svg Canada | 17 | 134.10 |
| 4 | Luciano Cozzi | File:Flag of Italy (1861-1946).svg Italy | 20 | 129.14 |
| 5 | Edmund Lindmark | File:Flag of Sweden.svg Sweden | 22 | 123.70 |
| 6 | Henk Lotgering | File:Flag of the Netherlands.svg Netherlands | 29 | 112.98 |
| 7 | Armand Billard | File:Flag of France.svg France | 37 | 101.44 |
| 8 | Josef Nesvadba | File:Flag of Czechoslovakia.svg Czechoslovakia | 38 | 102.48 |
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Group 2
| Place | Diver | Nation | Points | Score |
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| 1 | Michael Galitzen | File:US flag 48 stars.svg United States | 5 | 178.94 |
| 2 | Farid Simaika | File:Flag of Egypt (1922–1953).svg Egypt | 10 | 164.96 |
| 3 | Ewald Riebschläger | File:Flag of Germany (3-2 aspect ratio).svg Germany | 15 | 151.20 |
| 4 | Julius Balasz | File:Flag of Czechoslovakia.svg Czechoslovakia | 20 | 139.24 |
| 5 | Curt Sjöberg | File:Flag of Sweden.svg Sweden | 27 | 129.26 |
| 6 | Josef Staudinger | File:Flag of Austria.svg Austria | 28 | 128.54 |
| 7 | Arthur Bischoff | File:Civil Ensign of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Switzerland | 35 | 100.14 |
| 8 | Harry Morris | File:Flag of Australia.svg Australia | 40 | 94.96 |
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Group 3
| Place | Diver | Nation | Points | Score |
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| 1 | Harold Smith | File:US flag 48 stars.svg United States | 5 | 169.70 |
| 2 | Arthur Mund | File:Flag of Germany (3-2 aspect ratio).svg Germany | 11 | 148.48 |
| 3 | Fumio Takashina | File:Flag of Japan (1870-1999).svg Japan | 14 | 139.82 |
| 4 | Maurice Lepage | File:Flag of France.svg France | 21 | 132.52 |
| 5 | Louis Gompers | File:Flag of the Netherlands.svg Netherlands | 24 | 123.24 |
| 6 | Federico Mariscal | File:Flag of Mexico (1916–1934).svg Mexico | 31 | 88.84 |
| 7 | Stanley C. Mercer | File:Flag of the United Kingdom (3-2).svg Great Britain | 34 | 81.84 |
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Final
The Official Report shows both the raw scores and the points determined via the point-for-place system used in the preliminary round. However, neither was used to determine the winners. Instead, the divers were ranked based on how many judges had scored them better than the next diver. Thus, Simaika (13 points) finished behind Galitzen (14 points) because 3 judges had given Galitzen higher scores (placing him 2nd and Simaika 3rd) and 2 judges had given Simaika higher scores (placing him 2nd, Smith 3rd, and Galitzen 4th—causing Galitzen to have a higher point-for-place score).[1]
| Rank | Diver | Nation | Points | Score | |||||
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| 1st place, gold medalist(s) | Pete Desjardins | File:US flag 48 stars.svg United States | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 185.04 |
| 2nd place, silver medalist(s) | Michael Galitzen | File:US flag 48 stars.svg United States | 2 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 14 | 174.06 |
| 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) | Farid Simaika | File:Flag of Egypt (1922–1953).svg Egypt | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 13 | 172.46 |
| 4 | Harold Smith | File:US flag 48 stars.svg United States | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 18 | 168.96 |
| 5 | Arthur Mund | File:Flag of Germany (3-2 aspect ratio).svg Germany | 6 | 5 | 5 | 7.5 | 6 | 29.5 | 154.72 |
| 6 | Ewald Riebschläger | File:Flag of Germany (3-2 aspect ratio).svg Germany | 7 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 31 | 153.86 |
| 7 | Alfred Phillips | File:Flag of Canada (1921–1957).svg Canada | 5 | 8 | 7 | 7.5 | 5 | 32.5 | 149.48 |
| 8 | Heinz Plumanns | File:Flag of Germany (3-2 aspect ratio).svg Germany | 8 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 8 | 37 | 150.18 |
| 9 | Fumo Takashina | File:Flag of Japan (1870-1999).svg Japan | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 45 | 139.78 |
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Diving at the 1928 Amsterdam Summer Games: Men's Springboard". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 12 May 2020.
Sources
- Netherlands Olympic Committee (1928). "The Ninth Olympiad Amsterdam 1928 - Official Report" (PDF). Amsterdam J. H. de Bussy, Ltd. pp. p. 774. Archived from the original (pdf) on 8 April 2008. Retrieved 29 December 2006.
- Herman de Wael (24 May 2001). "Diving - men's springboard (Amsterdam 1928)". Retrieved 29 December 2006.
