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Diving at the 1912 Summer Olympics – Women's plain high diving

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Men's plain high diving
at the Games of the V Olympiad
VenueStockholm Olympic Stadium
DatesJuly 10
Competitors14 from 3 nations
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Greta Johansson  Sweden
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Lisa Regnell  Sweden
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Belle White  Great Britain
1920 →

The women's plain high diving was one of four diving events on the diving at the 1912 Summer Olympics programme. The competition was held on Monday July 10, 1912.

Results

First round

The divers who scored the smallest number of points in each group of the first round plus the four best scoring non-qualified divers of all groups advanced to the final. Ordinal placings were used to rank divers within the group, but were not used to determine qualification. Seven dives, four compulsory, two from 5 metres and two from 10 metres, and three optional dives from 10 metres

Group 1

Place Diver Points Score
1  Greta Johansson (SWE) 5 36.2
2  Lisa Regnell (SWE) 13 34.1
3  Belle White (GBR) 14 33.9
4  Tora Larsson (SWE) 21 31.0
5  Selma Andersson (SWE) 23 30.6
6  Elsa Andersson (SWE) 25 29.7
7  Willy Thulin (SWE) 35 25.0
-  Märta Adlerz (SWE) 39 21.9

Group 2

Place Diver Points Score
1  Ella Eklund (SWE) 7 34.4
2  Elsa Regnell (SWE) 8 34.9
3  Gerda Johansson (SWE) 16 28.7
4  Dagmar Nilsson (SWE) 19 27.3
5  Ester Edström (SWE) 23 26.3
6  Hanny Kellner (SWE) - DNF

Final

In the final, ordinal placings were the primary ranking method with dive scores being used only to break ties. Seven dives, four compulsory, two from 5 metres and two from 10 metres, and three optional dives from 10 metres.

Place Diver Points Score
1  Greta Johansson (SWE) 5 39.9
2  Lisa Regnell (SWE) 11 36.0
3  Belle White (GBR) 17 34.0
4  Elsa Regnell (SWE) 20 33.2
5  Ella Eklund (SWE) 22 31.9
6  Elsa Andersson (SWE) 25 31.3
7  Selma Andersson (SWE) 36 28.3
-  Tora Larsson (SWE) 39 26.8

References

  • Swedish Olympic Committee; Erik Bergvall (December 1913). "The Official Report of the Olympic Games of Stockholm 1912" (pdf). Wahlström & Widstrand. Retrieved 2006-12-23.
  • Herman de Wael (2001-08-06). "Diving 1912". Retrieved 2006-12-24.