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Diving at the 1928 Summer Olympics – Men's 3 metre springboard

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Men's 3 metre springboard
at the Games of the IX Olympiad
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Pete Desjardins  United States
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Michael Galitzen  United States
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Farid Simaika  Egypt
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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

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First round

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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

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Place Diver Nation Points Score
1 Pete Desjardins  United States 5 182.10
2 Heinz Plumanns  Germany 12 148
3 Alfred Phillips  Canada 17 134.10
4 Luciano Cozzi  Italy 20 129.14
5 Edmund Lindmark  Sweden 22 123.70
6 Henk Lotgering  Netherlands 29 112.98
7 Armand Billard  France 37 101.44
8 Josef Nesvadba  Czechoslovakia 38 102.48

Group 2

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Place Diver Nation Points Score
1 Michael Galitzen  United States 5 178.94
2 Farid Simaika  Egypt 10 164.96
3 Ewald Riebschläger  Germany 15 151.20
4 Julius Balasz  Czechoslovakia 20 139.24
5 Curt Sjöberg  Sweden 27 129.26
6 Josef Staudinger  Austria 28 128.54
7 Arthur Bischoff  Switzerland 35 100.14
8 Harry Morris  Australia 40 94.96

Group 3

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Place Diver Nation Points Score
1 Harold Smith  United States 5 169.70
2 Arthur Mund  Germany 11 148.48
3 Fumio Takashina  Japan 14 139.82
4 Maurice Lepage  France 21 132.52
5 Louis Gompers  Netherlands 24 123.24
6 Federico Mariscal  Mexico 31 88.84
7 Stanley C. Mercer  Great Britain 34 81.84

Final

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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
Judge 1 Judge 2 Judge 3 Judge 4 Judge 5 Total
1st place, gold medalist(s) Pete Desjardins  United States 1 1 1 1 1 5 185.04
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Michael Galitzen  United States 2 4 2 2 4 14 174.06
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Farid Simaika  Egypt 3 2 3 3 2 13 172.46
4 Harold Smith  United States 4 3 4 4 3 18 168.96
5 Arthur Mund  Germany 6 5 5 7.5 6 29.5 154.72
6 Ewald Riebschläger  Germany 7 6 6 5 7 31 153.86
7 Alfred Phillips  Canada 5 8 7 7.5 5 32.5 149.48
8 Heinz Plumanns  Germany 8 7 8 6 8 37 150.18
9 Fumo Takashina  Japan 9 9 9 9 9 45 139.78

References

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  1. ^ a b c 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.

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