Diving at the 1912 Summer Olympics – Women's 10 metre platform

The women's 10 metre platform, also known as high (plain) diving for ladies competition, was one of four diving events on the diving at the 1912 Summer Olympics programme. It was the first diving event for women at the Summer Olympic Games. The competition was held from Wednesday 10 July 1912, to Saturday 13 July 1912. Fourteen divers from three nations competed.[1]

Women's platform diving
at the Games of the V Olympiad
VenueStockholm Olympic Stadium
Dates10–13 July
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) Isabelle White  Great Britain
1920 →

Results

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The competition was actually held from both 10 metre and 5 metre platforms. Divers performed a standing plain dive and a running plain dive from the 10 metre platform, a running plain dive and a backward somersault from the 5 metre platform, and three dives of the competitor's choice from the 10 metre platform. Five judges scored each diver, giving two results. Each judge gave an ordinal placing for each diver in a group, with the five scores being summed to give a total ordinal points score. The judges also gave scores more closely resembling the modern scoring system.

First round

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The two 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.

Group 1

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Rank Diver Nation Points Score Notes
1 Greta Johansson   Sweden 5 36.2 Q
2 Lisa Regnell   Sweden 13 34.1 Q
3 Isabelle White   Great Britain 14 33.9 q
4 Tora Larsson   Sweden 21 31.0 q
5 Selma Andersson   Sweden 23 30.6 q
6 Elsa Andersson   Sweden 25 29.7 q
7 Willy Thulin   Sweden 35 25.0
8 Märta Adlerz   Sweden 39 21.9

Group 2

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Rank Diver Nation Points Score Notes
1 Ella Eklund   Sweden 7 34.4 Q
2 Elsa Regnell   Sweden 8 34.9 Q
3 Gerda Johansson   Sweden 16 28.7
4 Dagmar Nilsson   Sweden 19 27.3
5 Ester Edström   Sweden 23 26.3
Hanny Kellner   Austria DNF

Final

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In the final, ordinal placings were the primary ranking method with dive scores being used only to break ties.

Rank Diver Nation Points Score
  Greta Johansson   Sweden 5 39.9
  Lisa Regnell   Sweden 11 36.0
  Isabelle White   Great Britain 17 34.0
4 Elsa Regnell   Sweden 20 33.2
5 Ella Eklund   Sweden 22 31.9
6 Elsa Andersson   Sweden 25 31.3
7 Selma Andersson   Sweden 36 28.3
8 Tora Larsson   Sweden 39 26.8

References

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  1. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Diving at the 1912 Stockholm Summer Games: Women's Plain High". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 4 December 2016. Retrieved 11 May 2020.

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