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

Men's plain high diving at the Games of the V Olympiad
Erik Adlerz, Hjalmar Johansson and John Jansson
Venue	Stockholm Olympic Stadium
Dates	6–11 July
Competitors	31 from 9 nations
Medalists
Erik Adlerz  Sweden Hjalmar Johansson  Sweden John Jansson  Sweden
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Diving at the 1912 Summer Olympics
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The men's plain high diving was one of four diving events on the diving at the 1912 Summer Olympics programme. The competition was held on Saturday 6 July 1912, on Sunday 7 July 1912, and on Thursday 11 July 1912. Thirty-one divers from nine nations competed.^[1]

Results[edit]

The competition was actually held from both 10 metre and 5 metre platforms. Divers performed a total of five dives: a standing dive and two running dives from the 10 metre platform, and a standing dive and a running dive from the 5 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[edit]

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.

Group 1[edit]

Rank	Diver	Nation	Points	Score	Notes
1	Paul Günther	Germany	8	36.1	Q
2	Torsten Eriksson	Sweden	11	35.8
3	Tauno Ilmoniemi	Finland	13	35.0
4	Alfred Johansson	Sweden	14	34.7
5	Nils Tvedt	Norway	25	31.7
6	Elis Holmer	Sweden	31	30.2
7	Sigvard Andersen	Norway	32	28.6
-	Viktor Baranov	Russia	-	DNF

Group 2[edit]

Rank	Diver	Nation	Points	Score	Notes
1	John Jansson	Sweden	5	38.3	Q
2	George Gaidzik	United States	13	36.2
3	George Yvon	Great Britain	17	35.2
4	Gunnar Ekstrand	Sweden	18	35.3
5	Arthur McAleenan	United States	20	34.9
6	Carlo Bonfanti	Italy	32	28.5
7	Alfred Engelsen	Norway	33	28.3

Group 3[edit]

Rank	Diver	Nation	Points	Score	Notes
1	Hjalmar Johansson	Sweden	7	40.1	Q
2	Toivo Aro	Finland	10	39.4	q
3	Axel Runström	Sweden	15	38.3	q
4	Ernst Brandsten	Sweden	19	37.7	q
5	Viktor Crondahl	Sweden	22	37.0	q
6	Hans Luber	Germany	27	36.2
7	Kurt Behrens	Germany	31	35.1
8	John P. Lyons	Canada	40	32.5
9	Jens Stefenson	Sweden	44	31.2

Group 4[edit]

Rank	Diver	Nation	Points	Score	Notes
1	Erik Adlerz	Sweden	5	39.9	Q
2	Oskar Wetzell	Finland	13	33.8
3	Kalle Kainuvaara	Finland	14	33.2
4	Albert Nyman	Finland	21	32.0
5	Leo Suni	Finland	22	32.1
6	Albert Zürner	Germany	26	31.7
7	Sven Montan	Sweden	31	30.2

Final[edit]

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

Rank	Diver	Nation	Points	Score
	Erik Adlerz	Sweden	7	40.0
	Hjalmar Johansson	Sweden	12	39.3
	John Jansson	Sweden	12	39.1
4	Viktor Crondahl	Sweden	22	37.1
5	Toivo Aro	Finland	26	36.3
6	Axel Runström	Sweden	26	36.0
7	Ernst Brandsten	Sweden	28	36.2
-	Paul Günther	Germany	-	DNF

References[edit]

Sources[edit]

• Swedish Olympic Committee; Erik Bergvall (December 1913). "The Official Report of the Olympic Games of Stockholm 1912" (PDF). Wahlström & Widstrand. Archived from the original (pdf) on 10 April 2008. Retrieved 23 December 2006.
• Herman de Wael (6 August 2001). "Diving 1912". Archived from the original on 5 July 2007. Retrieved 24 December 2006.