Diving at the 1928 Summer Olympics

At the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam, four diving events were contested. The men's plain high diving event was dropped from the Olympic program. The competitions were held from Monday, August 6, 1928 to Saturday, August 11, 1928.

Medal summary

The events are labelled as 3 metre springboard and 10 metre platform by the International Olympic Committee^[1], and appeared on the 1928 Official Report as fancy diving and high diving, respectively^[2]. The platform events included dives from both 10 metre and 5 metre platforms, while the springboard events included dives from 3 metre and 1 metre springboards.

Men

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
3 metre springboard details	Pete Desjardins United States (USA)	Michael Galitzen United States (USA)	Farid Simaika Egypt (EGY)
10 metre platform details	Pete Desjardins United States (USA)	Farid Simaika Egypt (EGY)	Michael Galitzen United States (USA)

Women

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
3 metre springboard details	Helen Meany United States (USA)	Dorothy Poynton United States (USA)	Georgia Coleman United States (USA)
10 metre platform details	Elizabeth Becker-Pinkston United States (USA)	Georgia Coleman United States (USA)	Laura Sjöqvist Sweden (SWE)

Participating nations

A total of 61 divers (38 men and 23 women) from 17 nations (men from 16 nations - women from 9 nations) competed at the Amsterdam Games:

• Australia (1) (men:1 women:0)
• Austria (2) (men:1 women:1)
• Canada (1) (men:1 women:0)
• Czechoslovakia (2) (men:2 women:0)
• Denmark (1) (men:0 women:1)
• Egypt (2) (men:2 women:0)
• Finland (2) (men:1 women:1)
• France (4) (men:3 women:1)
• Germany (9) (men:5 women:4)
• Great Britain (7) (men:4 women:3)
• Italy (3) (men:3 women:0)
• Japan (1) (men:1 women:0)
• Mexico (1) (men:1 women:0)
• Netherlands (7) (men:3 women:4)
• Sweden (8) (men:5 women:3)
• Switzerland (1) (men:1 women:0)
• United States (9) (men:4 women:5)

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States	4	3	2	9
2	Egypt	0	1	1	2
3	Sweden	0	0	1	1
Total		4	4	4	12

Notes

1. ^ "Olympic Medal Winners". International Olympic Committee. http://www.olympic.org/uk/athletes/results/search_r_uk.asp. Retrieved 2006-11-20. 
2. ^ Netherlands Olympic Committee (1928). "The Ninth Olympiad Amsterdam 1928 - Official Report, p. 747." (pdf). Amsterdam J. H. de Bussy, Ltd.. http://www.aafla.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1928/1928.pdf. Retrieved 2006-12-29.