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

Men's platform diving at the Games of the V Olympiad
Erik Adlerz on the way to the gold medal.
Venue	Stockholm Olympic Stadium
Dates	July 12–15
Competitors	23 from 7 nations
Medalists
Erik Adlerz   Sweden   Albert Zürner   Germany   Gustaf Blomgren   Sweden

Diving at the 1912 Summer Olympics
3 m springboard		men
10 m platform		men		women
Plain high diving		men

The men's 10 metre platform, also known as plain and variety diving combined competition, was one of four diving events on the Diving at the 1912 Summer Olympics programme. The competition was held from Friday July 12, 1912 to Monday July 15, 1912.

Twenty-three divers from seven nations competed.

Results

Albert Zürner on the way to the silver medal.

Toivo Aro who finished eighth in action.

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

The two divers who scored the smallest number of points in each group of the first round plus the two 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

Place	Diver	Points	Score
1	Hjalmar Johansson (SWE)	9	68.06
2	Albert Zürner (GER)	14	65.04
3	Hans Luber (GER)	23	61.66
4	Gösta Sjöberg (SWE)	24	62.08
5	Ernst Brandsten (SWE)	24	61.42
6	George Gaidzik (USA)	25	62.56
7	John Jansson (SWE)	27	59.75
8	Kurt Behrens (GER)	33	58.35
9	Leo Suni (FIN)	45	48.93

Group 2

Place	Diver	Points	Score
1	Erik Adlerz (SWE)	6	74.76
2	Gustaf Blomgren (SWE)	9	68.50
3	Harald Arbin (SWE)	15	62.75
4	Ernst Eklund (SWE)	20	59.94
5	Sigvard Andersen (NOR)	25	56.40
6	Oskar Wetzell (FIN)	32	50.46
7	Kalle Kainuvaara (FIN)	33	48.10
-	Arthur McAleenan (USA)	-	DNF

Group 3

Place	Diver	Points	Score
1	Alvin Carlsson (SWE)	7	66.98
2	George Yvon (GBR)	9	65.70
3	Toivo Aro (FIN)	16	62.75
4	Robert Andersson (SWE)	18	60.39
5	Jens Stefenson (SWE)	25	41.54
-	John P. Lyons (CAN)	-	DNF

Final

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

Place	Diver	Points	Score
01 !	Erik Adlerz (SWE)	7	73.94
02 !	Albert Zürner (GER)	10	72.60
03 !	Gustaf Blomgren (SWE)	16	69.56
4	Hjalmar Johansson (SWE)	22	67.80
5	George Yvon (GBR)	22	67.66
6	Harald Arbin (SWE)	31	62.62
7	Alvin Carlsson (SWE)	32	63.16
8	Toivo Aro (FIN)	40	57.05

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.