Diving at the 1928 Summer Olympics – Women's 10 metre platform

Women's 10 metre platform at the Games of the IX Olympiad
Medalists
Elizabeth Becker-Pinkston  United States Georgia Coleman  United States Laura Sjöqvist  Sweden

The women's 10 metre platform, also reported as high diving, was one of four diving events on the diving at the 1928 Summer Olympics programme. The competition was actually held from both 10 metre and 5 metre boards. Divers performed a total of four compulsory dives: a standing plain header and running plain header from both the 10 metre and 5 metre platforms. The competition was held on Friday 10 August 1928, and on Saturday 11 August 1928. Seventeen divers from eight nations competed.^[1]

Results

First round

The three divers who scored the smallest number of points in each group of the first round advanced to the final.

Group 1

Rank	Diver	Nation	Points	Score	Notes
1	Elizabeth Becker-Pinkston	United States	6	32.00	Q
2	Georgia Coleman	United States	9.5	31.40	Q
3	Greta Onnela	Finland	21	28.00	Q
4	Isabelle White	Great Britain	22.5	27.80
5	Ingegärd Töpel	Sweden	24	27.00
6	Edith Nielsen	Denmark	29	26.20
7	Truus Klapwijk	Netherlands	31.5	26.00
8	Hjördis Töpel	Sweden	38.5	24.60
9	Margret Borgs	Germany	43	23.60

Group 2

Rank	Diver	Nation	Points	Score	Notes
1	Laura Sjöqvist	Sweden	8	29.20	Q
2	Mietje Baron	Netherlands	12	28.40	Q
3	Hanni Rehborn	Germany	14.5	28.20	Q
4	Renée Cretté-Flavier	France	17.5	27.60
5	Alida van Leeuwen	Netherlands	24	26.20
6	Clarita Hunsberger	United States	29.5	24.40
7	Doris Grimes	Great Britain	34.5	22.80
8	Kathleen Le Rossignol	Great Britain	39.5	19.80

Final

Rank	Diver	Nation	Points	Score
	Elizabeth Becker-Pinkston	United States	9	31.60
	Georgia Coleman	United States	10.5	30.60
	Laura Sjöqvist	Sweden	13.5	29.20
4	Mietje Baron	Netherlands	21	27.20
5	Greta Onnela	Finland	25	26.00
6	Hanni Rehborn	Germany	26	26.50

References

1. Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Diving at the 1928 Amsterdam Summer Games: Women's Platform". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 4 December 2016. Retrieved 13 May 2020.

Sources

• Netherlands Olympic Committee (1928). "The Ninth Olympiad Amsterdam 1928 - Official Report" (PDF). Amsterdam J. H. de Bussy, Ltd. pp. p. 794. Archived from the original (pdf) on 8 April 2008. Retrieved 29 December 2006.
• Herman de Wael (7 August 2001). "Diving - women's platform (Amsterdam 1928)". Retrieved 30 December 2006.