Men Springboard Diving IX Olympic Games Amsterdam, Netherlands 1928 - Monday, 6th August and Wednesday, 8th August - Gold Medal: Pete Desjardins, United States
Venue: Olympisch Zwemstadion. 23 competitors from 15 nations.
FinalPtsScore
1. Pete DesjardinsUSAUSA5185.04
2. Michael GalitzenUSAUSA14174.06
3. Farid SimaikaEGYEGY13172.46
4. Harold SmithUSAUSA18168.96
5. Arthur MundGERGER29.5154.72
6. Ewald RiebschlägerGERGER31153.86
7. Alfred PhillipsCANCAN32.5149.48
8. Heinz PlumannsGERGER37150.18
9. Fumo TakashinaJPNJPN45139.78
A point-for-place system was used (except, for reasons unexplained, in determining the silver and bronze medalists).
The men 3 metre springboard, also reported as fancy diving.
The competition was actually held from both 3 metre and 1 metre boards.
Divers performed five compulsory dives from the 3 metre board – running plain header forward, standing backward header, running isander (half gainer), backward spring and forward dive, running header forward with half screw – and six dives of the competitor's choice (different from the compulsory), from either board, for a Total of eleven dives.
For each dive, the divers were ranked according to their dive score and awarded points based on their rank for that dive.

Semi-Finals

The three divers who scored the smallest number of points in each group of the first round advanced to the final.
Group 1
RankingPtsScore
1. Pete DesjardinsUSAUSA5182.10
2. Heinz PlumannsGERGER12148
3. Alfred PhillipsCANCAN17134.10
4. Luciano CozziITAITA20129.14
5. Edmund LindmarkSWESWE22123.70
6. Henk LotgeringNEDNED29112.98
7. Armand BillardFRAFRA37101.44
8. Josef NasvadbaTCHTCH38102.48
Group 2
RankingPtsScore
1. Michael GalitzenUSAUSA5178.94
2. Farid SimaikaEGYEGY10164.96
3. Ewald RiebschlägerGERGER15151.20
4. Julius BalaszTCHTCH20139.24
5. Curt SjöbergSWESWE27129.26
6. Josef StaudingerAUTAUT28128.54
7. Arthur BischoffSUISUI35100.14
8. Harry MorrisAUSAUS4094.96
Group 3
RankingPtsScore
1. Harold SmithUSAUSA5169.70
2. Arthur MundGERGER11148.48
3. Fumo TakashinaJPNJPN14139.82
4. Maurice LepageFRAFRA21132.52
5. Louis GompersNEDNED24123.24
6. Federico MariscalMEXMEX3188.84
7. S. C. MercerGBRGBR3481.84
Olympic Champions Men 3m Springboard
2016:Cao YuanCHNCHN
2012:Ilya ZakharovRUSRUS
2008:He ChongCHNCHN
2004:Peng BoCHNCHN
2000:Xiong NiCHNCHN
1996:Xiong NiCHNCHN
1992:Mark LenziUSAUSA
1988:Greg LouganisUSAUSA
1984:Greg LouganisUSAUSA
1980:Aleksandr PortnovURSURS
1976:Phil BoggsUSAUSA
1972:Vladimir VasinURSURS
1968:Bernard WrightsonUSAUSA
1964:Kenneth SitzbergerUSAUSA
1960:Gary TobianUSAUSA
1956:Bob ClotworthyUSAUSA
1952:David BrowningUSAUSA
1948:Bruce HarlanUSAUSA
1936:Richard DegenerUSAUSA
1932:Michael GalitzenUSAUSA
1928:Pete DesjardinsUSAUSA
1924:Albert WhiteUSAUSA
1920:Louis KuehnUSAUSA
1912:Paul GüntherGERGER
1908:Albert ZürnerGERGER
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index Netherlands 1928
index Diving
index Diving Netherlands 1928
Men Springboard Diving
Men High Diving
Men Plain High Diving
Women High Diving
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