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Diving

Diving is the sport of jumping or falling into water from a platform or springboard, sometimes while performing acrobatics. Diving is an internationally-recognized sport that is part of the Olympic Games. In addition, unstructured and non-competitive diving is a recreational pastime.Diving is one...

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Diving at the 1912 Summer Olympics

At the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm, four diving events were contested. For the first time, women competed in diving at the Olympic Games...

programme. The competition was held on Saturday July 6, 1912, on Sunday July 7, 1912, and on Thursday July 11, 1912.

Thirty-one divers from nine nations competed.

Results

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

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

Place	Diver	Points	Score
1		8	36.1
2		11	35.8
3		13	35.0
4		14	34.7
5		25	31.7
6		31	30.2
7		32	28.6
-		-	DNF

Group 2

Place	Diver	Points	Score
1		5	38.3
2		13	36.2
3		17	35.2
4		18	35.3
5		20	34.9
6		32	28.5
7		33	28.3

Group 3

Place	Diver	Points	Score
1		7	40.1
2		10	39.4
3		15	38.3
4		19	37.7
5		22	37.0
6		27	36.2
7		31	35.1
8		40	32.5
9		44	31.2

Group 4

Place	Diver	Points	Score
1		5	39.9
2		13	33.8
3		14	33.2
4		21	32.0
5		22	32.1
6		26	31.7
7		31	30.2

Final

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

Place	Diver	Points	Score
1		7	40.0
2		12	39.3
3		12	39.1
4		22	37.1
5		26	36.3
6		26	36.0
7		28	36.2
-		-	DNF