Diving at the 1912 Summer Olympics
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1912 Summer Olympics The 1912 Summer Olympics ( sv, Olympiska sommarspelen 1912), officially known as the Games of the V Olympiad ( sv, Den V olympiadens spel) and commonly known as Stockholm 1912, were an international multi-sport event held in Stockholm, Sweden, b ...
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Stockholm Stockholm () is the capital and largest city of Sweden as well as the largest urban area in Scandinavia. Approximately 980,000 people live in the municipality, with 1.6 million in the urban area, and 2.4 million in the metropo ...
, four diving events were contested. For the first time, women competed in diving at the Olympic Games. The competitions were held from Saturday 6 July 1912 to Monday 15 July 1912.


Medal summary

The events are labelled as 10 metre platform, 3 metre springboard and plain high diving by the
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/ref> and appeared on the 1912 Official Report as ''Plain and Variety Diving combined'', ''Spring-board Diving'' and ''High (plain) Diving''.Swedish Olympic Committee, pp. 993-4. The high diving events included dives from both 10 metre and 5 metre platforms, while the springboard diving included dives from 3 metre and 1 metre springboards.


Men


Women


Participating nations

A total of 57 divers (43 men and 14 women) from 10 nations (men from 9 nations - women from 3 nations) competed at the Stockholm Games: * (men:0 women:1) * (men:2 women:0) * (men:6 women:0) * (men:4 women:0) * (men:2 women:1) * (men:1 women:0) * (men:3 women:0) * (men:1 women:0) * (men:22 women:12) * (men:2 women:0)


Medal table


Notes


References

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