Diving at the 1920 Summer Olympics
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1920 Summer Olympics The 1920 Summer Olympics (french: Jeux olympiques d'été de 1920; nl, Olympische Zomerspelen van 1920; german: Olympische Sommerspiele 1920), officially known as the Games of the VII Olympiad (french: Jeux de la VIIe olympiade; nl, Spelen van ...
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Antwerp Antwerp (; nl, Antwerpen ; french: Anvers ; es, Amberes) is the largest city in Belgium by area at and the capital of Antwerp Province in the Flemish Region. With a population of 520,504,
, five diving events were contested. The women's 3 metre springboard competition was added to the Olympic programme. The competitions were held from Monday, 22 August 1920 to Monday, 29 August 1920.


Medal summary

The events are labelled as 3 metre springboard, 10 metre platform and plain high diving by the
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/ref> and appeared on the 1920 Official Report (dated from 1957) as ''plongeons variés'', ''plongeons de haut vol variés'' or ''plongeons ordinaires'', and ''plongeons du tremplin'', respectively.Belgian Olympic Committee, pp. 128-9, 133. The men's high diving and 10 metre platform events included dives from both 10 metre and 5 metre platforms, while the women's 10 metre platform were performed from 8 metre and 4 metre platforms; the springboard events included dives from 3 metre and 1 metre springboards.


Men


Women


Participating nations

A total of 53 divers (35 men and 18 women) from 14 nations (men from 13 nations - women from 6 nations) competed at the Antwerp Games: * (men:0 women:1) * (men:3 women:0) * (men:1 women:0) * (men:1 women:0) * (men:3 women:2) * (men:3 women:0) * (men:1 women:0) * (men:3 women:2) * (men:1 women:0) * (men:1 women:0) * (men:2 women:2) * (men:8 women:4) * (men:1 women:0) * (men:7 women:7)


Medal table


Notes


References

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