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

Women's 10 metre platform
at the Games of the IX Olympiad
Medalists
1st, gold medalist(s) Elizabeth Becker-Pinkston
 United States
2nd, silver medalist(s) Georgia Coleman
 United States
3rd, bronze medalist(s) Laura Sjöqvist
 Sweden
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1st, gold medalist(s) Elizabeth Becker-Pinkston
 United States
2nd, silver medalist(s) Georgia Coleman
 United States
3rd, bronze medalist(s) 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 August 10, 1928, and on Saturday August 11, 1928.

Seventeen divers from eight nations competed.

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

Group 1

Group 2


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