The men's 10 metre platform, also reported as high diving, was one of four diving

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...

 events on the diving at the 1928 Summer Olympics

Diving at the 1928 Summer Olympics

At the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam, four diving events were contested. The men's plain high diving event was dropped from the Olympic program...

 programme. The competition was actually held from both 10 metre and 5 metre boards. Divers performed four compulsory dives – running plain dive, backward somersault

Somersault

A somersault is an acrobatic exercise in which a person does a full 360° flip, moving the feet over the head. A somersault can be performed either forwards, backwards, or sideways and can be executed in the air or on the ground...

(5 metre platform), standing plain dive, running plain dive (10 metre platform) – and four dives of the competitor's choice (different from the compulsory), from either platform, for a total of eight dives. The competition was held from Thursday August 9, 1928 to Saturday August 11, 1928.

Twenty-four divers from twelve nations competed.

First round

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

Group 1

Place	Diver	Points	Score
1		5	91.68
2		14	83.48
3		14	81.44
4		17	80.36
5		25	67.96
6		31	59.14
7		34	53.42
8		40	46.40
9			DNF

Group 2

Place	Diver	Points	Score
1		6	102.38
2		9	98.56
3		15	83.46
4		24	74.12
5		25	73.08
6		26	73.32
7		35	55.10

Group 3

Place	Diver	Points	Score
1		5	104.52
2		11	81.98
3		14	78.42
4		21	72.34
5		25	71.20
6		33	67.76
7		35	63.84
8		36	61.56

Final

Place	Diver	Points	Score
1		6	98.74
2		9	99.58
3		15	92.34
4		21	85.78
5		27	82.44
6		28	80.54
7		35	77.26
8		41	72.22
9		43	67.78