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Diving
at the Games of the IV Olympiad
Diving; at the Games of the IV Olympiad
Venue	White City Stadium
Dates	14 July 1908 to; 24 July 1908
No. of events	2
Competitors	39 from 9 nations
	← 1904 1912 →

At the 1908 Summer Olympics in London, two diving events were contested, both for men only. The competition was held on Tuesday 14 and Friday 24 July 1908. While the competitive events were restricted to men only, an exhibition was performed by two women on 18 July.^[1]

Medal summary

The events are labelled as 3 metre springboard and 10 metre platform by the International Olympic Committee,^[2] and appeared on the 1908 Official Report as high diving and fancy diving.^[3] The high diving event included dives from both 10 metre and 5 metre platforms, while the fancy diving included dives from 3 metre and 1 metre springboards.

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
3 m springboard details	Albert Zürner (GER)	Kurt Behrens (GER)	George Gaidzik (USA)
3 m springboard details	Albert Zürner (GER)	Kurt Behrens (GER)	Gottlob Walz (GER)
10 m platform details	Hjalmar Johansson (SWE)	Karl Malmström (SWE)	Arvid Spångberg (SWE)

Participating nations

A total of 39 divers from 9 nations competed at the London Games:

Australasia (1)
Belgium (1)
Canada (1)
Finland (2)
Germany (5)
Great Britain (16)
Italy (1)
Sweden (10)
United States (2)

Medal table

Notes

^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Diving at the 1908 London Summer Games". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 11 May 2020.
^ IOC medals database
^ Cook, pp. 305-6.

References

Cook, Theodore Andrea (1908). The Fourth Olympiad, Being the Official Report. London: British Olympic Association.
De Wael, Herman (2001). "Diving 1908". Herman's Full Olympians. Archived from the original on 2011-06-04. Retrieved 2006-05-20.