# Diving at the 1912 Summer Olympics – Men's plain high diving

The men's plain high diving was one of four diving events on the diving at the 1912 Summer Olympics programme. The competition was held on Saturday 6 July 1912, on Sunday 7 July 1912, and on Thursday 11 July 1912. Thirty-one divers from nine nations competed.

## Results

The competition was actually held from both 10 metre and 5 metre platforms. Divers performed a total of five dives: a standing dive and two running dives from the 10 metre platform, and a standing dive and a running dive from the 5 metre platform. Five judges scored each diver, giving two results. Each judge gave an ordinal placing for each diver in a group, with the five scores being summed to give a total ordinal points score. The judges also gave scores more closely resembling the modern scoring system.

### First round

The divers who scored the smallest number of points in each group of the first round plus the four best scoring non-qualified divers of all groups advanced to the final. Ordinal placings were used to rank divers within the group, but were not used to determine qualification.

#### Group 1

| Rank | Diver | Nation | Points | Score | Notes |
| 1 | Paul Günther | Germany | 8 | 36.1 | Q |
| 2 | Torsten Eriksson | Sweden | 11 | 35.8 | |
| 3 | Tauno Ilmoniemi | Finland | 13 | 35.0 | |
| 4 | Alfred Johansson | Sweden | 14 | 34.7 | |
| 5 | Nils Tvedt | Norway | 25 | 31.7 | |
| 6 | Elis Holmer | Sweden | 31 | 30.2 | |
| 7 | Sigvard Andersen | Norway | 32 | 28.6 | |
| - | Viktor Baranov | Russia | - | DNF | |

#### Group 2

| Rank | Diver | Nation | Points | Score | Notes |
| 1 | John Jansson | Sweden | 5 | 38.3 | Q |
| 2 | George Gaidzik | United States | 13 | 36.2 | |
| 3 | George Yvon | Great Britain | 17 | 35.2 | |
| 4 | Gunnar Ekstrand | Sweden | 18 | 35.3 | |
| 5 | Arthur McAleenan | United States | 20 | 34.9 | |
| 6 | Carlo Bonfanti | Italy | 32 | 28.5 | |
| 7 | Alfred Engelsen | Norway | 33 | 28.3 | |

#### Group 3

| Rank | Diver | Nation | Points | Score | Notes |
| 1 | Hjalmar Johansson | Sweden | 7 | 40.1 | Q |
| 2 | Toivo Aro | Finland | 10 | 39.4 | q |
| 3 | Axel Runström | Sweden | 15 | 38.3 | q |
| 4 | Ernst Brandsten | Sweden | 19 | 37.7 | q |
| 5 | Viktor Crondahl | Sweden | 22 | 37.0 | q |
| 6 | Hans Luber | Germany | 27 | 36.2 | |
| 7 | Kurt Behrens | Germany | 31 | 35.1 | |
| 8 | John P. Lyons | Canada | 40 | 32.5 | |
| 9 | Jens Stefenson | Sweden | 44 | 31.2 | |

#### Group 4

| Rank | Diver | Nation | Points | Score | Notes |
| 1 | Erik Adlerz | Sweden | 5 | 39.9 | Q |
| 2 | Oskar Wetzell | Finland | 13 | 33.8 | |
| 3 | Kalle Kainuvaara | Finland | 14 | 33.2 | |
| 4 | Albert Nyman | Finland | 21 | 32.0 | |
| 5 | Leo Suni | Finland | 22 | 32.1 | |
| 6 | Albert Zürner | Germany | 26 | 31.7 | |
| 7 | Sven Montan | Sweden | 31 | 30.2 | |

### Final

In the final, ordinal placings were the primary ranking method with dive scores being used only to break ties.
| Rank | Diver | Nation | Points | Score |
| | Erik Adlerz | Sweden | 7 | 40.0 |
| | Hjalmar Johansson | Sweden | 12 | 39.3 |
| | John Jansson | Sweden | 12 | 39.1 |
| 4 | Viktor Crondahl | Sweden | 22 | 37.1 |
| 5 | Toivo Aro | Finland | 26 | 36.3 |
| 6 | Axel Runström | Sweden | 26 | 36.0 |
| 7 | Ernst Brandsten | Sweden | 28 | 36.2 |
| - | Paul Günther | Germany | - | DNF |