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Diving At The 1920 Summer Olympics – Men's Plain High Diving
The men's plain high diving was one of five diving events on the diving at the 1920 Summer Olympics programme. The competition was held on Monday, 22 August, Tuesday, 23 August, and on Thursday, 25 August 1920. Twenty-two divers from eleven nations competed. Results 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 Group 2 Group 3 Final References Sources * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Diving at the 1920 Summer Olympics - Men's plain high diving Men 1920 Events January * January 1 ** Polish–Soviet War in 1920: The Russian Red Army increases its troops along the Polish border from 4 divisions to 20. ** Kauniainen, completely surrounded by the city of Espoo, secedes from Espoo as its own ma ... Men's events at the 1920 Summer Olympics ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stade Nautique D'Antwerp
Stade Nautique d'Antwerp (Dutch:''Zwemstadion van Antwerpen'') was an aquatics venue located in Antwerp, Belgium. For the 1920 Summer Olympics, it hosted the diving, swimming, and water polo Water polo is a competitive sport, competitive team sport played in water between two teams of seven players each. The game consists of four quarters in which the teams attempt to score goals by throwing the water polo ball, ball into the oppo .... This was the first structure devoted to the aquatics events for the Summer Olympics. During the swimming events, the water was described as cold and very dark, so much so that the swimmers had to be warmed up after every event. Diving events were held in the middle of the pool, with the divers themselves describing the water as cold and dark. ReferencesSports-reference.com profile of Diving at the 1920 Summer Olympics. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arvid Wallman
Arvid Håkan Herbert Carlsson "Fågeln" Wallman (3 February 1901 – 25 October 1982) was a Swedish diver. He competed in the plain high diving event at the 1920 and 1924 Summer Olympics and finished in first and eighth place, respectively. After graduating in 1923 from the Chalmers University of Technology Chalmers University of Technology ( sv, Chalmers tekniska högskola, often shortened to Chalmers) is a Swedish university located in Gothenburg that conducts research and education in technology and natural sciences at a high international level ... he worked as a civil engineer. His granddaughter Susanne Wetteskog also became an Olympic diver. References 1901 births 1982 deaths Swedish male divers Olympic divers of Sweden Divers at the 1920 Summer Olympics Divers at the 1924 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for Sweden Olympic medalists in diving Medalists at the 1920 Summer Olympics Divers from Gothenburg 20th-century Swedish people {{Sweden ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nils Skoglund
Nils "Niklas" Skoglund (15 August 1906 – 1 January 1980) was a Swedish diver who won the silver medal in the plain high diving competition at the 1920 Summer Olympics. He still remains the youngest male Olympian to win a medal in an individual event, at 14 years, 11 days. After the Olympics Skoglund retired from diving and played water polo for his club Stockholms KK. His elder brother Erik competed in swimming at the 1924 Summer Olympics, and the other brother Gunnar Gunnar is a male first name of Nordic origin (''Gunnarr'' in Old Norse). The name Gunnar means fighter, soldier, and attacker, but mostly is referred to by the Viking saying which means Brave and Bold warrior (''gunnr'' "war" and ''arr'' "warrior ... was a film actor. References 1906 births 1980 deaths Swedish male divers Olympic divers for Sweden Divers at the 1920 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists for Sweden Olympic medalists in diving Medalists at the 1920 Summer Olympics Stockholms KK ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Jansson
Carl Johan Erik "John" Jansson (18 July 1892 – 10 October 1943) was a Swedish diver, who competed at the 1912, 1920 and 1924 Summer Olympics The 1924 Summer Olympics (french: Jeux olympiques d'été de 1924), officially the Games of the VIII Olympiad (french: Jeux de la VIIIe olympiade) and also known as Paris 1924, were an international multi-sport event held in Paris, France. The op .... In 1912 Olympics he won a bronze medal in the plain high diving event, was seventh in the 3 metre springboard, and was eliminated in the heats of 10 metre platform event. Eight years later he won a bronze medal in the plain high diving event and was sixth in the 3 metre springboard. In 1924 he won a silver medal in the plain high diving event. References 1892 births 1943 deaths Swedish male divers Olympic divers of Sweden Divers at the 1912 Summer Olympics Divers at the 1920 Summer Olympics Divers at the 1924 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists for Sweden Olympic bronz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |