Diving at the 1928 Summer Olympics – Men's 3 metre springboard

A point-for-place system was used to determine qualification for the final. Each of the five judges arrived at a final score for each diver. The diver with the best score from a judge received 1 point, second-best received 2 points, and so on; this process repeated for each judge. The three divers who scored the smallest number of points in each group of the first round advanced to the final.[1]

The Official Report shows both the raw scores and the points determined via the point-for-place system used in the preliminary round. However, neither was used to determine the winners. Instead, the divers were ranked based on how many judges had scored them better than the next diver. Thus, Simaika (13 points) finished behind Galitzen (14 points) because 3 judges had given Galitzen higher scores (placing him 2nd and Simaika 3rd) and 2 judges had given Simaika higher scores (placing him 2nd, Smith 3rd, and Galitzen 4th—causing Galitzen to have a higher point-for-place score).[1]

Rank	Diver	Nation	Points						Score
			Judge 1	Judge 2	Judge 3	Judge 4	Judge 5	Total
	Pete Desjardins	United States	1	1	1	1	1	5	185.04
	Michael Galitzen	United States	2	4	2	2	4	14	174.06
	Farid Simaika	Egypt	3	2	3	3	2	13	172.46
4	Harold Smith	United States	4	3	4	4	3	18	168.96
5	Arthur Mund	Germany	6	5	5	7.5	6	29.5	154.72
6	Ewald Riebschläger	Germany	7	6	6	5	7	31	153.86
7	Alfred Phillips	Canada	5	8	7	7.5	5	32.5	149.48
8	Heinz Plumanns	Germany	8	7	8	6	8	37	150.18
9	Fumo Takashina	Japan	9	9	9	9	9	45	139.78