Diving at the 1928 Summer Olympics springboards. A total of 61 divers (38 men and 23 women) from 17 nations (men from 16 nations - women from 9 nations) competed at the Amsterdam Games: 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. The competitions were held from Monday, August 6, 1928 to Saturday, August 11, 1928. The events are labelled as 3 metre springboard and 10 metre platform by the International Olympic Committee, and appeared on the 1928 Official Report as "fancy diving" and
Swimming at the 1928 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metre freestyle Swimming at the 1928 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metre freestyle The men's 100 metre freestyle was a swimming event held as part of the swimming at the 1928 Summer Olympics programme. It was the sixth appearance of the event, which had not been featured only at the 1900 Games. The competition was held on Friday and Saturday, 10 and 11 August 1928. Thirty swimmers from 17 nations competed. These were the standing world and Olympic records (in seconds) prior to the 1928 Summer Olympics. Johnny Weissmuller improved his own Olympic record in the semi-finals with 58.6 seconds and equalized