Diving at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's 10 metre platform explained

Event:Men's 10 metre platform
Games:1960 Summer
Gold:Bob Webster
Goldnoc:USA
Silver:Gary Tobian
Silvernoc:USA
Bronze:Brian Phelps
Bronzenoc:GBR
Prev:1956
Next:1964

The men's 10 metre platform, also reported as 10-metre high diving, was one of four diving events on the Diving at the 1960 Summer Olympics programme.[1]

The competition was split into three phases:

  1. Preliminary round (31 August)

Divers performed four voluntary dives without limit of degrees of difficulty. The sixteen divers with the highest scores advanced to the semi-finals.

  1. Semi-final (1 September)

Divers performed three voluntary dives without limit of degrees of difficulty. The eight divers with the highest combined scores from the preliminary round and semi-final advanced to the final.

  1. Final (2 September)

Divers performed three voluntary dives without limit of degrees of difficulty. The final ranking was determined by the combined score from all three rounds.

Results

Rank Diver Nation Preliminary Semi-final Final
Points Rank Points Rank Total Rank Points Rank Total
52.21 9 47.51 2 99.72 3 65.84 1 165.56
54.10 4 51.98 1 106.08 1 59.17 2 165.25
57.35 1 44.50 3 101.85 2 55.28 4 157.13
4 52.03 10 43.85 4 95.88 6 56.98 3 152.86
5 57.25 2 38.59 8 96.83 4 55.00 5 151.83
6 54.07 5 42.67 5 96.74 5 44.95 7 141.69
7 51.23 13 41.80 6 93.03 7 45.83 6 138.86
8 54.03 6 39.00 7 93.03 8 42.56 8 135.59
9 55.13 3 36.24 14 91.37 9 did not advance
10 52.65 7 38.34 11 90.99 10 did not advance
11 52.32 8 38.54 9 90.86 11 did not advance
12 50.97 15 38.53 10 89.50 12 did not advance
13 51.12 14 38.01 12 89.13 13 did not advance
14 51.90 11 36.87 13 88.77 14 did not advance
15 51.24 12 35.98 15 87.22 15 did not advance
16 50.74 16 32.81 16 83.55 16 did not advance
17 50.20 17 did not advance
18 50.01 18 did not advance
18 50.01 18 did not advance
20 49.30 20 did not advance
21 46.06 20 did not advance
22 45.71 22 did not advance
23 45.51 23 did not advance
24 45.10 24 did not advance
25 43.82 25 did not advance
26 43.49 26 did not advance
27 40.24 27 did not advance
28 28.34 28 did not advance

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Diving at the 1960 Summer Olympics: Platform, Men . OlyMADMen . 16 May 2020.