Diving at the 1968 Summer Olympics – Men's 10 metre platform explained

Event:Men's 10 metre platform
Games:1968 Summer
Venue:Alberca Olímpica Francisco Marquéz
Date:24–25 October (Preliminary)
26 October (Finals)
Competitors:35 from 17 nations
Gold:Klaus Dibiasi
Goldnoc:ITA
Silver:Álvaro Gaxiola
Silvernoc:MEX
Bronze:Win Young
Bronzenoc:USA
Prev:1964
Next:1972

The men's 10 metre platform, also reported as high diving or platform diving, was one of four diving events on the Diving at the 1968 Summer Olympics programme.[1] It was the 14th appearance of the event, which has been held at every Olympic Games since the 1904 Summer Olympics.

Competition format

The competition was split into two phases:

  1. Preliminary round (24–25 October)

Divers performed six compulsory dives with limited degrees of difficulty and one voluntary dives without limits. The twelve divers with the highest scores advanced to the final.

  1. Final (26 October)

Divers performed three voluntary dives without limit of degrees of difficulty. The final ranking was determined by the combined score with the preliminary round.

Schedule

All times are Central Time Zone (UTC-6)

DateTimeRound
Thursday-Friday, 24–25 October 196817:00Preliminary
Saturday, 26 October 196817:00Final

Results

Rank Diver Nation Preliminary Final
Points Rank Dive 1 Dive 2 Dive 3 Points Rank Total
108.04 1 19.92 20.02 16.20 56.14 1 164.18
103.33 2 16.08 16.10 18.98 51.16 4 154.49
99.98 4 15.39 17.68 20.88 53.95 2 153.93
4 101.38 3 18.72 11.07 21.17 50.96 5 152.34
5 91.16 11 18.00 17.82 16.64 52.46 3 143.62
6 92.19 7 14.72 16.90 17.94 49.56 6 141.75
7 93.66 6 14.16 15.66 17.68 47.50 7 141.16
8 94.73 5 15.08 13.68 15.40 44.16 10 138.89
9 91.43 10 14.30 15.64 17.40 47.34 8 138.77
10 91.91 9 17.52 15.86 13.11 46.49 9 138.40
11 92.06 8 12.65 14.74 11.76 39.15 12 131.21
12 89.66 12 15.41 15.84 8.58 39.83 11 129.49
13 89.41 13 did not advance
14 89.00 14 did not advance
15 88.99 15 did not advance
16 86.89 16 did not advance
17 86.70 17 did not advance
18 86.69 18 did not advance
19 85.89 19 did not advance
20 85.51 20 did not advance
21 85.14 21 did not advance
22 85.08 22 did not advance
23 84.10 23 did not advance
24 83.18 24 did not advance
25 82.09 25 did not advance
26 81.72 26 did not advance
27 81.23 27 did not advance
28 80.30 28 did not advance
29 80.02 29 did not advance
30 78.28 30 did not advance
31 77.30 31 did not advance
32 74.09 32 did not advance
33 65.41 33 did not advance
34 65.14 34 did not advance
35 47.97 35 did not advance
- DNS - did not advance

Sources

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Diving at the 1968 Summer Olympics: Platform, Men . Olympedia . 18 May 2020.