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

Event:	Women's 10 metre platform
Games:	1968 Summer
Date:	22 October (Preliminary) 23 October (Finals)
Competitors:	24 from 15 nations
Gold:	Milena Duchková
Goldnoc:	TCH
Silver:	Natalya Lobanova
Silvernoc:	URS
Bronze:	Ann Peterson
Bronzenoc:	USA
Prev:	1964
Next:	1972

The women'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 12th appearance of the event, which has been held at every Olympic Games since the 1912 Summer Olympics.

Competition format

The competition was split into two phases:

Preliminary round (22 October)

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

Final (23 October)

Divers performed one compulsory dive with a limited degree of difficulty and two voluntary dives without limits. The final ranking was determined by the combined score with the preliminary round.

Schedule

All times are Central Time Zone (UTC-6)

Date	Time	Round
Tuesday, 22 October 1968	17:00	Preliminary
Wednesday, 23 October 1968	17:00	Final

Results

Rank	Diver	Nation	Preliminary		Final
Rank	Diver	Nation	Points	Rank	Dive 1	Dive 2	Dive 3	Points	Rank	Total
			51.61	3	18.46	19.24	20.28	57.98	1	109.59
			53.80	1	17.02	15.36	18.96	51.34	3	105.14
			52.14	2	16.12	16.06	16.79	48.97	4	101.11
4			44.65	11	22.04	16.32	14.96	53.32	2	97.97
5			49.53	4	13.34	15.18	17.04	45.56	8	95.09
6			46.77	8	15.08	15.36	15.87	46.31	7	93.08
7			45.66	10	15.41	14.49	17.52	47.42	5	93.08
8			44.10	12	16.90	14.30	15.36	46.56	3	90.66
9			48.23	5	14.95	13.20	14.74	41.20	9	89.43
10			47.09	7	15.34	10.56	14.30	40.20	10	87.29
11			47.22	6	14.95	14.30	9.84	38.09	11	85.31
12			45.72	9	15.60	8.36	12.65	36.61	12	82.33
13			47.74	13	did not advance
14			47.31	14	did not advance
15			47.26	15	did not advance
16			46.96	16	did not advance
17			46.39	17	did not advance
18			45.58	18	did not advance
19			43.35	19	did not advance
20			43.72	20	did not advance
21			43.54	21	did not advance
22			43.52	22	did not advance
23			41.02	23	did not advance
24			39.03	24	did not advance

Sources

Book: Organising Committee of the Games of the XIX Olympiad . The Official Report of the Games of the XIX Olympiad Mexico 1968, Volume 3: The Games . 4 January 2007 . 1969 . pdf . Organising Committee for The Games of the XVIII Olympiad . Mexico . french, english . p. 739.

Notes and References

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