Diving at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Women's 10 metre platform explained

Event:	Women's 10 metre platform
Games:	1972 Summer
Gold:	Ulrika Knape-Lindbergh
Goldnoc:	SWE
Silver:	Milena Duchková
Silvernoc:	TCH
Bronze:	Marina Janicke
Bronzenoc:	GDR
Prev:	1968
Next:	1976

The women's 10 metre platform, also reported as platform diving, was one of four diving events on the Diving at the 1972 Summer Olympics programme.^[1]

The competition was split into two phases:

1. Preliminary round (1 September)

Divers performed five dives. The twelve divers with the highest scores 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 with the preliminary round.

Results

Rank	Diver	Nation	Preliminary		Final
			Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Total
			218.31	2	171.69	1	390.00
			225.00	1	145.92	4	370.92
			206.73	3	153.81	2	360.54
4			204.33	6	148.35	3	352.68
5			205.08	5	141.30	5	346.38
6			206.07	4	135.60	8	341.67
7			196.26	7	137.76	6	334.02
8			185.19	12	135.84	7	321.03
9			187.62	11	129.69	9	317.31
10			188.13	9	126.63	10	314.76
11			188.10	10	121.98	11	310.08
12			188.58	8	112.68	12	301.26
13			184.02	13	did not advance
14			183.99	14	did not advance
15			183.48	15	did not advance
16			182.82	16	did not advance
17			179.79	17	did not advance
18			178.17	18	did not advance
19			177.33	19	did not advance
20			174.21	20	did not advance
21			173.82	21	did not advance
22			172.65	22	did not advance
23			168.24	23	did not advance
24			162.39	24	did not advance
25			157.95	25	did not advance
26			157.20	26	did not advance
27			156.99	27	did not advance

Sources

• Book: Organising Committee for the Games of the XX Olympiad . The Official Report for the Games of the XX Olympiad Munich 1972 . 3: The competitions . 7 January 2007 . 1974 . proSport GmbH & Co, KG, München . 352.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Diving at the 1972 Summer Olympics: Platform, Women . Olympedia . 19 May 2020.