Diving at the 1980 Summer Olympics – Men's 10 metre platform explained

Event:	Men's 10 metre platform
Games:	1980 Summer
Gold:	Falk Hoffmann
Goldnoc:	GDR
Silver:	Vladimir Aleynik
Silvernoc:	URS
Bronze:	David Ambartsumyan
Bronzenoc:	URS
Prev:	1976
Next:	1984

The men's 10 metre platform, also reported as platform diving, was one of four diving events on the Diving at the 1980 Summer Olympics programme.^[1]

The competition was split into two phases:

1. Preliminary round (27 July)

Divers performed ten dives. The eight divers with the highest scores advanced to the final.

1. Final (28 July)

Divers performed another set of ten dives and the score here obtained was combined with half of the preliminary score to determine the final ranking.

Results

Rank	Diver	Nation	Preliminary		Final
			Points	Rank	Points	Rank	½ Prel.	Total
			546.12	1	562.590	1	273.060	835.650
			539.07	2	550.170	4	269.535	819.705
			518.82	4	558.030	2	259.410	817.440
4			515.37	5	552.120	3	257.685	809.805
5			515.16	6	545.220	5	257.580	802.800
6			521.01	3	523.470	7	260.505	783.975
7			487.20	8	532.260	6	243.600	775.860
8			493.89	7	478.200	8	246.945	725.145
9			468.21	9	did not advance
10			467.76	10	did not advance
11			456.87	11	did not advance
12			447.12	12	did not advance
13			436.02	13	did not advance
14			429.75	14	did not advance
15			428.52	15	did not advance
16			427.44	16	did not advance
17			406.89	17	did not advance
18			391.32	18	did not advance
19			380.91	19	did not advance
20			373.06	20	did not advance
21			369.09	21	did not advance
22			356.76	22	did not advance
23			326.34	23	did not advance

Sources

• Book: The Official Report of the Games of the XXIInd Olympiad, Moscow 1980 - Volume 3: Participants and Results . 9 January 2007 . 1981 . pdf . Fizkoultura i Sport Publishers . Moscow . p. 490 .

Notes and References

1. Web site: Diving at the 1980 Summer Olympics: Platform, Men . Olympedia . 20 May 2020.