Diving at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Women's 10 metre platform explained

Event:	Women's 10 metre platform
Games:	1988 Summer
Gold:	Xu Yanmei
Goldnoc:	CHN
Silver:	Michelle Mitchell
Silvernoc:	USA
Bronze:	Wendy Williams
Bronzenoc:	USA
Prev:	1984
Next:	1992

The women's 10 metre platform, also reported as platform diving, was one of four diving events on the Diving at the 1988 Summer Olympics programme.^[1]

The competition was split into two phases:

Preliminary round (17 September)

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

Final (18 September)

Divers performed another set of eight dives and the score here obtained determined the final ranking.

Results

Rank	Diver	Nation	Preliminary		Final
Rank	Diver	Nation	Points	Rank	Points
			426.27	3	445.20
			426.45	2	436.95
			402.54	4	400.44
4			401.04	5	386.22
5			456.45	1	384.15
6			399.27	6	381.93
7			356.73	11	366.45
8			393.99	7	350.61
9			359.64	10	349.41
10			366.42	9	340.89
11			355.17	12	322.59
12			377.70	8	297.18
13			347.73	13	Did not advance
14			339.96	14	Did not advance
15			335.88	15	Did not advance
16			333.45	16	Did not advance
17			327.93	17	Did not advance
18			322.35	18	Did not advance
19			310.53	19	Did not advance
20			284.25	20	Did not advance

Sources

Book: Official Report of the Games of the XXIVth Olympiad Seoul, 1988 - Volume 2: Competition Summary and Results . 11 January 2007 . 1989 . pdf . Seoul Olympic Organizing Committee . Seoul . english, french . 23924033 . pp. 586–8.

Notes and References

Web site: Diving at the 1988 Summer Olympics: Platform, Women . Olympedia . 22 May 2020.