Diving at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's 10 metre platform explained

Event:Women's 10 metre platform
Games:2008 Summer
Date:20–21 August
Gold:Chen Ruolin
Goldnoc:CHN
Silver:Émilie Heymans
Silvernoc:CAN
Bronze:Wang Xin
Bronzenoc:CHN
Prev:2004
Next:2012

Women's 10 metre platform competition at the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics took place from August 20 to August 21, at the Beijing National Aquatics Center. It was an individual diving competition, with dives performed from an inflexible platform (unlike the springboard used for three metre diving) ten metres above the surface of the water.

The individual diving competitions all consist of three rounds. In the first, the 29 divers each perform five dives. The top 18 divers advance to the semifinals. Each diver again performs five dives, and the top 12 divers from among those dives advance to the finals. Preliminary scores are ignored at this point, as only the semifinal scores are considered in advancement. In the final round, the divers perform a final set of five dives, with the scores from those dives (and only those dives) used to determine final ranking.

Seven judges evaluate each dive, giving the diver a score between 0 and 10 with increments of 0.5; scores below 7.0 or above 9.5 are rare. The two highest and two lowest scores from each judge are dropped. The remaining three scores are summed, and multiplied by the degree of difficulty of the dive to give the total score for the dive. Scores from each dive in the round are summed to give the round score.

Results

RankDiverNationPreliminarySemifinalFinal
PointsRankPointsRankPoints
428.801 444.601 447.70
403.853 374.104 437.05
420.302 388.553 429.90
4343.607 400.752 380.95
5345.706 349.505 343.60
6340.358 331.358 338.15
7296.5017 335.257 332.10
8320.4012 297.2012 328.70
9370.705 346.106 311.80
10313.9014 301.7511 303.50
11331.409 314.6010 296.30
12309.4516 315.459 285.85
13328.3011 296.6013 Did not advance
14329.0010 292.9514 Did not advance
15313.0515 283.1515Did not advance
16316.2013 267.0016Did not advance
17291.9018 259.4017Did not advance
18383.754 250.3018Did not advance
19290.8019 did not advance
20290.4020 did not advance
21289.9521did not advance
22287.7022did not advance
23283.7523did not advance
24279.1024did not advance
25255.3025did not advance
26252.0026did not advance
27249.2027did not advance
28240.4528did not advance
29234.3029did not advance

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