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

Men's 10 metre platform
at the Games of the XIX Olympiad
Medalists
   Italy
   Mexico
   United States
Diving at the
1968 Summer Olympics
3 m springboard   men   women
10 m platform   men   women

The men'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.

The competition was split into two phases:

  1. Preliminary round (24–25 October)
    Divers performed six compulsory dives with limited degrees of difficulty and one voluntary dives without limits. The twelve divers with the highest scores advanced to the final.
  2. Final (26 October)
    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 Preliminary Final
Points Rank Points Rank Total
1st, gold medalist(s)  Klaus Dibiasi (ITA) 108.04 1 56.14 1 164.18
2nd, silver medalist(s)  Álvaro Gaxiola (MEX) 103.33 2 51.16 4 154.49
3rd, bronze medalist(s)  Win Young (USA) 99.98 4 53.95 2 153.93
4  Keith Russell (USA) 101.38 3 50.96 5 152.34
5  José Robinson (MEX) 91.16 11 52.46 3 143.62
6  Lothar Matthes (GDR) 92.19 7 49.56 6 141.75
7  Luis Niño (MEX) 93.66 6 47.50 7 141.16
8  Franco Cagnotto (ITA) 94.73 5 44.16 10 138.89
9  Mikhail Safonov (URS) 91.43 10 47.34 8 138.77
10  Vladimir Vasin (URS) 91.91 9 46.49 9 138.40
11  Tord Andersson (SWE) 92.06 8 39.15 12 131.21
12  Bernd Wucherpfennig (FRG) 89.66 12 39.83 11 129.49
13  Wlodzimierz Mejsak (POL) 89.41 13 Did not advance
14  Karl-Heinz Schwemmer (FRG) 89.00 14 Did not advance
15  Donald Wagstaff (AUS) 88.99 15 Did not advance
16  Viktor Pogozhev (URS) 86.89 16 Did not advance
17  Richard Gilbert (USA) 86.70 17 Did not advance
18  Klaus Konzorr (FRG) 86.69 18 Did not advance
19  Waguih Aboul (EGY) 85.89 19 Did not advance
20  Rolf Sperling (GDR) 85.51 20 Did not advance
21  Jakub Puchow (POL) 85.14 21 Did not advance
22  Jerzy Kowalewski (POL) 85.08 22 Did not advance
23  Junji Yuasa (JPN) 84.10 23 Did not advance
24  Toshio Otsubo (JPN) 83.18 24 Did not advance
25  Bob Eaton (CAN) 82.09 25 Did not advance
26  Yosuke Arimitsu (JPN) 81.72 26 Did not advance
27  Robin Baskerville (GBR) 81.23 27 Did not advance
28  David Priestley (GBR) 80.30 28 Did not advance
29  José Ponce (CUB) 80.02 29 Did not advance
30  Alberto Moreno (CUB) 78.28 30 Did not advance
31  Song Jae-Ung (KOR) 77.30 31 Did not advance
32  Diego Heñao (COL) 74.09 32 Did not advance
33  Kenneth Sully (CAN) 65.41 33 Did not advance
34  Jerry Anderson (PUR) 65.14 34 Did not advance
35  Héctor Bas (PUR) 47.97 35 Did not advance
-  Edwin Barrundia (GUA) DNS - Did not advance

References

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