Diving at the 1968 Summer Olympics – Men's 10 metre platform
Men's 10 metre platform at the Games of the XIX Olympiad | |||||||||||||
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Venue | Alberca Olímpica Francisco Marquéz | ||||||||||||
Date | 24–25 October (Preliminary) 26 October (Finals) | ||||||||||||
Competitors | 35 from 17 nations | ||||||||||||
Medalists | |||||||||||||
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Diving at the 1968 Summer Olympics | ||
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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.[1] It was the 14th appearance of the event, which has been held at every Olympic Games since the 1904 Summer Olympics.
Competition format
[edit]The competition was split into two phases:
- 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.
- 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.
Schedule
[edit]All times are Central Time Zone (UTC-6)
Date | Time | Round |
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Thursday-Friday, 24–25 October 1968 | 17:00 | Preliminary |
Saturday, 26 October 1968 | 17:00 | Final |
Results
[edit]Rank | Diver | Nation | Preliminary | Final | ||||||
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Points | Rank | Dive 1 | Dive 2 | Dive 3 | Points | Rank | Total | |||
![]() | Klaus Dibiasi | ![]() | 108.04 | 1 | 19.92 | 20.02 | 16.20 | 56.14 | 1 | 164.18 |
![]() | Álvaro Gaxiola | ![]() | 103.33 | 2 | 16.08 | 16.10 | 18.98 | 51.16 | 4 | 154.49 |
![]() | Win Young | ![]() | 99.98 | 4 | 15.39 | 17.68 | 20.88 | 53.95 | 2 | 153.93 |
4 | Keith Russell | ![]() | 101.38 | 3 | 18.72 | 11.07 | 21.17 | 50.96 | 5 | 152.34 |
5 | José Robinson | ![]() | 91.16 | 11 | 18.00 | 17.82 | 16.64 | 52.46 | 3 | 143.62 |
6 | Lothar Matthes | ![]() | 92.19 | 7 | 14.72 | 16.90 | 17.94 | 49.56 | 6 | 141.75 |
7 | Luis Niño | ![]() | 93.66 | 6 | 14.16 | 15.66 | 17.68 | 47.50 | 7 | 141.16 |
8 | Franco Cagnotto | ![]() | 94.73 | 5 | 15.08 | 13.68 | 15.40 | 44.16 | 10 | 138.89 |
9 | Mikhail Safonov | ![]() | 91.43 | 10 | 14.30 | 15.64 | 17.40 | 47.34 | 8 | 138.77 |
10 | Vladimir Vasin | ![]() | 91.91 | 9 | 17.52 | 15.86 | 13.11 | 46.49 | 9 | 138.40 |
11 | Tord Andersson | ![]() | 92.06 | 8 | 12.65 | 14.74 | 11.76 | 39.15 | 12 | 131.21 |
12 | Bernd Wucherpfennig | ![]() | 89.66 | 12 | 15.41 | 15.84 | 8.58 | 39.83 | 11 | 129.49 |
13 | Włodzimierz Mejsak | ![]() | 89.41 | 13 | did not advance | |||||
14 | Karl-Heinz Schwemmer | ![]() | 89.00 | 14 | did not advance | |||||
15 | Donald Wagstaff | ![]() | 88.99 | 15 | did not advance | |||||
16 | Viktor Pogozhev | ![]() | 86.89 | 16 | did not advance | |||||
17 | Richard Gilbert | ![]() | 86.70 | 17 | did not advance | |||||
18 | Klaus Konzorr | ![]() | 86.69 | 18 | did not advance | |||||
19 | Waguih Aboul Seoud | ![]() | 85.89 | 19 | did not advance | |||||
20 | Rolf Sperling | ![]() | 85.51 | 20 | did not advance | |||||
21 | Jakub Puchow | ![]() | 85.14 | 21 | did not advance | |||||
22 | Jerzy Kowalewski | ![]() | 85.08 | 22 | did not advance | |||||
23 | Junji Yuasa | ![]() | 84.10 | 23 | did not advance | |||||
24 | Toshio Otsubo | ![]() | 83.18 | 24 | did not advance | |||||
25 | Bob Eaton | ![]() | 82.09 | 25 | did not advance | |||||
26 | Yosuke Arimitsu | ![]() | 81.72 | 26 | did not advance | |||||
27 | Robin Baskerville | ![]() | 81.23 | 27 | did not advance | |||||
28 | David Priestley | ![]() | 80.30 | 28 | did not advance | |||||
29 | José Ponce | ![]() | 80.02 | 29 | did not advance | |||||
30 | Alberto Moreno | ![]() | 78.28 | 30 | did not advance | |||||
31 | Song Jae-Ung | ![]() | 77.30 | 31 | did not advance | |||||
32 | Diego Heñao | ![]() | 74.09 | 32 | did not advance | |||||
33 | Kenneth Sully | ![]() | 65.41 | 33 | did not advance | |||||
34 | Jerry Anderson | ![]() | 65.14 | 34 | did not advance | |||||
35 | Héctor Bas | ![]() | 47.97 | 35 | did not advance | |||||
- | Edwin Barrundia | ![]() | DNS | - | did not advance |
References
[edit]- ^ "Diving at the 1968 Summer Olympics: Platform, Men". Olympedia. Retrieved 18 May 2020.
Sources
[edit]- Organising Committee of the Games of the XIX Olympiad (October 1969). The Official Report of the Games of the XIX Olympiad Mexico 1968, Volume 3: The Games (pdf) (in French and English). Mexico: The Organising Committee for The Games of the XVIII Olympiad. pp. pp. 737–8. Retrieved 4 January 2007.