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

Men's 10 metre platform; at the Games of the XIX Olympiad
	Left-right: Gaxiola, Dibiasi, Young
Medalists

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]

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.

Results

Rank	Diver	Nation	Preliminary		Final
Rank	Diver	Nation	Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Total
	Klaus Dibiasi	Italy	108.04	1	56.14	1	164.18
	Álvaro Gaxiola	Mexico	103.33	2	51.16	4	154.49
	Win Young	United States	99.98	4	53.95	2	153.93
4	Keith Russell	United States	101.38	3	50.96	5	152.34
5	José Robinson	Mexico	91.16	11	52.46	3	143.62
6	Lothar Matthes	East Germany	92.19	7	49.56	6	141.75
7	Luis Niño	Mexico	93.66	6	47.50	7	141.16
8	Franco Cagnotto	Italy	94.73	5	44.16	10	138.89
9	Mikhail Safonov	Soviet Union	91.43	10	47.34	8	138.77
10	Vladimir Vasin	Soviet Union	91.91	9	46.49	9	138.40
11	Tord Andersson	Sweden	92.06	8	39.15	12	131.21
12	Bernd Wucherpfennig	West Germany	89.66	12	39.83	11	129.49
13	Włodzimierz Mejsak	Poland	89.41	13	Did not advance
14	Karl-Heinz Schwemmer	West Germany	89.00	14	Did not advance
15	Donald Wagstaff	Australia	88.99	15	Did not advance
16	Viktor Pogozhev	Soviet Union	86.89	16	Did not advance
17	Richard Gilbert	United States	86.70	17	Did not advance
18	Klaus Konzorr	West Germany	86.69	18	Did not advance
19	Waguih Aboul Seoud	Egypt	85.89	19	Did not advance
20	Rolf Sperling	East Germany	85.51	20	Did not advance
21	Jakub Puchow	Poland	85.14	21	Did not advance
22	Jerzy Kowalewski	Poland	85.08	22	Did not advance
23	Junji Yuasa	Japan	84.10	23	Did not advance
24	Toshio Otsubo	Japan	83.18	24	Did not advance
25	Bob Eaton	Canada	82.09	25	Did not advance
26	Yosuke Arimitsu	Japan	81.72	26	Did not advance
27	Robin Baskerville	Great Britain	81.23	27	Did not advance
28	David Priestley	Great Britain	80.30	28	Did not advance
29	José Ponce	Cuba	80.02	29	Did not advance
30	Alberto Moreno	Cuba	78.28	30	Did not advance
31	Song Jae-Ung	South Korea	77.30	31	Did not advance
32	Diego Heñao	Colombia	74.09	32	Did not advance
33	Kenneth Sully	Canada	65.41	33	Did not advance
34	Jerry Anderson	Puerto Rico	65.14	34	Did not advance
35	Héctor Bas	Puerto Rico	47.97	35	Did not advance
-	Edwin Barrundia	Guatemala	DNS	-	Did not advance

References

"Diving at the 1968 Summer Olympics: Platform, Men". Olympedia. Retrieved 18 May 2020.

Sources

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.

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[1] "Diving at the 1968 Summer Olympics: Platform, Men". Olympedia. Retrieved 18 May 2020.

Diving at the 1968 Summer Olympics

3 m springboard	men	women
10 m platform	men	women