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
Klaus Dibiasi  Italy Álvaro Gaxiola  Mexico Win Young  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
	Klaus Dibiasi (ITA)	108.04	1	56.14	1	164.18
	Álvaro Gaxiola (MEX)	103.33	2	51.16	4	154.49
	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 Seoud (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

• 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 2007-01-04.