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

Women's 10 metre platform
at the Games of the XIX Olympiad
Date22 October (Preliminary)
23 October (Finals)
Competitors24 from 15 nations
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Milena Duchková  Czechoslovakia
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Natalya Lobanova  Soviet Union
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Ann Peterson  United States

The women'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 12th appearance of the event, which has been held at every Olympic Games since the 1912 Summer Olympics.

Competition format

The competition was split into two phases:

  1. Preliminary round (22 October)
    Divers performed three compulsory dives with limited degrees of difficulty and one voluntary dive without limits. The twelve divers with the highest scores advanced to the final.
  2. Final (23 October)
    Divers performed one compulsory dive with a limited degree of difficulty and two voluntary dives without limits. The final ranking was determined by the combined score with the preliminary round.

Schedule

All times are Central Time Zone (UTC-6)

Date Time Round
Tuesday, 22 October 1968 17:00 Preliminary
Wednesday, 23 October 1968 17:00 Final

Results

RankDiverNationPreliminaryFinal
PointsRankDive 1Dive 2Dive 3PointsRankTotal
1st place, gold medalist(s)Milena Duchková Czechoslovakia 51.61318.4619.2420.2857.981109.59
2nd place, silver medalist(s)Natalya Kuznetsova Soviet Union 53.80117.0215.3618.9651.343105.14
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)Ann Peterson United States 52.14216.1216.0616.7948.974101.11
4Beverly Boys Canada 44.651122.0416.3214.9653.32297.97
5Bogusława Pietkiewicz Poland 49.53413.3415.1817.0445.56895.09
6Regina Krause West Germany 46.77815.0815.3615.8746.31793.08
7Keiko Osaki Japan 45.661015.4114.4917.5247.42593.08
8Nancy Robertson Canada 44.101216.9014.3015.3646.56390.66
9Ingeborg Pertmayr Austria 48.23514.9513.2014.7441.20989.43
10Barbara Talmage United States 47.09715.3410.5614.3040.201087.29
11Ingeborg Busch West Germany 47.22614.9514.309.8438.091185.31
12Mandi Haswell Great Britain 45.72915.608.3612.6536.611282.33
13Bertha Baraldi Mexico 47.7413did not advance
14Galina Alekseyeva Soviet Union 47.3114did not advance
15Elzbieta Wierniuk Poland 47.2615did not advance
16Dora Hernández Mexico 46.9616did not advance
17Tarja Liljeström Finland 46.3917did not advance
18Robyn Bradshaw Australia 45.5818did not advance
19Sylvia Fiedler East Germany 43.3519did not advance
20Lesley Bush United States 43.7220did not advance
21Bruna Rossi Italy 43.5421did not advance
22Nadezhda Karpukhina Soviet Union 43.5222did not advance
23Claudia Reiche East Germany 41.0223did not advance
24Park Chung-Cha South Korea 39.0324did not advance

References

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

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