Diving at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's 10 metre platform

The men's 10 metre platform, also reported as 10-metre high diving, was one of four diving events on the Diving at the 1960 Summer Olympics programme.[1]

Men's 10 metre platform
at the Games of the XVII Olympiad
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Bob Webster  United States
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Gary Tobian  United States
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Brian Phelps  Great Britain
← 1956
1964 →

The competition was split into three phases:

  1. Preliminary round (31 August)
    Divers performed four voluntary dives without limit of degrees of difficulty. The sixteen divers with the highest scores advanced to the semi-finals.
  2. Semi-final (1 September)
    Divers performed three voluntary dives without limit of degrees of difficulty. The eight divers with the highest combined scores from the preliminary round and semi-final advanced to the final.
  3. Final (2 September)
    Divers performed three voluntary dives without limit of degrees of difficulty. The final ranking was determined by the combined score from all three rounds.

Results edit

Rank Diver Nation Preliminary Semi-final Final
Points Rank Points Rank Total Rank Points Rank Total
  Bob Webster   United States 52.21 9 47.51 2 99.72 3 65.84 1 165.56
  Gary Tobian   United States 54.10 4 51.98 1 106.08 1 59.17 2 165.25
  Brian Phelps   Great Britain 57.35 1 44.50 3 101.85 2 55.28 4 157.13
4 Roberto Madrigal   Mexico 52.03 10 43.85 4 95.88 6 56.98 3 152.86
5 Rolf Sperling   United Team of Germany 57.25 2 38.59 8 96.83 4 55.00 5 151.83
6 Gennady Galkin   Soviet Union 54.07 5 42.67 5 96.74 5 44.95 7 141.69
7 Fritz Enskat   United Team of Germany 51.23 13 41.80 6 93.03 7 45.83 6 138.86
8 Anatoly Sysoyev   Soviet Union 54.03 6 39.00 7 93.03 8 42.56 8 135.59
9 Kurt Mrkwicka   Austria 55.13 3 36.24 14 91.37 9 did not advance
10 Shunsuke Kaneto   Japan 52.65 7 38.34 11 90.99 10 did not advance
11 Göran Lundqvist   Sweden 52.32 8 38.54 9 90.86 11 did not advance
12 Toivo Öhman   Sweden 50.97 15 38.53 10 89.50 12 did not advance
13 Ryo Mabuchi   Japan 51.12 14 38.01 12 89.13 13 did not advance
14 Antonio Sbordone   Italy 51.90 11 36.87 13 88.77 14 did not advance
15 Jerzy Kowalewski   Poland 51.24 12 35.98 15 87.22 15 did not advance
16 Henri Rouquet   France 50.74 16 32.81 16 83.55 16 did not advance
17 John Candler   Great Britain 50.20 17 did not advance
18 Fabio Paiella   Italy 50.01 18 did not advance
18 Konkoly János   Hungary 50.01 18 did not advance
20 Alvaro Gaxiola   Mexico 49.30 20 did not advance
21 Tomáš Bauer   Czechoslovakia 46.06 20 did not advance
22 Ernest Meissner   Canada 45.71 22 did not advance
23 Dóra József   Hungary 45.51 23 did not advance
24 Ahmed Moharran   Egypt 45.10 24 did not advance
25 Moustafa Hassan   Egypt 43.82 25 did not advance
26 Pekka Heinonen   Finland 43.49 26 did not advance
27 Barry Holmes   Australia 40.24 27 did not advance
28 Lee Pil-jung   South Korea 28.34 28 did not advance

References edit

  1. ^ "Diving at the 1960 Summer Olympics: Platform, Men". OlyMADMen. Retrieved 16 May 2020.

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