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

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

Women's 10 metre platform at the Games of the XIX Olympiad
Date	22 October (Preliminary) 23 October (Finals)
Competitors	24 from 15 nations
Medalists
Milena Duchková  Czechoslovakia Natalya Lobanova  Soviet Union Ann Peterson  United States

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

Rank	Diver	Nation	Preliminary		Final
			Points	Rank	Dive 1	Dive 2	Dive 3	Points	Rank	Total
	Milena Duchková	Czechoslovakia	51.61	3	18.46	19.24	20.28	57.98	1	109.59
	Natalya Kuznetsova	Soviet Union	53.80	1	17.02	15.36	18.96	51.34	3	105.14
	Ann Peterson	United States	52.14	2	16.12	16.06	16.79	48.97	4	101.11
4	Beverly Boys	Canada	44.65	11	22.04	16.32	14.96	53.32	2	97.97
5	Bogusława Pietkiewicz	Poland	49.53	4	13.34	15.18	17.04	45.56	8	95.09
6	Regina Krause	West Germany	46.77	8	15.08	15.36	15.87	46.31	7	93.08
7	Keiko Osaki	Japan	45.66	10	15.41	14.49	17.52	47.42	5	93.08
8	Nancy Robertson	Canada	44.10	12	16.90	14.30	15.36	46.56	3	90.66
9	Ingeborg Pertmayr	Austria	48.23	5	14.95	13.20	14.74	41.20	9	89.43
10	Barbara Talmage	United States	47.09	7	15.34	10.56	14.30	40.20	10	87.29
11	Ingeborg Busch	West Germany	47.22	6	14.95	14.30	9.84	38.09	11	85.31
12	Mandi Haswell	Great Britain	45.72	9	15.60	8.36	12.65	36.61	12	82.33
13	Bertha Baraldi	Mexico	47.74	13	did not advance
14	Galina Alekseyeva	Soviet Union	47.31	14	did not advance
15	Elzbieta Wierniuk	Poland	47.26	15	did not advance
16	Dora Hernández	Mexico	46.96	16	did not advance
17	Tarja Liljeström	Finland	46.39	17	did not advance
18	Robyn Bradshaw	Australia	45.58	18	did not advance
19	Sylvia Fiedler	East Germany	43.35	19	did not advance
20	Lesley Bush	United States	43.72	20	did not advance
21	Bruna Rossi	Italy	43.54	21	did not advance
22	Nadezhda Karpukhina	Soviet Union	43.52	22	did not advance
23	Claudia Reiche	East Germany	41.02	23	did not advance
24	Park Chung-Cha	South Korea	39.03	24	did not advance

Sources

• Organising Committee of the Games of the XIX Olympiad (1969). The Official Report of the Games of the XIX Olympiad Mexico 1968, Volume 3: The Games (pdf) (in French and English). Mexico: Organising Committee for The Games of the XVIII Olympiad. pp. p. 739. Retrieved 4 January 2007.