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

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
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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]

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
1st place, gold medalist(s) Bob Webster  United States 52.21 9 47.51 2 99.72 3 65.84 1 165.56
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Gary Tobian  United States 54.10 4 51.98 1 106.08 1 59.17 2 165.25
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 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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