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

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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
← 1964
1972 →

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

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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

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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

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Rank Diver Nation Preliminary Final
Points Rank Dive 1 Dive 2 Dive 3 Points Rank Total
1st place, gold medalist(s) Milena Duchková  Czechoslovakia 51.61 3 18.46 19.24 20.28 57.98 1 109.59
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Natalya Kuznetsova  Soviet Union 53.80 1 17.02 15.36 18.96 51.34 3 105.14
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 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

References

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

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