Diving at the 1968 Summer Olympics

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At the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, four diving events were contested during a competition that took place at the Francisco Márquez Olympic Pool, from 17 to 26 October (October 21, rest day), comprising 83 divers from 23 nations.

Contents 1 Medal summary 1.1 Men 1.2 Women 2 Medal table 3 Participating nations 4 Notes 5 References

[edit] Medal summary

The events are named according to the International Olympic Committee labelling, but they appeared on the official report as "springboard diving" and "high diving" (or "platform diving"), respectively.^[1]

[edit] Men

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
3 metre springboard details	Bernard Wrightson United States (USA)	Klaus Dibiasi Italy (ITA)	James Henry United States (USA)
10 metre platform details	Klaus Dibiasi Italy (ITA)	Alvaro Gaxiola Mexico (MEX)	Edwin Young United States (USA)

[edit] Women

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
3 metre springboard details	Susanne Gossick United States (USA)	Tamara Fedosova-Pogozheva Soviet Union (URS)	Keala O'Sullivan United States (USA)
10 metre platform details	Milena Duchková Czechoslovakia (TCH)	Natalya Kuznetsova-Lobanova Soviet Union (URS)	Ann Peterson United States (USA)

[edit] Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States (USA)	2	0	4	6
2	Italy (ITA)	1	1	0	2
3	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	1	0	0	1
4	Soviet Union (URS)	0	2	0	2
5	Mexico (MEX)	0	1	0	1

[edit] Participating nations

Here are listed the nations that were represented in the diving events and, in brackets, the number of national competitors.

Australia (2) Austria (1) Canada (4) Colombia (3) Cuba (2) Czechoslovakia (1)

Dominican Republic (1) East Germany (5) Finland (2) Great Britain (5) Guatemala (1) Italy (4)

Japan (4) Mexico (6) Netherlands (2) Norway (1) Poland (5) Puerto Rico (2)

South Korea (2) Soviet Union (10) Sweden (1) United States (11) West Germany (8)

[edit] Notes

1. ^ Organizing Committee of the Games of the XIX Olympiad, pp. 376, 379, 737.

[edit] References

• Olympic Medal Winners. International Olympic Committee. Retrieved on November 22, 2006.
• 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), Mexico: The Organising Committee for The Games of the XVIII Olympiad. Retrieved on January 4, 2007. 

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