Diving at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Men's 10 metre platform

Men's 10 metre platform
at the Games of the XX Olympiad
Medalists
  Klaus Dibiasi   Italy
  Richard Rydze   United States
  Franco Cagnotto   Italy
«1968 1976»
Diving at the
1972 Summer Olympics
3 m springboard   men   women
10 m platform   men   women

The men's 10 metre platform, also reported as platform diving, was one of four diving events on the Diving at the 1972 Summer Olympics programme.

The competition was split into two phases:

  1. Preliminary round (3 September)
    Divers performed seven dives. The twelve divers with the highest scores advanced to the final.
  2. Final (4 September)
    Divers performed three voluntary dives without limit of degrees of difficulty. The final ranking was determined by the combined score with the preliminary round.

Results

Rank Diver Preliminary Final
Points Rank Points Rank Total
 Klaus Dibiasi (ITA) 338.25 1 165.87 4 504.12
 Richard Rydze (USA) 302.16 5 178.59 1 480.75
 Franco Cagnotto (ITA) 312.93 3 162.90 5 475.83
4  Lothar Matthes (GDR) 298.41 6 167.34 3 465.75
5  David Ambartsumyan (URS) 314.31 2 149.25 8 463.56
6  Richard Earley (USA) 287.94 12 174.51 2 462.45
7  Vladimir Kapyrulin (URS) 296.40 7 162.81 6 459.21
8  Carlos Girón (MEX) 290.37 10 152.04 7 442.41
9  Michael Finneran (USA) 289.80 11 140.67 11 439.47
10  Falk Hoffmann (GDR) 291.54 8 145.17 10 436.71
11  Donald Wagstaff (AUS) 290.64 9 145.20 9 435.84
12  Aleksandr Gendrikson (URS) 305.94 4 125.10 12 431.04
13  Jacques de Schoover (FRA) 287.04 13
14  José Robinson (MEX) 284.58 14
15  Porfirio Becerril (MEX) 282.57 15
16  Karl-Heinz Schwemmer (FRG) 281.55 16
17  Jakub Puchow (POL) 281.34 17
18  Niki Stajković (AUT) 280.29 18
19  Junji Yuasa (JPN) 276.00 19
20  Ron Friesen (CAN) 272.94 20
21  Frank Dufficy (GBR) 271.77 21
22  Andrew Gill (GBR) 268.68 22
23  Wolfram Ristau (GDR) 268.59 23
24  Bernd Wucherpfennig (FRG) 267.87 24
25  Ion Ganea (ROU) 265.83 25
26  Diego Heñao (COL) 264.27 26
27  Scott Cranham (CAN) 263.52 27
28  Brian Wetheridge (GBR) 262.59 28
29  Kenneth Sully (CAN) 262.26 29
30  Klaus Konzorr (FRG) 260.01 30
31  Héctor Bas (PUR) 254.79 31
32  Kenneth Grove (AUS) 254.73 32
33  Rudolf Kruspel (AUT) 248.07 33
34  Jorge Head (ESP) 243.27 34
35  Sandro Rossi (SUI) 225.87 35

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