Diving at the 1980 Summer Olympics – Men's 10 metre platform

Men's 10 metre platform
at the Games of the XXII Olympiad
Medalists
    East Germany
    Soviet Union
    Soviet Union
«1976 1984»
Diving at the 1980 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 1980 Summer Olympics programme.

The competition was split into two phases:

  1. Preliminary round (27 July)
    Divers performed ten dives. The eight divers with the highest scores advanced to the final.
  2. Final (28 July)
    Divers performed another set of ten dives and the score here obtained was combined with half of the preliminary score to determine the final ranking.

Results

Rank Diver Preliminary Final
Points Rank Points Rank ½ Prel. Total
 Falk Hoffmann (GDR) 546.12 1 562.590 1 273.060 835.650
 Vladimir Aleynik (URS) 539.07 2 550.170 4 269.535 819.705
 David Ambartsumyan (URS) 518.82 4 558.030 2 259.410 817.440
4  Carlos Girón (MEX) 515.37 5 552.120 3 257.685 809.805
5  Dieter Waskow (GDR) 515.16 6 545.220 5 257.580 802.800
6  Thomas Knuths (GDR) 521.01 3 523.470 7 260.505 783.975
7  Sergey Nemtsanov (URS) 487.20 8 532.260 6 243.600 775.860
8  Niki Stajković (AUT) 493.89 7 478.200 8 246.945 725.145
9  Christopher Snode (GBR) 468.21 9
10  Claus Thomsen (DEN) 467.76 10
11  Salvador Sobrino (MEX) 456.87 11
12  Kenneth Grove (AUS) 447.12 12
13  Alexandru Adrian Bagiu (ROU) 436.02 13
14  Némedi Károly (HUN) 429.75 14
15  Francisco Rueda (MEX) 428.52 15
16  Stephen Foley (AUS) 427.44 16
17  Radoslav Radev (BUL) 406.89 17
18  Petar Georgiev (BUL) 391.32 18
19  Martyn Brown (GBR) 380.91 19
20  Milton Machado (BRA) 373.06 20
21  Cesar Augusto Jiménez (DOM) 369.09 21
22  David Parrington (ZIM) 356.76 22
23  Abdullah Mayouf (KUW) 326.34 23

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