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

Men's 10 metre platform
at the Games of the XVII Olympiad
Medalists
   United States
   United States
   Great Britain
Diving at the
1960 Summer Olympics
3 m springboard   men   women
10 m platform   men   women

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.

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

Rank Diver Preliminary Semi-final Final
Points Rank Points Rank Total Rank Points Rank Total
 Bob Webster (USA) 52.21 9 47.51 2 99.72 3 65.84 1 165.56
 Gary Tobian (USA) 54.10 4 51.98 1 106.08 1 59.17 2 165.25
 Brian Phelps (GBR) 57.35 1 44.50 3 101.85 2 55.28 4 157.13
4  Roberto Madrigal (MEX) 52.03 10 43.85 4 95.88 6 56.98 3 152.86
5  Rolf Sperling (EUA) 57.25 2 38.59 8 96.83 4 55.00 5 151.83
6  Gennady Galkin (URS) 54.07 5 42.67 5 96.74 5 44.95 7 141.69
7  Fritz Enskat (EUA) 51.23 13 41.80 6 93.03 7 45.83 6 138.86
8  Anatoly Sysoyev (URS) 54.03 6 39.00 7 93.03 8 42.56 8 135.59
9  Kurt Mrkwicka (AUT) 55.13 3 36.24 14 91.37 9
10  Shunsuke Kaneto (JPN) 52.65 7 38.34 11 90.99 10
11  Göran Lundqvist (SWE) 52.32 8 38.54 9 90.86 11
12  Toivo Öhman (SWE) 50.97 15 38.53 10 89.50 12
13  Ryo Mabuchi (JPN) 51.12 14 38.01 12 89.13 13
14  Antonio Sbordono (ITA) 51.90 11 36.87 13 88.77 14
15  Jerzy Kowalewski (POL) 51.24 12 35.98 15 87.22 15
16  Henri Rouquet (FRA) 50.74 16 32.81 16 83.55 16
17  John Candler (GBR) 50.20 17
18  Fabio Pajella (ITA) 50.01 18
18  Konkoly János (HUN) 50.01 18
20  Alvaro Gaxiola (MEX) 49.30 20
21  Tomáš Bauer (TCH) 46.06 20
22  Ernest Meissner (CAN) 45.71 22
23  Dóra József (HUN) 45.51 23
24  Ahmed Moharran (EGY) 45.10 24
25  Moustafa Hassan (EGY) 43.82 25
26  Pekka Heinonen (FIN) 43.49 26
27  Barry Holmes (AUS) 40.24 27
28  Lee Pil-Jong (KOR) 28.34 28

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