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

Men's 10 metre platform at the Games of the XVII Olympiad
Medalists
Bob Webster   United States   Gary Tobian   United States   Brian Phelps   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

References

• The Organizing Committee of the Games of the XVII Olympiad (1960). "The Official Report of the Organizing Committee for the Games of the XVII Olympiad, Rome 1960, Volume II" (PDF). The Organizing Committee of the Games of the XVII Olympiad. pp. pp. 589–91. Archived from the original (pdf) on August 13, 2011. Retrieved 2007-01-02.
• Herman de Wael (2001-01-26). "Diving - men's platform (Rome 1960)". Retrieved 2007-01-03.