Diving at the 1976 Summer Olympics – Men's 10 metre platform

The men's 10 meter platform, also reported as platform diving, was one of four diving events on the Diving at the 1976 Summer Olympics programme.[1]

Men's 10 metre platform
at the Games of the XXI Olympiad
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Klaus Dibiasi  Italy
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Greg Louganis  United States
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Vladimir Aleynik  Soviet Union
← 1972
1980 →

The competition was split into two phases:

  1. Preliminary round (26 July)
    Divers performed ten dives. The eight divers with the highest scores advanced to the final.
  2. Final (27 July)
    Divers performed another set of ten dives and the score here obtained determined the final ranking.

Results edit

Rank Diver Nation Preliminary Final
Points Rank Points
  Klaus Dibiasi   Italy 570.54 2 600.51
  Greg Louganis   United States 583.50 1 576.99
  Vladimir Aleynik   Soviet Union 526.83 6 548.61
4 Kent Vosler   United States 554.37 3 544.14
5 Patrick Moore   United States 510.75 8 538.17
6 Falk Hoffmann   East Germany 513.96 7 531.60
7 David Ambartsumyan   Soviet Union 532.89 5 516.21
8 Carlos Girón   Mexico 540.75 4 513.93
9 Sergey Nemtsanov   Soviet Union 502.26 9 Did not advance
10 Dieter Waskow   East Germany 497.16 10 Did not advance
11 Frank Taubert   East Germany 494.95 11 Did not advance
12 Niki Stajković   Austria 486.69 12 Did not advance
13 Claudio De Miro   Italy 470.43 13 Did not advance
14 Ken Armstrong   Canada 467.13 14 Did not advance
15 Donald Wagstaff   Australia 454.25 15 Did not advance
16 Yoshino Nishide   Japan 450.75 16 Did not advance
17 Scott Cranham   Canada 439.80 17 Did not advance
18 Dieter Dörr   West Germany 438.96 18 Did not advance
19 Ricardo Velarde   Mexico 438.48 19 Did not advance
20 Joël Suty   France 426.72 20 Did not advance
21 Milton Braga   Brazil 424.68 21 Did not advance
22 Glen Grout   Canada 419.46 22 Did not advance
23 Martyn Brown   Great Britain 413.34 23 Did not advance
24 Steve Foley   Australia 396.90 24 Did not advance
25 Nelson Suárez   Ecuador 396.59 25 Did not advance
- Michael Worisch   Austria DNS - Did not advance
- Norbert Huda   West Germany DNS - Did not advance
- Franco Cagnotto   Italy DNS - Did not advance
- Jamal Al-Ghareeb   Kuwait DNS - Did not advance

References edit

  1. ^ "Diving at the 1976 Summer Olympics: Platform, Men". Olympedia. Retrieved 19 May 2020.

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