Diving at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Men's 10 metre platform

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Men's 10 metre platform
at the Games of the XXIV Olympiad
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg Greg Louganis Flag of the United States.svg  United States
Silver medal icon.svg Xiong Ni Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China
Bronze medal icon.svg Jesús Mena Flag of Mexico.svg  Mexico
  1984
1992  

The men's 10 metre platform, also reported as platform diving, was one of four diving events on the Diving at the 1988 Summer Olympics programme. [1]

The competition was split into two phases:

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

Days after suffering a concussion during a missed dive in winning the 3 metre springboard event, defending champion Greg Louganis won the fourth gold medal of his Olympic career, scoring a near-perfect 86.70 points on his final dive to win by a narrow margin of 1.14 points. [2]

Results

RankDiverNationPreliminaryFinal
PointsRankPoints
Gold medal icon.svg Greg Louganis Flag of the United States.svg  United States 617.671638.61
Silver medal icon.svg Xiong Ni Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 601.502637.47
Bronze medal icon.svg Jesús Mena Flag of Mexico.svg  Mexico 523.509594.39
4 Giorgi Chogovadze Flag of the Soviet Union.svg  Soviet Union 540.907585.96
5 Jan Hempel Flag of East Germany.svg  East Germany 558.035583.77
6 Li Kongzheng Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 578.313543.81
7 Steffen Haage Flag of East Germany.svg  East Germany 529.688541.02
8 Vladimir Timoshinin Flag of the Soviet Union.svg  Soviet Union 570.754534.66
9 Jorge Mondragón Flag of Mexico.svg  Mexico 518.5211511.89
10 Isao Yamagishi Flag of Japan (1870-1999).svg  Japan 517.8012500.70
11 David Bédard Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 524.1010499.53
12 Patrick Jeffrey Flag of the United States.svg  United States 553.896483.54
13 Albin Killat Flag of Germany.svg  West Germany 517.2313Did not advance
14 Keita Kaneto Flag of Japan (1870-1999).svg  Japan 497.0414Did not advance
15 Robert Morgan Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain 489.2715Did not advance
16 Domenico Rinaldi Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 476.0116Did not advance
17 Oscar Bertone Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 471.2417Did not advance
18 Craig Rogerson Flag of Australia.svg  Australia 469.4718Did not advance
19 Graeme Banks Flag of Australia.svg  Australia 462.8719Did not advance
20 Jeffrey Hirst Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 453.9920Did not advance
21 Jeffrey Arbon Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain 450.1821Did not advance
22 Willi Meyer Flag of Germany.svg  West Germany 449.0722Did not advance
23 Frédéric Pierre Flag of France.svg  France 437.0123Did not advance
24 Tom Lemaire Flag of Belgium (civil).svg  Belgium 433.6824Did not advance
25 Emilio Ratia Flag of Spain.svg  Spain 425.7325Did not advance
26 Lee Sun-gee Flag of South Korea (1984-1997).svg  South Korea 420.4526Did not advance

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References

  1. "Diving at the 1988 Summer Olympics: Platform, Men". Olympedia. Retrieved 21 May 2020.
  2. Simon Burnton (28 March 2012). "50 stunning Olympic moments No20: Greg Louganis's perfect dive 1988". The Guardian.

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