Diving at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's 10 metre platform

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Men's 10 metre platform
at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad
Date22–23 August
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg Matthew Mitcham Flag of Australia.svg  Australia
Silver medal icon.svg Zhou Lüxin Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China
Bronze medal icon.svg Gleb Galperin Flag of Russia.svg  Russia
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Men's 10 metre platform competition at the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics was held from August 22 to August 23, at the Beijing National Aquatics Center. It was an individual diving competition, with dives performed from an inflexible platform, unlike the springboard used for three metre diving, ten metres above the surface of the water.

The individual diving competitions all consist of three rounds. In the first, the 30 divers each perform six dives. The top 18 divers advance to the semifinals. Each diver again performs six dives, and the top 12 divers from among those dives advance to the finals. Preliminary scores are ignored at this point, as only the semifinal scores are considered in advancement. In the final round, the divers perform a final set of six dives, with the scores from those dives, and only those dives, used to determine final ranking.

Seven judges evaluate each dive, giving the diver a score between 0 and 10 with increments of 0.5. The two highest and two lowest scores from the judges are dropped. The remaining three scores are summed, and then multiplied by the degree of difficulty of the dive to give the total score for the dive. Scores from each dive in the round are summed to give the round score.

Finals

At the finals, held on August 23, 2008, Zhou Luxin of China was leading in the points until his last dive, where an imperfect entry gave him merely 74.80 points. Subsequently, Matthew Mitcham of Australia very strongly executed a two and a half somersault with two and a half twists in the pike position, a dive with a very high degree of difficulty of 3.8. The seven judges scored Mitcham 9.0, 9.5, 9.5, 10, 10, 10 and 10 points, giving him 112.10 points for the dive, at that time the highest single dive score in Olympic history and surpassed only in 2021 by Yang Jian. Mitcham finished on 537.95 points and was awarded the gold medal, denying China a clean sweep of all of the diving gold medals. Zhou Luxin finished on 533.15 points, securing the silver. Gleb Galperin of Russia finished on 525.80 points, securing the bronze. [1]

Results

RankDiverNationPreliminarySemifinalFinal
PointsRankPointsRankPoints
Gold medal icon.svg Matthew Mitcham Flag of Australia.svg  Australia 509.602532.202537.95
Silver medal icon.svg Zhou Lüxin Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 539.801526.203533.15
Bronze medal icon.svg Gleb Galperin Flag of Russia.svg  Russia 499.953508.954525.80
4 Huo Liang Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 472.958549.951508.40
5 José Guerra Flag of Cuba.svg  Cuba 443.2011438.8011507.15
6 Mathew Helm Flag of Australia.svg  Australia 484.405485.206467.70
7 Tom Daley Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain 440.4012458.608463.55
8 Rommel Pacheco Flag of Mexico.svg  Mexico 465.459453.809460.20
9 Patrick Hausding Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 423.4017453.3010448.30
10 David Boudia Flag of the United States.svg  United States 481.706491.555441.45
11 Juan Urán Flag of Colombia.svg  Colombia 418.0018436.1012414.80
12 Thomas Finchum Flag of the United States.svg  United States 477.007474.957412.65
13 Peter Waterfield Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain 497.654430.9513Did not advance
14 Vadim Kaptur Flag of Belarus (1995-2012).svg  Belarus 432.9013420.5514Did not advance
15 Jeinkler Aguirre Flag of Cuba.svg  Cuba 423.7516414.2015Did not advance
16 Riley McCormick Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 425.9514391.3516Did not advance
17 Reuben Ross Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 425.6015390.7517Did not advance
18 Sascha Klein Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 453.8010382.8518Did not advance
19 Hugo Parisi Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil 412.9519did not advance
20 Kostyantyn Milyayev Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine 410.0520did not advance
21 Aliaksandr Varlamau Flag of Belarus (1995-2012).svg  Belarus 406.6021did not advance
22 Germán Sánchez Flag of Mexico.svg  Mexico 399.3522did not advance
23 Constantin Popovici Flag of Romania.svg  Romania 392.3023did not advance
24 Cassius Duran Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil 389.6524did not advance
25 Francesco Dell'Uomo Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 388.8025did not advance
26 Bryan Nickson Lomas Flag of Malaysia.svg  Malaysia 384.3526did not advance
27 Oleg Vikulov Flag of Russia.svg  Russia 375.4027did not advance
28 Rexel Ryan Fabriga Flag of the Philippines.svg  Philippines 358.8528did not advance
29 Anton Zakharov Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine 344.9529did not advance
30 Kim Chon-man Flag of North Korea.svg  North Korea 328.8530did not advance

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References

  1. "Mitcham Performs Highest Scoring Dive in Olympic History". Olympics. Retrieved 2 August 2014.