The men's 10 metre platform, also reported as high diving or platform diving, was one of four diving events on the Diving at the 1968 Summer Olympics programme. It was the 14th appearance of the event, which has been held at every Olympic Games since the 1904 Summer Olympics.

Competition format The competition was split into two phases:

Preliminary round (24–25 October) Divers performed six compulsory dives with limited degrees of difficulty and one voluntary dives without limits. The twelve divers with the highest scores advanced to the final. Final (26 October) Divers performed three voluntary dives without limit of degrees of difficulty. The final ranking was determined by the combined score with the preliminary round.

Schedule All times are Central Time Zone (UTC-6)

DateTimeRoundThursday-Friday, 24–25 October 196817:00PreliminarySaturday, 26 October 196817:00Final

Results

Rank Diver Nation Preliminary Final Points Rank Dive 1 Dive 2 Dive 3 Points Rank Total 108.04 1 19.92 20.02 16.20 56.14 1 164.18 103.33 2 16.08 16.10 18.98 51.16 4 154.49 99.98 4 15.39 17.68 20.88 53.95 2 153.93 4 101.38 3 18.72 11.07 21.17 50.96 5 152.34 5 91.16 11 18.00 17.82 16.64 52.46 3 143.62 6 92.19 7 14.72 16.90 17.94 49.56 6 141.75 7 93.66 6 14.16 15.66 17.68 47.50 7 141.16 8 94.73 5 15.08 13.68 15.40 44.16 10 138.89 9 91.43 10 14.30 15.64 17.40 47.34 8 138.77 10 91.91 9 17.52 15.86 13.11 46.49 9 138.40 11 92.06 8 12.65 14.74 11.76 39.15 12 131.21 12 89.66 12 15.41 15.84 8.58 39.83 11 129.49 13 89.41 13 did not advance 14 89.00 14 did not advance 15 88.99 15 did not advance 16 86.89 16 did not advance 17 86.70 17 did not advance 18 86.69 18 did not advance 19 85.89 19 did not advance 20 85.51 20 did not advance 21 85.14 21 did not advance 22 85.08 22 did not advance 23 84.10 23 did not advance 24 83.18 24 did not advance 25 82.09 25 did not advance 26 81.72 26 did not advance 27 81.23 27 did not advance 28 80.30 28 did not advance 29 80.02 29 did not advance 30 78.28 30 did not advance 31 Song Jae-Ung 77.30 31 did not advance 32 74.09 32 did not advance 33 65.41 33 did not advance 34 65.14 34 did not advance 35 47.97 35 did not advance - DNS - did not advance

References

Sources