Women's 10 metre platform competition at the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics took place from August 20 to August 21, 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 29 divers each perform five dives. The top 18 divers advance to the semifinals. Each diver again performs five 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 five 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; scores below 7.0 or above 9.5 are rare. The two highest and two lowest scores from each judge are dropped. The remaining three scores are summed, and 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.
Results
RankDiverNationPreliminarySemifinalFinalPointsRankPointsRankPoints Chen Ruolin 428.80 1 444.60 1 447.70 403.85 3 374.10 4 437.05 Wang Xin 420.30 2 388.55 3 429.904 343.60 7 400.75 2 380.955 345.70 6 349.50 5 343.606 340.35 8 331.35 8 338.157 296.50 17 335.25 7 332.108 320.40 12 297.20 12 328.709 370.70 5 346.10 6 311.8010 313.90 14 301.75 11 303.5011 331.40 9 314.60 10 296.3012 309.45 16 315.45 9 285.8513 328.30 11 296.60 13 Did not advance14 329.00 10 292.95 14 Did not advance15 313.05 15 283.15 15 Did not advance16 Kim Un-hyang 316.20 13 267.00 16 Did not advance17 Kim Jin-ok 291.90 18 259.40 17 Did not advance18 383.75 4 250.30 18 Did not advance19 290.80 19 did not advance20 290.40 20 did not advance21 289.95 21 did not advance22 287.70 22 did not advance23 283.75 23 did not advance24 279.10 24 did not advance25 255.30 25 did not advance26 252.00 26 did not advance27 249.20 27 did not advance28 240.45 28 did not advance29 234.30 29 did not advance
References Diving Women's 10m Platform Reports - The official website of the BEIJING 2008 Olympic Games Diving - Olympics Sports - 2008 Summer Olympics - Beijing, China - ESPN