Diving at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Men's 10 metre platform

Men's 10 metre platform at the Games of the XX Olympiad
Medalists
Klaus Dibiasi  Italy Richard Rydze  United States Franco Cagnotto  Italy

Diving at the 1972 Summer Olympics
3 m springboard		men		women
10 m platform		men		women

The men's 10 metre platform, also reported as platform diving, was one of four diving events on the Diving at the 1972 Summer Olympics programme.

The competition was split into two phases:

1. Preliminary round (3 September)

   Divers performed seven dives. The twelve divers with the highest scores advanced to the final.

2. Final (4 September)

   Divers performed three voluntary dives without limit of degrees of difficulty. The final ranking was determined by the combined score with the preliminary round.

Results

Rank	Diver	Preliminary		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Total
	Klaus Dibiasi (ITA)	338.25	1	165.87	4	504.12
	Richard Rydze (USA)	302.16	5	178.59	1	480.75
	Franco Cagnotto (ITA)	312.93	3	162.90	5	475.83
4	Lothar Matthes (GDR)	298.41	6	167.34	3	465.75
5	David Ambartsumyan (URS)	314.31	2	149.25	8	463.56
6	Richard Earley (USA)	287.94	12	174.51	2	462.45
7	Vladimir Kapyrulin (URS)	296.40	7	162.81	6	459.21
8	Carlos Girón (MEX)	290.37	10	152.04	7	442.41
9	Michael Finneran (USA)	289.80	11	140.67	11	439.47
10	Falk Hoffmann (GDR)	291.54	8	145.17	10	436.71
11	Donald Wagstaff (AUS)	290.64	9	145.20	9	435.84
12	Aleksandr Gendrikson (URS)	305.94	4	125.10	12	431.04
13	Jacques de Schoover (FRA)	287.04	13
14	José Robinson (MEX)	284.58	14
15	Porfirio Becerril (MEX)	282.57	15
16	Karl-Heinz Schwemmer (FRG)	281.55	16
17	Jakub Puchow (POL)	281.34	17
18	Niki Stajković (AUT)	280.29	18
19	Junji Yuasa (JPN)	276.00	19
20	Ron Friesen (CAN)	272.94	20
21	Frank Dufficy (GBR)	271.77	21
22	Andrew Gill (GBR)	268.68	22
23	Wolfram Ristau (GDR)	268.59	23
24	Bernd Wucherpfennig (FRG)	267.87	24
25	Ion Ganea (ROU)	265.83	25
26	Diego Heñao (COL)	264.27	26
27	Scott Cranham (CAN)	263.52	27
28	Brian Wetheridge (GBR)	262.59	28
29	Kenneth Sully (CAN)	262.26	29
30	Klaus Konzorr (FRG)	260.01	30
31	Héctor Bas (PUR)	254.79	31
32	Kenneth Grove (AUS)	254.73	32
33	Rudolf Kruspel (AUT)	248.07	33
34	22x20px Jorge Head (ESP)	243.27	34
35	Sandro Rossi (SUI)	225.87	35