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

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.

Men's 10 metre platform
at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad
Date22-23 August
Medalists
Matthew Mitcham  Australia
Zhou Lüxin  China
Gleb Galperin  Russia

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, the highest single dive score in Olympic history. 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

Rank Diver Nation Preliminary Semifinal Final
Points Rank Points Rank Points
Matthew Mitcham Australia509.602532.202537.95
Zhou Lüxin China539.801526.203533.15
Gleb Galperin Russia499.953508.954525.80
4Huo Liang China472.958549.951508.40
5José Guerra Cuba443.2011438.8011507.15
6Mathew Helm Australia484.405485.206467.70
7Tom Daley Great Britain440.4012458.608463.55
8Rommel Pacheco Mexico465.459453.809460.20
9Patrick Hausding Germany423.4017453.3010448.30
10David Boudia United States481.706491.555441.45
11Juan Urán Colombia418.0018436.1012414.80
12Thomas Finchum United States477.007474.957412.65
13Peter Waterfield Great Britain497.654430.9513Did not advance
14Vadim Kaptur Belarus432.9013420.5514Did not advance
15Jeinkler Aguirre Cuba423.7516414.2015Did not advance
16Riley McCormick Canada425.9514391.3516Did not advance
17Reuben Ross Canada425.6015390.7517Did not advance
18Sascha Klein Germany453.8010382.8518Did not advance
19Hugo Parisi Brazil412.9519Did not advance
20Kostyantyn Milyayev Ukraine410.0520Did not advance
21Aliaksandr Varlamau Belarus406.6021Did not advance
22Germán Sánchez Mexico399.3522Did not advance
23Constantin Popovici Romania392.3023Did not advance
24Cassius Duran Brazil389.6524Did not advance
25Francesco Dell'Uomo Italy388.8025Did not advance
26Bryan Nickson Lomas Malaysia384.3526Did not advance
27Oleg Vikulov Russia375.4027Did not advance
28Rexel Ryan Fabriga Philippines358.8528Did not advance
29Anton Zakharov Ukraine344.9529Did not advance
30Kim Chon-man North Korea328.8530Did not advance

References

Video summary of men's 10m platform diving at the 2008 Summer Olympics

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