title: Diving at the 1968 Summer Olympics – Men's 10 metre platform
text: # Diving at the 1968 Summer Olympics – Men's 10 metre platform
  
  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)
  
  | Date | Time | Round |
  | - | - | - |
  | Thursday-Friday, 24–25 October 1968 | 17:00 | Preliminary |
  | Saturday, 26 October 1968 | 17:00 | Final |
  
  ## Results
  
  | Rank | Diver | Nation | Preliminary | Preliminary | Final | Final | Final | Final | Final | Final |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | Rank | Diver | Nation | Points | Rank | Dive 1 | Dive 2 | Dive 3 | Points | Rank | Total |
  | | Klaus Dibiasi | Italy | 108.04 | 1 | 19.92 | 20.02 | 16.20 | 56.14 | 1 | 164.18 |
  | | Álvaro Gaxiola | Mexico | 103.33 | 2 | 16.08 | 16.10 | 18.98 | 51.16 | 4 | 154.49 |
  | | Win Young | United States | 99.98 | 4 | 15.39 | 17.68 | 20.88 | 53.95 | 2 | 153.93 |
  | 4 | Keith Russell | United States | 101.38 | 3 | 18.72 | 11.07 | 21.17 | 50.96 | 5 | 152.34 |
  | 5 | José Robinson | Mexico | 91.16 | 11 | 18.00 | 17.82 | 16.64 | 52.46 | 3 | 143.62 |
  | 6 | Lothar Matthes | East Germany | 92.19 | 7 | 14.72 | 16.90 | 17.94 | 49.56 | 6 | 141.75 |
  | 7 | Luis Niño | Mexico | 93.66 | 6 | 14.16 | 15.66 | 17.68 | 47.50 | 7 | 141.16 |
  | 8 | Franco Cagnotto | Italy | 94.73 | 5 | 15.08 | 13.68 | 15.40 | 44.16 | 10 | 138.89 |
  | 9 | Mikhail Safonov | Soviet Union | 91.43 | 10 | 14.30 | 15.64 | 17.40 | 47.34 | 8 | 138.77 |
  | 10 | Vladimir Vasin | Soviet Union | 91.91 | 9 | 17.52 | 15.86 | 13.11 | 46.49 | 9 | 138.40 |
  | 11 | Tord Andersson | Sweden | 92.06 | 8 | 12.65 | 14.74 | 11.76 | 39.15 | 12 | 131.21 |
  | 12 | Bernd Wucherpfennig | West Germany | 89.66 | 12 | 15.41 | 15.84 | 8.58 | 39.83 | 11 | 129.49 |
  | 13 | Włodzimierz Mejsak | Poland | 89.41 | 13 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
  | 14 | Karl-Heinz Schwemmer | West Germany | 89.00 | 14 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
  | 15 | Donald Wagstaff | Australia | 88.99 | 15 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
  | 16 | Viktor Pogozhev | Soviet Union | 86.89 | 16 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
  | 17 | Richard Gilbert | United States | 86.70 | 17 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
  | 18 | Klaus Konzorr | West Germany | 86.69 | 18 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
  | 19 | Waguih Aboul Seoud | Egypt | 85.89 | 19 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
  | 20 | Rolf Sperling | East Germany | 85.51 | 20 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
  | 21 | Jakub Puchow | Poland | 85.14 | 21 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
  | 22 | Jerzy Kowalewski | Poland | 85.08 | 22 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
  | 23 | Junji Yuasa | Japan | 84.10 | 23 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
  | 24 | Toshio Otsubo | Japan | 83.18 | 24 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
  | 25 | Bob Eaton | Canada | 82.09 | 25 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
  | 26 | Yosuke Arimitsu | Japan | 81.72 | 26 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
  | 27 | Robin Baskerville | Great Britain | 81.23 | 27 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
  | 28 | David Priestley | Great Britain | 80.30 | 28 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
  | 29 | José Ponce | Cuba | 80.02 | 29 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
  | 30 | Alberto Moreno | Cuba | 78.28 | 30 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
  | 31 | Song Jae-Ung | South Korea | 77.30 | 31 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
  | 32 | Diego Heñao | Colombia | 74.09 | 32 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
  | 33 | Kenneth Sully | Canada | 65.41 | 33 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
  | 34 | Jerry Anderson | Puerto Rico | 65.14 | 34 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
  | 35 | Héctor Bas | Puerto Rico | 47.97 | 35 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
  | - | Edwin Barrundia | Guatemala | DNS | - | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
  