Diving at the 1980 Summer Olympics – Men's 10 metre platform

Men's 10 metre platform at the Games of the XXII Olympiad
Medalists
Falk Hoffmann  East Germany Vladimir Aleynik  Soviet Union David Ambartsumyan  Soviet Union

Diving at the 1980 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 1980 Summer Olympics programme.

The competition was split into two phases:

1. Preliminary round (27 July)

   Divers performed ten dives. The eight divers with the highest scores advanced to the final.

2. Final (28 July)

   Divers performed another set of ten dives and the score here obtained was combined with half of the preliminary score to determine the final ranking.

Results

Rank	Diver	Preliminary		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank	½ Prel.	Total
	Falk Hoffmann (GDR)	546.12	1	562.590	1	273.060	835.650
	Vladimir Aleynik (URS)	539.07	2	550.170	4	269.535	819.705
	David Ambartsumyan (URS)	518.82	4	558.030	2	259.410	817.440
4	Carlos Girón (MEX)	515.37	5	552.120	3	257.685	809.805
5	Dieter Waskow (GDR)	515.16	6	545.220	5	257.580	802.800
6	Thomas Knuths (GDR)	521.01	3	523.470	7	260.505	783.975
7	Sergey Nemtsanov (URS)	487.20	8	532.260	6	243.600	775.860
8	Niki Stajković (AUT)	493.89	7	478.200	8	246.945	725.145
9	Christopher Snode (GBR)	468.21	9
10	Claus Thomsen (DEN)	467.76	10
11	Salvador Sobrino (MEX)	456.87	11
12	Kenneth Grove (AUS)	447.12	12
13	Alexandru Adrian Bagiu (ROU)	436.02	13
14	Némedi Károly (HUN)	429.75	14
15	Francisco Rueda (MEX)	428.52	15
16	Stephen Foley (AUS)	427.44	16
17	Radoslav Radev (BUL)	406.89	17
18	Petar Georgiev (BUL)	391.32	18
19	Martyn Brown (GBR)	380.91	19
20	Milton Machado (BRA)	373.06	20
21	Cesar Augusto Jiménez (DOM)	369.09	21
22	David Parrington (ZIM)	356.76	22
23	Abdullah Mayouf (KUW)	326.34	23