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

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.^[1]

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
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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	Nation	Preliminary		Final
			Points	Rank	Points	Rank	½ Prel.	Total
	Falk Hoffmann	East Germany	546.12	1	562.590	1	273.060	835.650
	Vladimir Aleynik	Soviet Union	539.07	2	550.170	4	269.535	819.705
	David Ambartsumyan	Soviet Union	518.82	4	558.030	2	259.410	817.440
4	Carlos Girón	Mexico	515.37	5	552.120	3	257.685	809.805
5	Dieter Waskow	East Germany	515.16	6	545.220	5	257.580	802.800
6	Thomas Knuths	East Germany	521.01	3	523.470	7	260.505	783.975
7	Sergey Nemtsanov	Soviet Union	487.20	8	532.260	6	243.600	775.860
8	Niki Stajković	Austria	493.89	7	478.200	8	246.945	725.145
9	Christopher Snode	Great Britain	468.21	9	did not advance
10	Claus Thomsen	Denmark	467.76	10	did not advance
11	Salvador Sobrino	Mexico	456.87	11	did not advance
12	Kenneth Grove	Australia	447.12	12	did not advance
13	Alexandru Adrian Bagiu	Romania	436.02	13	did not advance
14	Némedi Károly	Hungary	429.75	14	did not advance
15	Francisco Rueda	Mexico	428.52	15	did not advance
16	Steve Foley	Australia	427.44	16	did not advance
17	Radoslav Radev	Bulgaria	406.89	17	did not advance
18	Petar Georgiev	Bulgaria	391.32	18	did not advance
19	Martyn Brown	Great Britain	380.91	19	did not advance
20	Milton Machado	Brazil	373.06	20	did not advance
21	César Jiménez	Dominican Republic	369.09	21	did not advance
22	David Parrington	Zimbabwe	356.76	22	did not advance
23	Abdullah Mayouf	Kuwait	326.34	23	did not advance