Diving at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Women's 10 metre platform

The women's 10 metre platform, also reported as high diving, was one of four diving events on the Diving at the 1964 Summer Olympics programme.[1]

Women's 10 metre platform
at the Games of the XVIII Olympiad
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Lesley Bush  United States
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Ingrid Engel-Krämer  United Team of Germany
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Galina Alekseyeva  Soviet Union
← 1960
1968 →

The competition was split into two phases:[2]

  1. Preliminary round (15 October)
    Divers performed three compulsory dives with limited degrees of difficulty and one voluntary dive without limits. The twelve divers with the highest scores advanced to the final.
  2. Final (15 October)
    Divers performed one compulsory dive with limited degrees of difficulty and two voluntary dives without limits. The final ranking was determined by the combined score with the preliminary round.

Results edit

Rank Diver Nation Preliminary Final
Points Rank Points Rank Total
  Lesley Bush   United States 53.78 1 46.02 2 99.80
  Ingrid Krämer   United Team of Germany 52.98 3 45.47 3 98.45
  Galina Alekseyeva   Soviet Union 53.02 2 44.58 4 97.60
4 Linda Cooper   United States 47.80 9 48.50 1 96.30
5 Christiane Lanzke   United Team of Germany 49.69 6 43.23 5 92.92
6 Ingeborg Pertmayr   Austria 49.50 7 43.20 6 92.70
7 Natalya Kuznetsova   Soviet Union 49.89 5 41.02 9 90.91
8 Barbara Talmage   United States 47.28 11 42.32 7 89.60
9 Robyn Bradshaw   Australia 46.58 12 41.58 8 88.16
10 Delia Reinhard   United Team of Germany 47.83 8 38.96 10 86.79
11 Carol Ann Morrow   Canada 47.62 10 38.52 11 86.14
12 Tatyana Dzheneyeva   Soviet Union 51.91 4 33.09 12 85.00
13 Elisabeth Svoboda   Austria 46.10 13 did not advance
14 Frances Cramp   Great Britain 45.48 14 did not advance
15 Keiko Osaki   Japan 45.20 15 did not advance
16 Hatsuko Kawai-Hirose   Japan 45.00 16 did not advance
17 Kirsten Velin   Denmark 43.85 17 did not advance
18 Kumiko Watanabe   Japan 43.50 18 did not advance
19 Joy Newman   Great Britain 42.72 19 did not advance
20 Susan Knight   Australia 41.84 20 did not advance
21 Ulrike Sindelar-Pachowsky   Austria 40.22 21 did not advance
22 Sarie Bezuidenhout   Rhodesia 37.59 22 did not advance
23 Judy Stewart   Canada 36.47 23 did not advance
24 Jeong Sun-ja   South Korea 33.57 24 did not advance

Notes edit

  1. ^ "Diving at the 1964 Summer Olympics: Platform, Women". OlyMADMen. Retrieved 17 May 2020.
  2. ^ Unlike in any other Games, this event was held on a single day and consisted of a maximum total of only seven dives.

References edit