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Platform, Women

Date17 – 18 September 1988
StatusOlympic
LocationSu-yeong-jang, Ol-lim-pik Gong-won, Seoul
Participants20 from 14 countries
Format10 metre platform.

The favorites were the Chinese duo of Xu Yanmei, 1987 World Cup champion, and Chen Xiaodan, who had won the McDonald’s Meet in May 1988. Soviet Yelena Miroshina was also highly considered, having set the world’s highest platform score of 508.65 when she was only 12-years-old. But Chen and Miroshina were only 14-years-old in Seoul and would finish fifth and sixth, respectively. Coming into the final dive Yu led American Michele Mitchell, the 1984 silver medalist, by only 0.27 points. Xu did a back 2½ pike with DD of 2.9, scoring four 8s and a 7.5, while Mitchell just missed with a forward 3½ tuck, DD = 2.7, scoring all 7.5s and having to settle for another silver medal, as Xu won the gold.

The bronze medal looked to be Chen’s coming into the final dive. She had a 16.47 lead over Soviet Anzhela Stasyulevich, with American Wendy Lian Williams fifth, over 28 points behind. But Chen went way over on a back 3½ tuck, scoring only 2s and 3s, giving the bronze medal to Williams, who received all 8s on an inward 2½ pike on her final effort. Williams would win another bronze at the 1991 World Championships but never made another Olympic team.

PosCompetitor(s)NOC
1Xu YanmeiCHNGold
2Michele MitchellUSASilver
3Wendy Lian WilliamsUSABronze
4Anzhela StasyulevichURS
5Chen XiaodanCHN
6Yelena MiroshinaURS
7Kamilla GammeNOR
8Silke AbichtGDR
9María José AlcaláMEX
10Debbie FullerCAN
11Ildikó KelemenHUN
12Verónica RibotARG
13 r1/2Wendy Fuller-ReichCAN
14 r1/2Julie KentAUS
15 r1/2Monika KühnFRG
16 r1/2Yuki MotobuchiJPN
17 r1/2Masako AsadaJPN
18 r1/2Carolyn RoscoeGBR
19 r1/2Doris PecherFRG
20 r1/2Kim Eun-HuiKOR

Qualifying (17 September 1988 — 15:00-19:00)

Eight dives. Top 12 advanced to the final.

PosCompetitor(s)NOCPoints
1Chen XiaodanCHN456.45Q
2Michele MitchellUSA426.45Q
3Xu YanmeiCHN426.27Q
4Wendy Lian WilliamsUSA402.54Q
5Anzhela StasyulevichURS401.04Q
6Yelena MiroshinaURS399.27Q
7Silke AbichtGDR393.99Q
8Verónica RibotARG377.70Q
9Debbie FullerCAN366.42Q
10María José AlcaláMEX359.64Q
11Kamilla GammeNOR356.73Q
12Ildikó KelemenHUN355.17Q
13Wendy Fuller-ReichCAN347.73
14Julie KentAUS339.96
15Monika KühnFRG335.88
16Yuki MotobuchiJPN333.45
17Masako AsadaJPN327.93
18Carolyn RoscoeGBR322.35
19Doris PecherFRG310.53
20Kim Eun-HuiKOR284.25

Final (18 September 1988 — 11:00)

Eight dives.

PosCompetitor(s)NOCPoints
1Xu YanmeiCHN445.20
2Michele MitchellUSA436.95
3Wendy Lian WilliamsUSA400.44
4Anzhela StasyulevichURS386.22
5Chen XiaodanCHN384.15
6Yelena MiroshinaURS381.93
7Kamilla GammeNOR366.45
8Silke AbichtGDR350.61
9María José AlcaláMEX349.41
10Debbie FullerCAN340.89
11Ildikó KelemenHUN322.59
12Verónica RibotARG297.18