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Platform, Women

Date26 – 27 July 1992
StatusOlympic
LocationPiscina Municipal de Montjuïc, Barcelona
Participants28 from 17 countries
Format10 metre platform.

China’s Fu Mingxia had won the 1990 Asian Games and Goodwill Games before her 12th birthday. She then won the 1991 World Championships on platform. She was so young that the diving authorities changed the rules requiring divers to be 14-years-old during the Olympic year in order to compete. She made that, turning 14-years-old only 20 days after the Olympic platform final. Fu was unchallenged in Barcelona, winning both the qualifying and final rounds by huge margins. She was helped by her optional dives, all of which had a degree of difficulty of 3.0 or higher, with two at 3.2 and one at 3.3. She clinched the title on her penultimate dive, a back 3½ tuck (3.3), scoring 8s and 8.5s to move well ahead of her teammate, Zhu Jinhong. But on the final dive, Zhu missed badly on an inward 3½ tuck, dropping out of the medals, which went to Yelena Miroshina (EUN-silver) and Mary Ellen Clark (USA-bronze).

Clark was the second-oldest competitor in the event and was second after six dives, but then blew an inward 3½ tuck. She would return in 1996 to repeat her bronze medal performance, overcoming difficulty with vertigo. Fu would return to Atlanta and win both diving events, adding a fourth gold medal in the 2000 springboard, and a silver in synchronized springboard. She would also repeat as World Champion on the platform in 1994.

Silver medalist Miroshina never competed internationally after Barcelona. On 18 December 1995 she died after a fall out of her ninth-floor apartment in Moscow, at only 21-years-old. The details are murky, as it is uncertain if this was a suicide or she fell or was pushed.

PosCompetitor(s)NOC
1Fu MingxiaCHNGold
2Yelena MiroshinaEUNSilver
3Mary Ellen ClarkUSABronze
4Zhu JinhongCHN
5Inga AfoninaEUN
6María José AlcaláMEX
7Ellen OwenUSA
8Verónica RibotARG
9Ioana VoicuROU
10Vyninka ArlowAUS
11April AdamsAUS
12Hayley AllenGBR
13 r1/2Macarena AlexandersonMEX
14 r1/2Ute WetzigGER
15 r1/2Clara Elena CiocanROU
16 r1/2Paige GordonCAN
17 r1/2Anne MontminyCAN
18 r1/2Kim Chun-OkPRK
19 r1/2Luisella BiselloITA
20 r1/2Monika KühnGER
21 r1/2Ibolya NagyHUN
22 r1/2Yvonne KöstenbergerSUI
23 r1/2Ryu Un-SilPRK
24 r1/2Tania PatersonNZL
25 r1/2Lesley WardGBR
26 r1/2Yuki MotobuchiJPN
27 r1/2Brigitta CserbaHUN
28 r1/2Silvana NeitzkeBRA

Qualifying (27 July 1992 — 10:00)

Eight dives. Top 12 advanced to the final.

PosCompetitor(s)NOCPoints
1Fu MingxiaCHN361.77Q
2Mary Ellen ClarkUSA329.85Q
3Yelena MiroshinaEUN310.32Q
4María José AlcaláMEX309.39Q
5Ellen OwenUSA299.52Q
6Zhu JinhongCHN297.00Q
7Inga AfoninaEUN293.94Q
8Hayley AllenGBR292.77Q
9Verónica RibotARG292.26Q
10April AdamsAUS290.73Q
11Vyninka ArlowAUS289.14Q
12Ioana VoicuROU288.87Q
13Macarena AlexandersonMEX286.59
14Ute WetzigGER284.13
15Clara Elena CiocanROU283.92
16Paige GordonCAN283.11
17Anne MontminyCAN282.42
18Kim Chun-OkPRK282.36
19Luisella BiselloITA272.19
20Monika KühnGER270.51
21Ibolya NagyHUN269.52
22Yvonne KöstenbergerSUI264.81
23Ryu Un-SilPRK262.56
24Tania PatersonNZL254.04
25Lesley WardGBR242.16
26Yuki MotobuchiJPN239.01
27Brigitta CserbaHUN236.10
28Silvana NeitzkeBRA230.70

Final (27 July 1992 — 15:00)

Eight dives.

PosCompetitor(s)NOCPoints
1Fu MingxiaCHN461.43
2Yelena MiroshinaEUN411.63
3Mary Ellen ClarkUSA401.91
4Zhu JinhongCHN400.56
5Inga AfoninaEUN398.43
6María José AlcaláMEX394.35
7Ellen OwenUSA392.10
8Verónica RibotARG384.03
9Ioana VoicuROU369.87
10Vyninka ArlowAUS365.88
11April AdamsAUS342.39
12Hayley AllenGBR317.85