# Diving at the 1972 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 1972 Summer Olympics programme.
The competition was split into two phases:
* Preliminary round (3 September)
    Divers performed seven dives. The twelve divers with the highest scores advanced to the final.
* Final (4 September)
    Divers performed three voluntary dives without limit of degrees of difficulty. The final ranking was determined by the combined score with the preliminary round.

## Results

| Rank | Diver | Nation | Preliminary | Preliminary | Final | Final | Final |
| Rank | Diver | Nation | Points | Rank | Points | Rank | Total |
| | Klaus Dibiasi | Italy | 338.25 | 1 | 165.87 | 4 | 504.12 |
| | Richard Rydze | United States | 302.16 | 5 | 178.59 | 1 | 480.75 |
| | Franco Cagnotto | Italy | 312.93 | 3 | 162.90 | 5 | 475.83 |
| 4 | Lothar Matthes | East Germany | 298.41 | 6 | 167.34 | 3 | 465.75 |
| 5 | David Ambartsumyan | Soviet Union | 314.31 | 2 | 149.25 | 8 | 463.56 |
| 6 | Richard Earley | United States | 287.94 | 12 | 174.51 | 2 | 462.45 |
| 7 | Vladimir Kapyrulin | Soviet Union | 296.40 | 7 | 162.81 | 6 | 459.21 |
| 8 | Carlos Girón | Mexico | 290.37 | 10 | 152.04 | 7 | 442.41 |
| 9 | Michael Finneran | United States | 289.80 | 11 | 140.67 | 11 | 439.47 |
| 10 | Falk Hoffmann | East Germany | 291.54 | 8 | 145.17 | 10 | 436.71 |
| 11 | Donald Wagstaff | Australia | 290.64 | 9 | 145.20 | 9 | 435.84 |
| 12 | Aleksandr Gendrikson | Soviet Union | 305.94 | 4 | 125.10 | 12 | 431.04 |
| 13 | Jacques Deschouwer | France | 287.04 | 13 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 14 | José Robinson | Mexico | 284.58 | 14 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 15 | Porfirio Becerril | Mexico | 282.57 | 15 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 16 | Karl-Heinz Schwemmer | West Germany | 281.55 | 16 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 17 | Jakub Puchow | Poland | 281.34 | 17 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 18 | Niki Stajković | Austria | 280.29 | 18 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 19 | Junji Yuasa | Japan | 276.00 | 19 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 20 | Ron Friesen | Canada | 272.94 | 20 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 21 | Frank Dufficy | Great Britain | 271.77 | 21 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 22 | Andrew Gill | Great Britain | 268.68 | 22 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 23 | Wolfram Ristau | East Germany | 268.59 | 23 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 24 | Bernd Wucherpfennig | West Germany | 267.87 | 24 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 25 | Ion Ganea | Romania | 265.83 | 25 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 26 | Diego Heñao | Colombia | 264.27 | 26 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 27 | Scott Cranham | Canada | 263.52 | 27 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 28 | Brian Wetheridge | Great Britain | 262.59 | 28 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 29 | Kenneth Sully | Canada | 262.26 | 29 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 30 | Klaus Konzorr | West Germany | 260.01 | 30 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 31 | Héctor Bas | Puerto Rico | 254.79 | 31 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 32 | Kenneth Grove | Australia | 254.73 | 32 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 33 | Rudolf Kruspel | Austria | 248.07 | 33 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 34 | Jorge Head | Spain | 243.27 | 34 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 35 | Sandro Rossi | Switzerland | 225.87 | 35 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |