Diving at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Women's 10 metre platform
# Diving at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Women's 10 metre platform

The women'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 (1 September)

    Divers performed five dives. The twelve divers with the highest scores advanced to the final.
* Final (2 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 |
| | Ulrika Knape-Lindbergh | Sweden | 218.31 | 2 | 171.69 | 1 | 390.00 |
| | Milena Duchková | Czechoslovakia | 225.00 | 1 | 145.92 | 4 | 370.92 |
| | Marina Janicke | East Germany | 206.73 | 3 | 153.81 | 2 | 360.54 |
| 4 | Janet Ely | United States | 204.33 | 6 | 148.35 | 3 | 352.68 |
| 5 | Micki King | United States | 205.08 | 5 | 141.30 | 5 | 346.38 |
| 6 | Sylvia Fiedler | East Germany | 206.07 | 4 | 135.60 | 8 | 341.67 |
| 7 | Nancy Robertson | Canada | 196.26 | 7 | 137.76 | 6 | 334.02 |
| 8 | Ingeborg Pertmayr | Austria | 185.19 | 12 | 135.84 | 7 | 321.03 |
| 9 | Kathleen Rollo | Canada | 187.62 | 11 | 129.69 | 9 | 317.31 |
| 10 | Alla Selina | Soviet Union | 188.13 | 9 | 126.63 | 10 | 314.76 |
| 11 | Elzbieta Wierniuk | Poland | 188.10 | 10 | 121.98 | 11 | 310.08 |
| 12 | Beverly Williams | Great Britain | 188.58 | 8 | 112.68 | 12 | 301.26 |
| 13 | Nataliya Kuznetsova-Lobanova | Soviet Union | 184.02 | 13 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 14 | Beverly Boys | Canada | 183.99 | 14 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 15 | Maxie Michael | West Germany | 183.48 | 15 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 16 | Melania Decuseara | Romania | 182.82 | 16 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 17 | Regina Krajnow | Poland | 179.79 | 17 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 18 | Helen Koppell | Great Britain | 178.17 | 18 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 19 | Tatyana Shtyreva | Soviet Union | 177.33 | 19 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 20 | Bertha Baraldi | Mexico | 174.21 | 20 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 21 | Cynthia Potter | United States | 173.82 | 21 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 22 | Laura Kivelä | Finland | 172.65 | 22 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 23 | Keiko Otsubo-Osaki | Japan | 168.24 | 23 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 24 | Ursula Sapp-Möckel | West Germany | 162.39 | 24 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 25 | Carmen Belén Núñez | Spain | 157.95 | 25 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 26 | Glenise-Ann Jones | Australia | 157.20 | 26 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 27 | Annita Smith | Netherlands | 156.99 | 27 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
