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Diving at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's synchronized 10 metre platform

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Women's synchronized 10-metre platform
at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad
VenueBeijing National Aquatics Center
Date12 August
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Wang Xin
Chen Ruolin
 China
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Briony Cole
Melissa Wu
 Australia
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Paola Espinosa
Tatiana Ortiz
 Mexico
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The women's synchronized 10-meter platform competition at the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics took place on August 12 at the Beijing National Aquatics Center.

Like all other synchronized diving competitions at the Olympics, only one round of competition was held. Eight pairs of divers competed. Each pair performed five dives, with both divers from the pair diving at the same time.

Nine judges evaluated each dive, with two each judging the performance of the two divers (the execution judges) and five judges evaluating the synchronization of the pair (the synchronization judges). For each dive, four of the nine scores are ignored—the highest and lowest execution scores and the highest and lowest synchronization scores. The remaining five scores are summed, multiplied by the dive's degree of difficulty, and then multiplied by 0.6 to get a final score for the dive.

Results

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Rank Nation Dives Total
1 2 3 4 5
1st place, gold medalist(s)  China
Wang Xin
Chen Ruolin
55.80 55.20 79.20 82.56 90.78 363.54
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Australia
Briony Cole
Melissa Wu
51.00 53.40 72.00 71.04 87.72 335.16
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Mexico
Paola Espinosa
Tatiana Ortiz
46.80 48.60 77.76 73.26 83.64 330.06
4  Germany
Annett Gamm
Nora Subschinski
50.40 49.80 69.12 60.39 80.58 310.29
5  United States
Mary Beth Dunnichay
Haley Ishimatsu
51.00 51.00 60.30 66.24 80.58 309.12
6  North Korea
Choe Kum-Hui
Kim Un-Hyang
53.40 51.60 61.20 63.36 78.54 308.10
7  Canada
Meaghan Benfeito
Roseline Filion
51.00 51.60 67.50 62.37 73.44 305.91
8  Great Britain
Tonia Couch
Stacie Powell
51.00 48.60 66.60 63.84 73.44 303.48