Diving at the 1936 Summer Olympics – Men's 3 metre springboard

The men's 3 metre springboard, also reported as springboard diving, was one of four diving events on the diving at the 1936 Summer Olympics programme.[1]

Men's 3 metre springboard
at the Games of the XI Olympiad
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Richard Degener  United States
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Marshall Wayne  United States
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Alan Greene  United States
← 1932
1948 →

The competition was split into two sets of dives on separate days:

  1. Compulsory dives (Monday, 10 August)
    Divers performed five pre-chosen dives (one from each category) – a running straight somersault forward, standing header backward with pike, running straight isander-half gainer, standing backward spring and forward somersault with pike, and running pike dive with half-screw forward.
  2. Facultative dives (Tuesday, 11 August)
    Divers performed five dives of their choice (one from each category and different from the compulsory).

Twenty-four divers from 15 nations competed.

Results edit

Place Diver Nation Score
  Richard Degener   United States 163.57
  Marshall Wayne   United States 159.56
  Alan Greene   United States 146.29
4 Tsuneo Shibahara   Japan 144.92
5 Erhard Weiß   Germany 141.21
6 Leo Esser   Germany 137.99
7 Winfried Mahraun   Germany 134.61
8 Tomio Koyanagi   Japan 133.07
9 František Leikert   Czechoslovakia 131.98
10 Branko Ziherl   Yugoslavia 125.26
11 Ismael Ramzi   Egypt 121.67
12 Roger Heinkelé   France 117.72
13 Ilmari Niemeläinen   Finland 116.80
14 Ron Masters   Australia 115.72
15 Hans Haasmann   Netherlands 111.44
15 Josef Nesvadba   Czechoslovakia 111.44
17 Karl Steiner   Austria 109.54
18 László Hidvégi   Hungary 107.49
19 Ahmed Ibrahim Kamel   Egypt 105.02
20 Frederick Hodges   Great Britain 102.98
21 Frédéric Boeni   Switzerland 95.84
22 László Hódi   Hungary 85.42
23 Max Happle   Switzerland 80.24
24 Alfredo Álvarez Calderón   Peru DNF

References edit

  1. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Diving at the 1936 Berlin Summer Games: Men's Springboard". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 4 December 2016. Retrieved 13 May 2020.

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