Diving at the 1956 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 1956 Summer Olympics programme.[1]

Men's 3 metre springboard
at the Games of the XVI Olympiad
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Bob Clotworthy  United States
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Donald Harper  United States
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Joaquín Capilla  Mexico
← 1952
1960 →

The competition was split into two phases held on different days:

  • Preliminary round (30 November) – Divers performed five voluntary dives of limited degrees of difficulty and one voluntary dive without limits. The twelve divers with the highest scores advanced to the final.
  • Final (1 December) – Divers performed four voluntary dives without any limits of difficulty. The final score was the aggregate of the preliminary and final rounds' points.

Results

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Rank Diver Nation Preliminary Final
Points Rank Points Rank Total
  Bob Clotworthy   United States 90.07 2 69.49 2 159.56
  Donald Harper   United States 83.42 5 72.81 1 156.23
  Joaquín Capilla   Mexico 90.24 1 60.45 3 150.69
4 Glen Whitten   United States 89.20 3 59.35 4 148.55
5 Gennady Udalov   Soviet Union 83.06 6 57.58 5 140.64
6 Roman Brener   Soviet Union 83.82 4 55.32 8 139.14
7 Günther Mund   Chile 80.54 7 56.99 6 137.53
8 József Gerlach   Hungary 80.45 8 55.63 7 136.08
9 Yury Kasakov   Soviet Union 74.68 12 54.66 9 129.34
10 William Patrick   Canada 75.64 11 51.68 10 127.32
10 Juan Botella   Mexico 78.27 9 49.05 12 127.32
12 Yutaka Baba   Japan 77.77 10 49.10 11 126.87
13 Ferenc Siák   Hungary 74.60 13 did not advance
14 Christian Pire   France 74.33 14 did not advance
15 Helge Vasenius   Finland 73.82 15 did not advance
16 Peter Tarsey   Great Britain 72.65 16 did not advance
17 Arthur Winther   Australia 71.04 17 did not advance
18 Ryo Mabuchi   Japan 70.82 18 did not advance
19 Joseph McCann   Australia 69.18 19 did not advance
20 Ronald Faulds   Australia 68.84 20 did not advance
21 Ray Cann   Great Britain 67.96 21 did not advance
22 Yoav Raanan   Israel 65.14 22 did not advance
23 Fernando Ribeiro   Brazil 62.07 23 did not advance
24 Roy Walsh   Great Britain 58.21 24 did not advance

References

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  1. ^ "Diving at the 1956 Summer Olympics: Springboard, Men". OlyMADMen. Retrieved 16 May 2020.

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