Diving at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Men's synchronized 3 metre springboard

The men's synchronized 3 metre springboard was one of eight diving events included in the Diving at the 2000 Summer Olympics programme and one of the newest four events since 1924.

Men's synchronized 3 metre springboard at the Games of the XXVII Olympiad
Venue	Sydney International Aquatic Centre
Date	28 September 2000
Competitors	16 from 8 nations
Teams	8 pairs
Winning total	365.58 points
Medalists
Xiong Ni, Xiao Hailiang  China Dmitri Sautin, Alexandre Dobroskok  Russia Robert Newbery, Dean Pullar  Australia

The competition was held as a direct final:

Final

28 September — Each pair of divers performed five dives freely chosen from the five diving groups, with two dives limited to a 2.0 degree of difficulty and the others without limitation. Divers could perform different dives during the same dive if both presented the same difficulty degree. The final ranking was determined by the score attained by the pair after all five dives had been performed.

Results

Rank	Nation	Dives					Total
		1	2	3	4	5
	China Xiong Ni Xiao Hailiang	55.80	54.00	79.98	86.70	89.10	365.58
	Russia Dmitri Sautin Alexandre Dobroskok	52.20	52.20	70.68	69.75	85.14	329.97
	Australia Robert Newbery Dean Pullar	48.60	49.20	64.17	84.66	76.23	322.86
4	United States Troy Dumais David Pichler	48.00	46.20	72.00	77.19	77.52	320.91
5	Mexico Fernando Platas Eduardo Rueda	51.60	49.20	72.00	71.10	73.80	317.70
6	France Gilles Emptoz-Lacote Fréderic Piérre	49.20	47.40	68.04	65.25	80.19	310.08
7	Great Britain Tony Ally Mark Shipman	46.20	46.80	63.24	73.80	66.60	296.64
8	Italy Nicola Marconi Donald Miranda	47.40	49.80	72.00	59.52	57.66	286.38

Sources

• Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (SOCOG) (2001). Official Report of the XXVII Olympiad - Volume Three: Results (Diving) (pdf) (in English and French). Sydney, New South Wales: Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (SOCOG). pp. 54–7. ISBN 0-9579616-1-8. OCLC 49687523. Retrieved 21 January 2007.