Diving at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's 3 metre springboard

Men's 3 metre springboard
at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad
VenueBeijing National Aquatics Center
Date18–19 August
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) He Chong  China
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Alexandre Despatie  Canada
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Qin Kai  China
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Men's 3 metre springboard competition at the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics was held from August 18 to August 19, at the Beijing National Aquatics Center. It was an individual diving competition, with dives performed from a flexible springboard three metres above the surface of the water.

The individual diving competitions all consist of three rounds. In the first, the 29 divers each perform six dives. The top 18 divers advance to the semifinals. Each diver again performs six dives, and the top 12 divers from among those dives advance to the finals. Preliminary scores are ignored at this point, as only the semifinal scores are considered in advancement. In the final round, the divers perform a final set of six dives, with the scores from those dives (and only those dives) used to determine final ranking.

Seven judges evaluate each dive, giving the diver a score between 0 and 10 with increments of 0.5; scores below 6.0 or above 9.5 are rare. The highest and lowest score from each judge are dropped. The remaining five scores are summed, multiplied by 0.6, and multiplied by the degree of difficulty of the dive to give the total score for the dive. Scores from each dive in the round are summed to give the round score.

Results

Rank Diver Country Preliminary [1] Semifinal [2] Final [3]
Points Rank Points Rank Points
1st place, gold medalist(s) He Chong  China 515.50 1 547.25 1 572.90
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Alexandre Despatie  Canada 453.60 9 518.75 2 536.65
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Qin Kai  China 502.95 2 508.50 3 530.10
4 Dmitry Sautin  Russia 474.85 4 476.35 8 512.65
5 Pavlo Rozenberg  Germany 431.65 16 454.40 12 485.60
6 Troy Dumais  United States 448.40 12 463.15 10 472.50
7 Yahel Castillo  Mexico 480.65 3 504.55 4 462.10
8 Patrick Hausding  Germany 451.65 11 481.5 5 462.05
9 Robert Newbery  Australia 465.15 6 460.35 11 461.05
10 Juan Urán  Colombia 443.05 14 468.90 9 454.60
11 Ken Terauchi  Japan 452.80 10 478.25 7 442.50
12 Chris Colwill  United States 464.75 7 480.95 6 425.90
13 Joona Puhakka  Finland 469.45 5 451.95 13 Did not advance
14 Nicola Marconi  Italy 430.90 18 444.55 14 Did not advance
15 Illya Kvasha  Ukraine 461.65 8 439.55 15 Did not advance
16 Matthew Mitcham  Australia 439.85 15 427.45 16 Did not advance
17 Aleksandr Dobroskok  Russia 431.15 17 412.00 17 Did not advance
18 Reuben Ross  Canada 446.15 13 395.85 18 Did not advance
19 Jorge Betancourt  Cuba 428.25 19 did not advance
20 Javier Illana  Spain 423.90 20 did not advance
21 Ramón Fumadó  Venezuela 419.05 21 did not advance
22 Constantin Blaha  Austria 407.55 22 did not advance
23 Yuriy Shlyakhov  Ukraine 405.05 23 did not advance
24 César Castro  Brazil 400.60 24 did not advance
25 Sergei Kuchmasov  Belarus 399.40 25 did not advance
26 Ben Swain  Great Britain 390.30 26 did not advance
27 Jorge Luis Pupo  Cuba 388.70 27 did not advance
28 Tommaso Marconi  Italy 360.15 28 did not advance
29 Son Seong-cheol  South Korea 353.35 29 did not advance

References

  1. ^ Men's 3m Springboard Preliminary Results, August 18, 2008, archived from the original on 2008-08-28, retrieved 2008-08-18
  2. ^ Men's 3m Springboard Semifinal Results, August 18, 2008, archived from the original on September 2, 2008, retrieved 2008-08-18
  3. ^ Men's 3m Springboard Final Results, August 18, 2008, archived from the original on August 22, 2008, retrieved 2008-08-18