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

Women's 3 metre springboard
at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad
Date15–17 August
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Guo Jingjing  China
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Julia Pakhalina  Russia
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Wu Minxia  China
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Women's 3 meter springboard competition at the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics was held from August 15 to August 17, at the Beijing National Aquatics Center. It is an individual diving competition, with dives performed from a flexible springboard three meters above the surface of the water.

The individual diving competitions all consist of three rounds. In the first, the 30 divers each perform five dives. The top 18 divers advance to the semifinals. Each diver again performs five 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 five 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 7.0 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 Semifinal Final
Points Rank Points Rank Points
1st place, gold medalist(s) Guo Jingjing  China 373.90 1 398.55 1 415.35
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Yulia Pakhalina  Russia 358.15 2 383.50 2 398.60
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Wu Minxia  China 349.45 4 345.30 3 389.85
4 Blythe Hartley  Canada 350.60 3 324.60 10 374.60
5 Tania Cagnotto  Italy 332.90 6 332.40 5 349.20
6 Anna Lindberg  Sweden 294.75 12 324.70 9 342.15
7 Sharleen Stratton  Australia 288.00 13 325.90 8 331.00
8 Nancilea Foster  United States 300.15 11 338.90 4 316.70
9 Christina Loukas  United States 312.60 8 329.00 7 315.70
10 Laura Sánchez  Mexico 334.35 5 314.40 12 312.25
11 Olena Fedorova  Ukraine 323.75 7 329.10 6 298.40
12 Nóra Barta  Hungary 276.15 18 318.15 11 269.25
13 Jennifer Abel  Canada 300.75 10 296.10 13 Did not advance
14 Chantelle Newbery  Australia 284.85 15 294.45 14 Did not advance
15 Ditte Kotzian  Germany 282.80 16 292.25 15 Did not advance
16 Jashia Luna  Mexico 276.85 17 287.35 16 Did not advance
17 Maria Marconi  Italy 286.10 14 277.50 17 Did not advance
18 Katja Dieckow  Germany 302.70 9 263.00 18 Did not advance
19 Svetlana Filippova  Russia 274.20 19 did not advance
20 Diana Isabel Pineda  Colombia 268.85 20 did not advance
21 Elizabeth Jimie  Malaysia 253.50 21 did not advance
21 Leong Mun Yee  Malaysia 253.50 21 did not advance
23 Sheila Mae Perez  Philippines 251.15 23 did not advance
24 Villő Kormos  Hungary 247.95 24 did not advance
25 Rebecca Gallantree  Great Britain 232.75 25 did not advance
26 Hanna Pysmenska  Ukraine 223.50 26 did not advance
27 Veronika Kratochwil  Austria 218.75 27 did not advance
28 Jenna Dreyer  South Africa 210.90 28 did not advance
29 Darya Romenskaya  Belarus 207.00 29 did not advance
30 Jenifer Benitez  Spain 194.05 30 did not advance

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