Diving at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Men's 3 metre springboard

Men's 3 metre springboard
at the Games of the XXIV Olympiad
Medalists
  Greg Louganis   United States
  Tan Liangde   China
  Li Deliang   China
«1984 1992»
Diving at the
1988 Summer Olympics
3 m springboard   men   women
10 m platform   men   women

The men's 3 metre springboard, also reported as springboard diving, was one of four diving events on the Diving at the 1988 Summer Olympics programme. Memorably, Greg Louganis managed to complete the preliminary round third, after hitting his head on the springboard while performing a reverse 2½ pike, sufferring a concussion, and continued to the finals to win the gold medal.

A historic score was also estabilished by Hong Kong athlete Wong Kin-chung, who jumped right after Louganis' injury, and unnerved by the event did a wrong dive that earned him the first zero score ever in the Olympics.

The competition was split into two phases:

  1. Preliminary round (19 September)
    Divers performed eleven dives. The twelve divers with the highest scores advanced to the final.
  2. Final (20 September)
    Divers performed another set of eleven dives and the score here obtained determined the final ranking.

Results

Rank Diver Preliminary Final
Points Rank Points
 Greg Louganis (USA) 629.67 3 730.80
 Tan Liangde (CHN) 682.65 1 704.88
 Li Deliang (CHN) 607.77 4 665.28
4  Albin Killat (FRG) 642.60 2 661.47
5  Mark Bradshaw (USA) 588.15 7 642.99
6  Jorge Mondragón (MEX) 594.36 5 616.02
7  Jesús Mena (MEX) 581.01 8 598.77
8  Edwin Jongejans (NED) 591.45 6 588.33
9  Niki Stajković (AUT) 579.63 9 570.60
10  Aleksandr Portnov (URS) 561.81 12 563.37
11  Keita Kaneto (JPN) 577.50 10 562.05
12  Valery Goncharov (URS) 570.63 11 554.16
13  Massimo Castellani (ITA) 553.74 13
14  Joakim Andersson (SWE) 549.99 14
15  Tom Lemaire (BEL) 549.09 15
16  Piero Italiani (ITA) 542.67 16
17  Larry Flewwelling (CAN) 541.14 17
18  Isao Yamagishi (JPN) 540.72 18
19  Erich Pils (AUT) 532.92 19
20  David Bédard (CAN) 532.62 20
21  Willi Meyer (FRG) 511.98 21
22  Juha Ovaskainen (FIN) 500.76 22
23  Graeme Banks (AUS) 499.41 23
24  Jérôme Nalliod (FRA) 496.17 24
25  José Miguel Gil (ESP) 483.12 25
26  Graham Morris (GBR) 478.74 26
27  Tomasz Rossa (POL) 475.44 27
28  Russell Butler (AUS) 470.19 28
29  Robert Morgan (GBR) 457.65 29
30  Abraham Suárez (ECU) 446.92 30
31  Majed Altaqi (KUW) 387.60 31
32  Sun-Gee Lee (KOR) 362.58 32
33  Christopher Honey (BAR) 347.22 33
34  Kei Shan Tang (HKG) 298.08 34
35  Kin Chung Wong (HKG) 263.16 35

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