Diving at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Men's 3 metre springboard

Men's 3 metre springboard
at the Games of the XIV Olympiad
Medalists
   United States
   United States
   United States
Diving at the
1948 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 1948 Summer Olympics programme.

The competition, held on Friday July 30 and on Tuesday August 3, was split into two sets of dives:

  1. Compulsory dives
    Divers performed five pre-chosen dives (one from each category) – a running straight header forward, backward header with pike, running straight isander-half gainer reverse dive, backward spring and forward dive with pike, and running straight forward twist.
  2. Facultative dives
    Divers performed five dives of their choice (one from each category and different from the compulsory).

Twenty-six divers from 15 nations competed..

Results

Rank Diver Points
1  Bruce Harlan (USA) 163.64
2  Miller Anderson (USA) 157.29
3  Sammy Lee (USA) 145.52
4  Joaquín Capilla (MEX) 141.79
5  Raymond Mulinghausen (FRA) 126.55
6  Svante Johansson (SWE) 120.20
7  Kamal Ali Hassan (EGY) 119.90
8  Thomas Christiansen (DEN) 114.59
9  George Athans (CAN) 114.13
10  Francis Gosling (BER) 113.98
11  Milton Busin (BRA) 113.86
12  Franz Worisch (AUT) 112.15
13  Peter Heatly (GBR) 111.73
14  Roger Heinkelé (FRA) 110.78
15  Ismail Ahmed Ramzi (EGY) 110.18
16  David Norris (AUS) 109.67
17  Diego Mariscal (MEX) 107.78
18  Charles Johnson (GBR) 105.32
19  Wilhelm Lippa (AUT) 103.18
20  Guy Hernandez (FRA) 102.89
21  Gunnar Kemnitz (BRA) 102.22
22  Mohamed Ibrahim (EGY) 97.52
23  Peter Elliott (GBR) 91.23
24  José Castillo (CUB) 84.81
25  Ernst Strupler (SUI) 80.09
26  Günther Mund (CHI) 68.08

References