Diving at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's 3 metre springboard

Men's 3 metre springboard
at the Games of the XVII Olympiad
Medalists
   United States
   United States
   Mexico
Diving at the
1960 Summer Olympics
3 m springboard   men   women
10 m platform   men   women

The men's 3 metre springboard, also reported as 3-metre springboard diving, was one of four diving events on the Diving at the 1960 Summer Olympics programme.

The competition was split into three phases:

  1. Preliminary round (27 August)
    Divers performed four voluntary dives without limit of degrees of difficulty. The sixteen divers with the highest scores advanced to the semi-finals.
  2. Semi-final (27 August)
    Divers performed three voluntary dives without limit of degrees of difficulty. The eight divers with the highest combined scores from the preliminary round and semi-final advanced to the final.
  3. Final (29 August)
    Divers performed three voluntary dives without limit of degrees of difficulty. The final ranking was determined by the combined score from all three rounds.

Results

Rank Diver Preliminary Semi-final Final
Points Rank Points Rank Total Rank Points Rank Total
 Gary Tobian (USA) 62.03 2 45.30 3 107.33 2 62.64 1 170.00
 Samuel Hall (USA) 62.16 1 45.33 2 107.49 1 59.59 2 167.08
 Juan Botella (MEX) 60.66 3 46.30 1 106.96 3 55.34 3 162.30
4  Alvaro Gaxiola (MEX) 54.89 6 39.78 8 94.67 6 55.75 4 150.42
5  Ernest Meissner (CAN) 53.62 8 40.61 6 94.23 7 49.84 5 144.07
6  Lamberto Mari (ITA) 55.04 5 41.45 4 96.49 4 47.48 6 143.97
7  Toshio Yamano (JPN) 52.84 12 41.24 5 94.08 8 46.38 7 140.46
8  Hans-Dieter Pophal (EUA) 55.10 4 38.81 11 94.91 5 39.04 8 133.95
9  Georges Senecot (FRA) 53.93 7 38.54 14 92.47 9
10  Walter Messa (ITA) 53.47 9 38.81 11 92.28 10
11  Rudolf Oertel (EUA) 51.80 15 40.10 7 91.90 11
12  Yury Melnikov (URS) 53.30 10 38.56 13 91.86 12
13  Johnny Hellström (SWE) 51.91 14 39.40 9 91.31 13
14  Göran Lundqvist (SWE) 52.36 13 38.87 10 91.23 14
15  Kurt Mrkwicka (AUT) 53.12 11 37.61 16 90.73 15
16  Graham Deuble (AUS) 51.48 16 37.78 15 89.26 16
17  Vyacheslav Chernyshev (URS) 50.87 17
18  Christian Pire (FRA) 50.49 18
19  Peter Huber (AUT) 50.49 19
20  Peter Squires (GBR) 50.23 20
21  Tomáš Bauer (TCH) 49.92 20
22  Fernando Ribeiro (BRA) 49.27 22
23  Shunsuke Kaneto (JPN) 47.51 23
24  Konkoly János (HUN) 46.94 24
25  Jerzy Kowalewski (POL) 46.54 25
26  Keith Collin (GBR) 46.10 26
27  Kenneth Crotty (AUS) 43.40 27
28  Ahmed Moharran (EGY) 42.98 28
29  Federico Andrade (COL) 41.43 29
30  Dóra József (HUN) 41.21 30
31  Hans Klug (SUI) 38.65 31
32  Ali Mohamed Muheeb (EGY) 35.79 32

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