Diving at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Men's 3 metre springboard

Men's 3 metre springboard
at the Games of the XVIII Olympiad
Medalists
   United States
   United States
   United States
Diving at the
1964 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 1964 Summer Olympics programme.

The competition was split into two phases:

  1. Preliminary round (12–13 October)
    Divers performed five compulsory dives with limited degrees of difficulty and two voluntary dives without limits. The eight divers with the highest scores advanced to the final.
  2. Final (14 October)
    Divers performed three voluntary dives without limit of degrees of difficulty. The final ranking was determined by the combined score with the preliminary round.

Results

Rank Diver Preliminary Final
Points Rank Points Rank Total
 Kenneth Sitzberger (USA) 98.66 3 61.24 1 159.90
 Frank Gorman (USA) 105.99 1 51.64 2 157.63
 Lawrence Andreasen (USA) 100.31 2 43.46 6 143.77
4  Hans-Dieter Pophal (EUA) 91.16 8 51.42 3 142.58
5  Göran Lundqvist (SWE) 91.77 6 46.88 4 138.65
6  Boris Polulyakh (URS) 92.94 5 45.70 5 138.64
7  Mikhail Safonov (URS) 94.06 4 39.94 8 134.00
8  Vladimir Vasin (URS) 91.24 7 42.24 7 133.48
9  John Candler (GBR) 90.69 9
10  Franco Cagnotto (ITA) 89.54 10
11  Tadao Tosa (JPN) 89.10 11
12  Luis Niño (MEX) 87.87 12
13  Klaus Dibiasi (ITA) 87.68 13
14  Rolf Sperling (EUA) 86.98 14
15  Alvaro Gaxiola (MEX) 85.78 15
16  Kurt Mrkwicka (AUT) 85.72 16
17  Horst Rosenfeldt (EUA) 85.66 17
18  Thomas Dinsley (CAN) 83.02 18
19  Jose Robinson (MEX) 82.42 19
20  Pentti Koskinen (FIN) 82.00 20
21  Toshio Yamano (JPN) 81.74 20
22  Jerry Anderson (PUR) 81.07 22
23  Song Jae-Ung (KOR) 75.10 23
24  Shunsuke Kaneto (JPN) 71.59 24
25  Ansuya Prasad (IND) 69.04 25
26  Manouchehr Fasihi (IRI) 67.20 26
27  Terry Rossiter (RHO) 61.06 27

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