Diving at the 1976 Summer Olympics – Men's 3 metre springboard

Men's 3 metre springboard
at the Games of the XXI Olympiad
Medalists
   United States
   Italy
   Soviet Union
Diving at the
1976 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 1976 Summer Olympics programme.

The competition was split into two phases:

  1. Preliminary round (21 July)
    Divers performed eleven dives. The eight divers with the highest scores advanced to the final.
  2. Final (22 July)
    Divers performed another set of eleven dives and the score here obtained determined the final ranking.

Results

Rank Diver Preliminary Final
Points Rank Points
 Phil Boggs (USA) 621.51 1 619.05
 Franco Cagnotto (ITA) 542.31 7 570.48
 Aleksandr Kosenkov (URS) 557.52 5 567.24
4  Falk Hoffmann (GDR) 573.00 3 553.53
5  Robert Cragg (USA) 582.99 2 548.19
6  Greg Louganis (USA) 530.85 8 528.96
7  Carlos Girón (MEX) 547.14 6 523.59
8  Klaus Dibiasi (ITA) 572.82 4 516.18
9  Donald Wagstaff (AUS) 529.11 9
10  Norbert Huda (FRG) 518.88 10
11  Boris Koslov (URS) 516.42 11
12  Vyacheslav Strakhov (URS) 510.63 12
13  Frank Taubert (GDR) 493.68 13
14  Dieter Waskow (GDR) 491.70 14
15  Dieter Dörr (FRG) 491.40 15
16  Scott Cranham (CAN) 485.97 16
17  Porfirio Becerril (MEX) 484.41 17
18  Chris Snode (GBR) 479.79 18
19  Skip Phoenix (CAN) 458.10 19
20  Trevor Simpson (GBR) 450.81 20
21  Stephen Foley (AUS) 447.15 21
22  Claudio De Miro (ITA) 446.61 22
23  Ken Armstrong (CAN) 442.47 23
24  Alain Goosen (FRA) 441.36 24
25  Ricardo Camacho (ESP) 408.94 25
26  Sangwal Foengdee (THA) 317.61 26
27  Sulaiman Qabazard (KUW) 216.93 27
28  Ahmet Kizil (TUR) 205.68 28
-  Nelson Suarez (ECU) DNS -
-  Jamal Al-Ghareeb (KUW) DNS -

References