Diving at the 1952 Summer Olympics – Men's 3 metre springboard explained

Event:	Men's 3 metre springboard
Games:	1952 Summer
Gold:	David Browning
Goldnoc:	USA
Silver:	Miller Anderson
Silvernoc:	USA
Bronze:	Bob Clotworthy
Bronzenoc:	USA
Prev:	1948
Next:	1956

The men's 3 metre springboard, also reported as springboard diving, was one of four diving events on the Diving at the 1952 Summer Olympics programme.^[1]

The competition was split into two phases on different days:

• Preliminary round (27 July) – Divers performed six voluntary dives of limited degrees of difficulty. The eight divers with the highest scores advanced to the final.
• Final (28 July) – Divers performed six voluntary dives without any limits of difficulty. The final score was the aggregate of the preliminary and final rounds' points.

Results

Rank	Diver	Nation	Preliminary		Final
			Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Total
			89.59	1	115.70	1	205.29
			88.00	2	111.84	2	199.84
			80.64	3	104.28	3	184.92
4			79.42	4	98.91	4	178.33
5			69.37	7	96.26	5	165.63
6			67.97	8	87.94	6	155.91
7			71.36	5	80.54	7	151.90
8			71.25	6	80.06	8	151.31
9			67.70	9	did not advance
10			67.18	10	did not advance
11			67.09	11	did not advance
12			66.75	12	did not advance
13			65.99	13	did not advance
14			65.41	14	did not advance
15			65.23	15	did not advance
16			63.37	16	did not advance
17			62.95	17	did not advance
18			62.68	18	did not advance
19			62.36	19	did not advance
20			61.85	20	did not advance
20			61.85	20	did not advance
22			61.64	22	did not advance
23			60.11	23	did not advance
24			59.90	24	did not advance
25			59.57	25	did not advance
26			59.52	26	did not advance
27			59.11	27	did not advance
28			58.70	28	did not advance
29			58.06	29	did not advance
30			57.79	30	did not advance
31			55.00	31	did not advance
32			54.42	32	did not advance
33			50.04	33	did not advance
34			48.42	34	did not advance
35			47.15	35	did not advance
36			41.98	36	did not advance

The divers were distracted by a photographer in a frogman suit who stationed himself in the pool to take pictures.^[2]

Sources

• Diving at the 1952 Helsinki Summer Games: Men's Springboard. sports-reference.com
• Web site: The Official Report of the Organising Committee for the XV Olympiad Helsinki 1952 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080411091045/http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1952/OR1952.pdf . dead . 11 April 2008 . 1 January 2007 . The Organising Committee for the XV Olympiad Helsinki 1952 . 1955 . pdf . The Organising Committee for the XV Olympiad Helsinki 1952 . p. 584 .
• Web site: Diving - men's springboard (Helsinki 1952) . 1 January 2007 . Herman de Wael . 24 May 2001.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Diving at the 1952 Summer Olympics: Springboard, Men . OlyMADMen . 15 May 2020.
2. Book: Wallechinsky . David . The Complete Book of the Olympics . 1984 . Penguin Books . England . 0140066322 . 417 .