Diving at the 1956 Summer Olympics – Men's 3 metre springboard explained

Event:	Men's 3 metre springboard
Games:	1956 Summer
Gold:	Bob Clotworthy
Goldnoc:	USA
Silver:	Donald Harper
Silvernoc:	USA
Bronze:	Joaquín Capilla
Bronzenoc:	MEX
Prev:	1952
Next:	1960

The men's 3 metre springboard, also reported as springboard diving, was one of four diving events on the Diving at the 1956 Summer Olympics programme.^[1]

The competition was split into two phases held on different days:

• Preliminary round (30 November) – Divers performed five voluntary dives of limited degrees of difficulty and one voluntary dive without limits. The twelve divers with the highest scores advanced to the final.
• Final (1 December) – Divers performed four 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
			90.07	2	69.49	2	159.56
			83.42	5	72.81	1	156.23
			90.24	1	60.45	3	150.69
4			89.20	3	59.35	4	148.55
5			83.06	6	57.58	5	140.64
6			83.82	4	55.32	8	139.14
7			80.54	7	56.99	6	137.53
8			80.45	8	55.63	7	136.08
9			74.68	12	54.66	9	129.34
10			75.64	11	51.68	10	127.32
10			78.27	9	49.05	12	127.32
12			77.77	10	49.10	11	126.87
13			74.60	13	did not advance
14			74.33	14	did not advance
15			73.82	15	did not advance
16			72.65	16	did not advance
17			71.04	17	did not advance
18			70.82	18	did not advance
19			69.18	19	did not advance
20			68.84	20	did not advance
21			67.96	21	did not advance
22			65.14	22	did not advance
23			62.07	23	did not advance
24			58.21	24	did not advance

Sources

• Web site: The Official Report of the Organizing Committee of the XVI Olympiad Melbourne 1956 . 2 January 2007 . The Organizing Committee of the XV Olympiad, Melbourne, 1956 . 1958 . The Organizing Committee of the XV Olympiad, Melbourne, 1956 . p. 607 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080912181829/http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1956/OR1956.pdf . 12 September 2008 .
• Web site: Diving - men's springboard (Melbourne 1956) . 2 January 2007 . Herman de Wael . 24 May 2001.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Diving at the 1956 Summer Olympics: Springboard, Men . OlyMADMen . 16 May 2020.