| Event: | Men's 3 metre springboard |
| Games: | 1960 Summer |
| Gold: | Gary Tobian |
| Goldnoc: | USA |
| Silver: | Samuel Hall |
| Silvernoc: | USA |
| Bronze: | Juan Botella |
| Bronzenoc: | MEX |
| Prev: | 1956 |
| Next: | 1964 |
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.[1]
The competition was split into three phases:
Divers performed four voluntary dives without limit of degrees of difficulty. The sixteen divers with the highest scores advanced to the semi-finals.
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.
Divers performed three voluntary dives without limit of degrees of difficulty. The final ranking was determined by the combined score from all three rounds.
| Rank | Diver | Nation | Preliminary | Semi-final | Final | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Points | Rank | Points | Rank | Total | Rank | Points | Rank | Total | ||||
| 62.03 | 2 | 45.30 | 3 | 107.33 | 2 | 62.64 | 1 | 170.00 | ||||
| 62.16 | 1 | 45.33 | 2 | 107.49 | 1 | 59.59 | 2 | 167.08 | ||||
| 60.66 | 3 | 46.30 | 1 | 106.96 | 3 | 55.34 | 3 | 162.30 | ||||
| 4 | 54.89 | 6 | 39.78 | 8 | 94.67 | 6 | 55.75 | 4 | 150.42 | |||
| 5 | 53.62 | 8 | 40.61 | 6 | 94.23 | 7 | 49.84 | 5 | 144.07 | |||
| 6 | 55.04 | 5 | 41.45 | 4 | 96.49 | 4 | 47.48 | 6 | 143.97 | |||
| 7 | 52.84 | 12 | 41.24 | 5 | 94.08 | 8 | 46.38 | 7 | 140.46 | |||
| 8 | 55.10 | 4 | 38.81 | 11 | 94.91 | 5 | 39.04 | 8 | 133.95 | |||
| 9 | 53.93 | 7 | 38.54 | 14 | 92.47 | 9 | did not advance | |||||
| 10 | 53.47 | 9 | 38.81 | 11 | 92.28 | 10 | did not advance | |||||
| 11 | 51.80 | 15 | 40.10 | 7 | 91.90 | 11 | did not advance | |||||
| 12 | 53.30 | 10 | 38.56 | 13 | 91.86 | 12 | did not advance | |||||
| 13 | 51.91 | 14 | 39.40 | 9 | 91.31 | 13 | did not advance | |||||
| 14 | 52.36 | 13 | 38.87 | 10 | 91.23 | 14 | did not advance | |||||
| 15 | 53.12 | 11 | 37.61 | 16 | 90.73 | 15 | did not advance | |||||
| 16 | 51.48 | 16 | 37.78 | 15 | 89.26 | 16 | did not advance | |||||
| 17 | 50.87 | 17 | did not advance | |||||||||
| 18 | 50.49 | 18 | did not advance | |||||||||
| 19 | 50.46 | 19 | did not advance | |||||||||
| 20 | 50.23 | 20 | did not advance | |||||||||
| 21 | 49.92 | 21 | did not advance | |||||||||
| 22 | 49.27 | 22 | did not advance | |||||||||
| 23 | 47.51 | 23 | did not advance | |||||||||
| 24 | 46.94 | 24 | did not advance | |||||||||
| 25 | 46.54 | 25 | did not advance | |||||||||
| 26 | 46.10 | 26 | did not advance | |||||||||
| 27 | 43.40 | 27 | did not advance | |||||||||
| 28 | 42.98 | 28 | did not advance | |||||||||
| 29 | 41.43 | 29 | did not advance | |||||||||
| 30 | 41.21 | 30 | did not advance | |||||||||
| 31 | 38.65 | 31 | did not advance | |||||||||
| 32 | 35.79 | 32 | did not advance | |||||||||