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

Event:	Men's 3 metre springboard
Games:	1964 Summer
Gold:	Kenneth Sitzberger
Goldnoc:	USA
Silver:	Frank Gorman
Silvernoc:	USA
Bronze:	Lawrence Andreasen
Bronzenoc:	USA
Prev:	1960
Next:	1968

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 program.^[1]

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.

1. 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	Nation	Preliminary		Final
			Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Total
			98.66	3	61.24	1	159.90
			105.99	1	51.64	2	157.63
			100.31	2	43.46	6	143.77
4			91.16	8	51.42	3	142.58
5			91.77	6	46.88	4	138.65
6			92.94	5	45.70	5	138.64
7			94.06	4	39.94	8	134.00
8			91.24	7	42.24	7	133.48
9			90.69	9	did not advance
10			89.54	10	did not advance
11			89.10	11	did not advance
12			87.87	12	did not advance
13			87.68	13	did not advance
14			86.98	14	did not advance
15			85.78	15	did not advance
16			85.72	16	did not advance
17			85.66	17	did not advance
18			83.02	18	did not advance
19			82.42	19	did not advance
20			82.00	20	did not advance
21			81.74	20	did not advance
22			81.07	22	did not advance
23			75.10	23	did not advance
24			71.59	24	did not advance
25			69.04	25	did not advance
26			67.20	26	did not advance
27			61.06	27	did not advance

Sources

• Book: The Organising Committee for The Games of the XVIII Olympiad . The Official Report of The Games of the XVIII Olympiad Tokyo 1964, Volume II . 3 January 2007 . October 1966 . pdf . The Organising Committee for The Games of the XVIII Olympiad . Tokyo . p.549 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110813072948/http://la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1960/OR1960v2.pdf . 13 August 2011 . dead .
• Web site: Diving - men's springboard (Tokyo 1964) . 3 January 2007 . Herman de Wael . 24 May 2001.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Diving at the 1964 Summer Olympics: Springboard, Men . OlyMADMen . 17 May 2020.