Diving at the 1968 Summer Olympics – Men's 3 metre springboard explained

Event:	Men's 3 metre springboard
Games:	1968 Summer
Venue:	Alberca Olímpica Francisco Marquéz
Date:	19–20 October 1968 (Preliminary) 20 October 1968 (Final)
Competitors:	28
Nations:	16
Gold:	Bernard Wrightson
Goldnoc:	USA
Silver:	Klaus Dibiasi
Silvernoc:	ITA
Bronze:	Jim Henry
Bronzenoc:	USA
Prev:	1964
Next:	1972

The men's 3 metre springboard, also reported as springboard diving, was one of four diving events on the Diving at the 1968 Summer Olympics programme.^[1] It was the 13th appearance of the event, which has been held at every Olympic Games since the 1908 Summer Olympics.

Competition format

The competition was split into two phases:

Preliminary round (19–20 October)

Divers performed five compulsory dives with limited degrees of difficulty and two voluntary dives without limits. The twelve divers with the highest scores advanced to the final.

Final (20 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.

Schedule

All times are Central Time Zone (UTC-6)

Date	Time	Round
Saturday-Sunday, 19–20 October 1968	10:00-17:00	Preliminary
Sunday, 20 October 1968	17:00	Final

Results

Rank	Diver	Nation	Preliminary		Final
Rank	Diver	Nation	Points	Rank	Dive 1	Dive 2	Dive 3	Points	Rank	Total
			102.95	3	22.96	21.28	22.96	67.20	1	170.15
			104.68	2	17.82	17.36	19.88	55.06	4	159.74
			105.47	1	15.12	21.84	15.66	52.62	5	158.09
4			99.13	6	18.48	17.94	20.16	56.58	3	155.71
5			95.92	9	18.90	18.76	22.12	59.78	2	155.70
6			100.61	4	15.68	14.00	21.46	51.14	8	151.75
7			99.58	5	19.04	16.24	16.64	51.92	7	151.50
8			97.84	7	19.24	17.42	15.68	52.34	6	150.18
9			92.77	12	12.04	17.36	18.85	48.25	9	141.02
10			95.42	11	12.04	16.52	16.10	44.66	10	140.08
11			95.73	10	14.56	11.48	17.82	43.86	11	139.59
12			95.99	8	16.33	16.52	8.96	41.81	12	137.80
13			91.45	13	did not advance
14			90.68	14	did not advance
15			88.65	15	did not advance
16			88.43	16	did not advance
17			87.86	17	did not advance
18			86.80	18	did not advance
19			85.90	19	did not advance
20			84.32	20	did not advance
21			79.97	21	did not advance
22			79.66	22	did not advance
23			76.80	23	did not advance
24			76.19	24	did not advance
25			74.62	25	did not advance
26			72.72	26	did not advance
27			68.83	27	did not advance
28			62.43	28	did not advance
			DNS	-	did not advance
			DNS	-	did not advance

Sources

Book: Organising Committee of the Games of the XIX Olympiad . The Official Report of the Games of the XIX Olympiad Mexico 1968, Volume 3: The Games . 4 January 2007 . October 1969 . pdf . The Organising Committee for The Games of the XVIII Olympiad . Mexico . french, english.

Notes and References

Web site: Diving at the 1968 Summer Olympics: Springboard, Men . Olympedia . 18 May 2020.