Diving at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's synchronized 3 metre springboard explained

Event:	Men's synchronized 3 metre springboard
Games:	2008 Summer
Venue:	Beijing National Aquatics Center
Date:	13 August
Gold:	Wang Feng Qin Kai
Goldnoc:	CHN
Silver:	Dmitri Sautin Yuriy Kunakov
Silvernoc:	RUS
Bronze:	Illya Kvasha Oleksiy Prygorov
Bronzenoc:	UKR
Prev:	2004
Next:	2012

Men's synchronized 3 metre springboard competition at the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics took place on August 13 at the Beijing National Aquatics Center.

Like all other synchronized diving competitions at the Olympics, only one round of competition was held. Eight pairs of divers competed. Each pair performed five dives, with both divers from the pair diving at the same time.

Nine judges evaluated each dive, with two each judging the performance of the two divers (the execution judges) and five judges evaluating the synchronization of the pair (the synchronization judges). For each dive, four of the nine scores are ignored—the highest and lowest execution scores, and the highest and lowest synchronization scores. The remaining five scores are summed, multiplied by the dive's degree of difficulty, and then multiplied by 0.6 to get a final score for the dive.

Results

Rank	Nation	Dives						Total
		1	2	3	4	5	6
	Wang Feng Qin Kai	57.60	55.80	83.70	89.76	87.72	94.50	469.08
	Dmitri Sautin Yuriy Kunakov	54.60	52.20	80.10	79.56	67.32	88.20	421.98
	Illya Kvasha Oleksiy Pryhorov	51.00	43.20	79.56	78.54	84.00	78.75	415.05
4	Chris Colwill Jevon Tarantino	51.00	50.40	76.26	72.42	85.05	75.60	410.73
5	Alexandre Despatie Arturo Miranda	53.40	49.80	77.40	71.61	77.52	79.56	409.29
6	Pavlo Rozenberg Sascha Klein	50.40	52.20	73.44	76.65	76.65	73.50	402.84
7	Nick Robinson-Baker Ben Swain	51.00	49.20	76.26	67.50	81.90	76.50	402.36
8	Scott Robertson Robert Newbery	50.40	51.60	56.73	82.62	77.70	74.55	393.80