Diving at the 2011 Pan American Games – Men's 3 metre springboard explained

Event:Men's 3 metre springboard
Games:2011
Venue:Scotiabank Aquatics Center
Dates:October 27
Competitors:16
Nations:10
Win Label:Winning score
Gold:Yahel Castillo
Goldnoc:MEX
Silver:Julián Sánchez
Silvernoc:MEX
Bronze:César Castro
Bronzenoc:BRA
Prev:2007
Next:2015

The men's 3 metre springboard competition of the diving events at the 2011 Pan American Games will be held on October 27 at the Scotiabank Aquatics Center.[1] The defending Pan American Games champion is Alexandre Despatie of Canada, who will not compete due to an injury.[2] The winner of the competition (if not already qualified) will advance to compete at the 2012 Summer Olympics to be held in London, Great Britain.

The individual diving competitions all consist of two rounds. In the first, the divers each perform five dives. All divers advance to the advance to the finals. In the final round, the divers perform a final set of five dives, with the scores from those dives (and only those dives) used to determine final ranking.

Seven judges evaluate each dive, giving the diver a score between 0 and 10 with increments of 0.5; scores below 7.0 or above 9.5 are rare. The two highest and two lowest scores from each judge are dropped. The remaining three scores are summed, and multiplied by the degree of difficulty of the dive to give the total score for the dive. Scores from each dive in the round are summed to give the round score.

Schedule

DateTimeRound
October 27, 2011 10:00 Preliminaries
October 27, 2011 19:30 Finals

Results

Green denotes finalists

RankDiverNationalityPreliminary[3] Final[4]
PointsRankPointsRank
Yahel Castillo510.701529.251
474.402480.652
César Castro435.956462.153
4Sebastián Villa449.053458.704
5François Imbeau-Dulac422.808443.055
6Kristian Ipsen434.507429.206
7Edickson Contreras379.8010426.857
8Reuben Ross437.055419.508
9Jorge Luis Pupo360.2512417.759
10Drew Livingston442.454391.7010
11Rene Hernandez383.309353.4011
12Robert Paez374.9011313.8012
13Rafael Quintero326.3513
14Argenis Alvarez273.1014
15Donato Neglia256.1515
Diego CarquinDNF

Notes and References

  1. http://guadalajara2011.org.mx/documentos/boletaje/lista-de-sesiones.pdf Guadalajara 2011 sessions
  2. http://www.radio-canada.ca/sports/PlusSports/2011/08/23/003-despatie-mardi-mexique.shtml Despatie absent
  3. Web site: Men's 3m Springboard Preliminaries. https://web.archive.org/web/20111031171220/http://info.guadalajara2011.org.mx/ENG/DV/DVR173A_DVM00100190000000ENG.htm. dead. October 31, 2011. Guadalajara 2011. 29 October 2011.
  4. Web site: Men's 3m Springboard Final. Guadalajara 2011. 29 October 2011.