Diving at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Men's 3 metre springboard
| Men's 3 metre springboard at the Games of the XIV Olympiad | ||||||||||
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The men's 3 metre springboard, also reported as springboard diving, was one of four diving events on the diving at the 1948 Summer Olympics programme.
The competition, held on Friday July 30 and on Tuesday August 3, was split into two sets of dives:
- Compulsory dives
- Divers performed five pre-chosen dives (one from each category) – a running straight header forward, backward header with pike, running straight isander-half gainer reverse dive, backward spring and forward dive with pike, and running straight forward twist.
- Facultative dives
- Divers performed five dives of their choice (one from each category and different from the compulsory).
Twenty-six divers from 15 nations competed..
Results
| Rank | Diver | Points |
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| 1 |  Bruce Harlan (USA) | 163.64 |
| 2 | Miller Anderson (USA) | 157.29 |
| 3 | Sammy Lee (USA) | 145.52 |
| 4 | .svg.png){kind=small} Joaquín Capilla (MEX) | 141.79 |
| 5 |  Raymond Mulinghausen (FRA) | 126.55 |
| 6 |  Svante Johansson (SWE) | 120.20 |
| 7 | .svg.png){kind=small} Kamal Ali Hassan (EGY) | 119.90 |
| 8 |  Thomas Christiansen (DEN) | 114.59 |
| 9 |  George Athans (CAN) | 114.13 |
| 10 |  Francis Gosling (BER) | 113.98 |
| 11 | .svg.png){kind=small} Milton Busin (BRA) | 113.86 |
| 12 |  Franz Worisch (AUT) | 112.15 |
| 13 |  Peter Heatly (GBR) | 111.73 |
| 14 | Roger Heinkelé (FRA) | 110.78 |
| 15 | Ismail Ahmed Ramzi (EGY) | 110.18 |
| 16 |  David Norris (AUS) | 109.67 |
| 17 | Diego Mariscal (MEX) | 107.78 |
| 18 | Charles Johnson (GBR) | 105.32 |
| 19 | Wilhelm Lippa (AUT) | 103.18 |
| 20 | Guy Hernandez (FRA) | 102.89 |
| 21 | Gunnar Kemnitz (BRA) | 102.22 |
| 22 | Mohamed Ibrahim (EGY) | 97.52 |
| 23 | Peter Elliott (GBR) | 91.23 |
| 24 |  José Castillo (CUB) | 84.81 |
| 25 |  Ernst Strupler (SUI) | 80.09 |
| 26 |  Günther Mund (CHI) | 68.08 |
References
- sports-reference.com
- Organising Committee for the XIV Olympiad London 1948 (1951). "The Official Report of the Organising Committee for the XIV Olympiad London 1948" (pdf). Organising Committee for the XIV Olympiad London 1948. pp. pp.637–9. Retrieved 2006-12-31.
- Herman de Wael (2001-05-24). "Diving - men's springboard (London 1948)". Retrieved 2006-12-31.
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