Diving at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's 3 metre springboard

Men's 3 metre springboard at the Games of the XVII Olympiad
Medalists
Gary Tobian   United States   Samuel Hall   United States   Juan Botella   Mexico

Diving at the 1960 Summer Olympics
3 m springboard		men		women
10 m platform		men		women

The men's 3 metre springboard, also reported as 3-metre springboard diving, was one of four diving events on the Diving at the 1960 Summer Olympics programme.

The competition was split into three phases:

1. Preliminary round (27 August)

   Divers performed four voluntary dives without limit of degrees of difficulty. The sixteen divers with the highest scores advanced to the semi-finals.

2. Semi-final (27 August)

   Divers performed three voluntary dives without limit of degrees of difficulty. The eight divers with the highest combined scores from the preliminary round and semi-final advanced to the final.

3. Final (29 August)

   Divers performed three voluntary dives without limit of degrees of difficulty. The final ranking was determined by the combined score from all three rounds.

Results

Rank	Diver	Preliminary		Semi-final				Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Total	Rank	Points	Rank	Total
	Gary Tobian (USA)	62.03	2	45.30	3	107.33	2	62.64	1	170.00
	Samuel Hall (USA)	62.16	1	45.33	2	107.49	1	59.59	2	167.08
	Juan Botella (MEX)	60.66	3	46.30	1	106.96	3	55.34	3	162.30
4	Alvaro Gaxiola (MEX)	54.89	6	39.78	8	94.67	6	55.75	4	150.42
5	Ernest Meissner (CAN)	53.62	8	40.61	6	94.23	7	49.84	5	144.07
6	Lamberto Mari (ITA)	55.04	5	41.45	4	96.49	4	47.48	6	143.97
7	Toshio Yamano (JPN)	52.84	12	41.24	5	94.08	8	46.38	7	140.46
8	Hans-Dieter Pophal (EUA)	55.10	4	38.81	11	94.91	5	39.04	8	133.95
9	Georges Senecot (FRA)	53.93	7	38.54	14	92.47	9
10	Walter Messa (ITA)	53.47	9	38.81	11	92.28	10
11	Rudolf Oertel (EUA)	51.80	15	40.10	7	91.90	11
12	Yury Melnikov (URS)	53.30	10	38.56	13	91.86	12
13	Johnny Hellström (SWE)	51.91	14	39.40	9	91.31	13
14	Göran Lundqvist (SWE)	52.36	13	38.87	10	91.23	14
15	Kurt Mrkwicka (AUT)	53.12	11	37.61	16	90.73	15
16	Graham Deuble (AUS)	51.48	16	37.78	15	89.26	16
17	Vyacheslav Chernyshev (URS)	50.87	17
18	Christian Pire (FRA)	50.49	18
19	Peter Huber (AUT)	50.49	19
20	Peter Squires (GBR)	50.23	20
21	Tomáš Bauer (TCH)	49.92	20
22	Fernando Ribeiro (BRA)	49.27	22
23	Shunsuke Kaneto (JPN)	47.51	23
24	Konkoly János (HUN)	46.94	24
25	Jerzy Kowalewski (POL)	46.54	25
26	Keith Collin (GBR)	46.10	26
27	Kenneth Crotty (AUS)	43.40	27
28	Ahmed Moharran (EGY)	42.98	28
29	Federico Andrade (COL)	41.43	29
30	Dóra József (HUN)	41.21	30
31	Hans Klug (SUI)	38.65	31
32	Ali Mohamed Muheeb (EGY)	35.79	32

References

• The Organizing Committee of the Games of the XVII Olympiad (1960). "The Official Report of the Organizing Committee for the Games of the XVII Olympiad, Rome 1960, Volume II" (PDF). The Organizing Committee of the Games of the XVII Olympiad. pp. pp. 586–8. Archived from the original (pdf) on August 13, 2011. Retrieved 2007-01-02.
• Herman de Wael (2001-05-24). "Diving - men's springboard (Rome 1960)". Retrieved 2007-01-03.