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

Men's 3 metre springboard at the Games of the XIX Olympiad
Medalists
Bernard Wrightson   United States   Klaus Dibiasi   Italy   Jim Henry   United States

Diving at the 1968 Summer Olympics
3 m springboard		men		women
10 m platform		men		women

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.

The competition was split into two phases:

1. 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.

2. 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.

Results

Rank	Diver	Preliminary		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Total
	Bernard Wrightson (USA)	102.95	3	67.20	1	170.15
	Klaus Dibiasi (ITA)	104.68	2	55.06	4	159.74
	Jim Henry (USA)	105.47	1	52.62	5	158.09
4	Glen Hoard (USA)	99.13	6	56.58	3	155.71
5	Austen Canonica (ITA)	95.92	9	59.78	2	155.70
6	Keith Russell (USA)	100.61	4	51.14	8	151.75
7	Tord Andersson (SWE)	99.58	5	51.92	7	151.50
8	Donald Wagstaff (AUS)	97.84	7	52.34	6	150.18
9	Mikhail Safonov (URS)	92.77	12	48.25	9	141.02
10	Ulrich Reff (FRG)	95.42	11	44.66	10	140.08
11	Vladimir Vasin (URS)	95.73	10	43.86	11	139.59
12	Pentti Koskinen (FIN)	95.99	8	41.81	12	137.80
13	José Robinson (MEX)	91.45	13
14	Jorge Telch (MEX)	90.68	14
15	Jakub Puchow (POL)	88.65	15
16	Norbert Huda (FRG)	88.43	16
17	Italo Salice (ITA)	87.86	17
18	Junji Yuasa (JPN)	86.80	18
19	Frank Carter (GBR)	85.90	19
20	Boris Polulyakh (URS)	84.32	20
21	Jerzy Kowalewski (POL)	79.97	21
22	Song Jae-Ung (KOR)	79.66	22
23	Alberto Moreno (CUB)	76.80	23
24	Salim Barjum (COL)	76.19	24
25	Kenneth Sully (CAN)	74.62	25
26	José Ponce (CUB)	72.72	26
27	Jerry Anderson (PUR)	68.83	27
28	Héctor Bas (PUR)	62.43	28
-	Salvador Pérez (DOM)	DNS	-
-	Hakon Loken (NOR)	DNS	-

References

• Organising Committee of the Games of the XIX Olympiad (October 1969). The Official Report of the Games of the XIX Olympiad Mexico 1968, Volume 3: The Games (pdf) (in French and English). Mexico: The Organising Committee for The Games of the XVIII Olympiad. Retrieved 2007-01-04.