Diving at the 1980 Summer Olympics – Men's 3 metre springboard

Men's 3 metre springboard at the Games of the XXII Olympiad
Medalists
Aleksandr Portnov   Soviet Union   Carlos Girón   Mexico   Franco Cagnotto   Italy

Diving at the 1980 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 1980 Summer Olympics programme.

The competition was split into two phases:

1. Preliminary round (22 July)

   Divers performed eleven dives. The eight divers with the highest scores advanced to the final.

2. Final (23 July)

   Divers performed another set of eleven dives and the score here obtained was combined with half of the preliminary score to determine the final ranking.

Controversy

As Aleksandr Portnov waited to do a 2 and 1/2 reverse somersault in the springboard final, cheers broke out in three adjoining swimming pool during the closing stages of Salnikov's world record breaking 1,500m swim. The diver delayed his start until the noise had subsided but, as he took his first steps along the board, even greater cheers broke out as Salnikov touched in under 15 minutes. Under the rules Portnov, having started, could not stop before take-off. He crashed badly. On protest to the Swedish referee G.Olander he was allowed to repeat the dive and went ahead again of Mexico's Carlos Girón. Later protests by Mexico against the re-dive and by East Germany that their Falk Hoffmann wanted to re-dive after allegedly being disturbed by photographic flashlights were both turned down by the International Amateur Swimming Federation (FINA). FINA President Javier Ostas of Mexico stated that the decision taken by the Swedish referee was the "correct one. FINA assessed all the Olympic diving events and considers the judging to have been objective". Portnov remained the winner with Giron taking silver and Cagnatto of Italy bronze.

Results

Rank	Diver	Preliminary		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank	½ Prel.	Total
	Aleksandr Portnov (URS)	580.11	2	614.970	1	290.050	905.025
	Carlos Girón (MEX)	580.20	1	602.040	2	290.100	892.140
	Franco Cagnotto (ITA)	556.32	6	593.340	3	278.160	871.500
4	Falk Hoffmann (GDR)	567.78	3	574.620	5	283.890	858.510
5	Aleksandr Kosenkov (URS)	558.90	4	575.670	4	279.450	855.120
6	Christopher Snode (GBR)	557.10	5	565.920	6	278.550	844.470
7	Vyacheslav Troshin (URS)	552.42	7	543.840	7	276.210	820.050
8	Ricardo Camacho (ESP)	532.02	8	483.330	8	266.010	749.340
9	Frank Taubert (GDR)	524.04	9
10	Dieter Waskow (GDR)	522.87	10
11	Steve Foley (AUS)	521.82	11
12	Niki Stajković (AUT)	521.04	12
13	Petar Georgiev (BUL)	504.33	13
14	Francisco Rueda (MEX)	495.63	14
15	Kenneth Grove (AUS)	491.94	15
16	Rolando Ruiz (CUB)	489.24	16
17	Némedi Károly (HUN)	475.17	17
18	Reynaldo Castro (DOM)	469.14	18
19	Roman Godzinski (POL)	462.48	19
20	Jorge Mondragón (MEX)	454.17	20
21	Michael Worisch (AUT)	452.43	21
22	Milton Machado (BRA)	451.17	22
23	Alexandru Adrian Bagiu (ROU)	427.35	23
24	David Parrington (ZIM)	416.67	24

References

• The Official Report of the Games of the XXIInd Olympiad, Moscow 1980 - Volume 3: Participants and Results (pdf). Moscow: Fizkoultura i Sport Publishers. 1981. pp. p. 488. Retrieved 2007-01-09.