Diving at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Men's 3 metre springboard

Men's 3 metre springboard at the Games of the XXVII Olympiad
Medalists
Xiong Ni   China   Fernando Platas   Mexico   Dmitri Sautin   Russia

Diving at the 2000 Summer Olympics
3 m springboard		men		women
10 m platform		men		women
Synchronized 3 m springboard		men		women
Synchronized 10 m platform		men		women

The men's 3 metre springboard was one of eight diving events included in the Diving at the 2000 Summer Olympics programme.

The competition was split into three phases:

Preliminary round

25 September — Each diver performed a front dive, a back dive, a reverse dive, an inward dive, a twisting dive and a sixth free-choice dive from one of these groups. There were no limitations in degree of difficulty. The 18 divers with the highest total score advanced to the semi-final.

Semi-final

26 September — Each diver performed a front dive, a back dive, a reverse dive, an inward dive and a twisting dive. The overall difficulty degree was limited to 9.5. The 12 divers with the highest combined score from the semi-final and preliminary dives advanced to the final.

Final

26 September — Each diver performed a front dive, a back dive, a reverse dive, an inward dive, a twisting dive and a sixth free-choice dive from one of these groups. There were no limitations in difficulty degree. The final ranking was determined by the combined score from the final and semi-final dives.

Medalists

Gold:	Silver:	Bronze:
Xiong Ni, China	Fernando Platas, Mexico	Dmitri Sautin, Russia

Results

Preliminary round

Rank	Diver	NOC	Points	Qual
1	Xiong Ni	China	457.38	Q
2	Fernando Platas	Mexico	444.60	Q
3	Dmitri Sautin	Russia	444.51	Q
4	Mark Ruiz	United States	429.30	Q
5	Xiao Hailiang	China	419.91	Q
6	Andreas Wels	Germany	414.84	Q
7	Troy Dumais	United States	407.64	Q
8	Dean Pullar	Australia	406.65	Q
9	Robert Newbery	Australia	402.03	Q
10	Tony Ally	Great Britain	393.36	Q
11	Ken Terauchi	Japan	389.88	Q
12	Stefan Ahrens	Germany	385.50	Q
13	Imre Lengyel	Hungary	382.98	Q
14	Cassius Duran	Brazil	382.08	Q
15	Yoendris Salazar	Cuba	377.58	Q
16	Rafael Álvarez	Spain	377.55	Q
17	Alexandre Dobroskok	Russia	377.34	Q
18	Donald Miranda	Italy	377.01	Q
19	Jeff Liberty	Canada	375.06
20	Jukka Piekkanen	Finland	373.41
21	Luis Villarroel	Venezuela	365.97
22	Yeoh Ken Nee	Malaysia	364.38
23	Vyacheslav Khamulkin	Belarus	357.03
24	Abel Sánchez	Peru	356.40
25	Eduard Safonov	Ukraine	355.05
26	Nicola Marconi	Italy	351.12
27	Dmytro Lysenko	Ukraine	345.54
28	Ramón Fumadó	Venezuela	343.89
29	Joel Rodríguez	Mexico	336.51
30	Joona Puhakka	Finland	332.58
31	Richard Frece	Austria	328.68
32	Thomas Bimis	Greece	324.72
33	José Miguel Gil	Spain	318.72
34	Kyung-Min Kwon	South Korea	318.45
35	Gabriel Chereches	Romania	318.27
36	Nikolaos Siranidis	Greece	317.88
37	Erick Fornaris	Cuba	313.86
38	Evan Stewart	Zimbabwe	313.53
39	Jaroslav Makohin	Czech Republic	311.67
40	Frédéric Pierre	France	310.74
41	Juan Urán	Colombia	308.10
42	Alisher Seitov	Kazakhstan	307.62
43	Meerit Insawang	Thailand	306.24
44	Zardo Domenios	Philippines	300.42
45	Jean-Romain Delaloye	Switzerland	292.68
46	Mark Shipman	Great Britain	285.90
47	Yong-Ryong Pak	North Korea	271.47
48	Yuet Yu	Hong Kong	227.64
49	Han-Hung Chen	Chinese Taipei	188.46

Semi-Finals

Semi-Final Round

Rank	Diver	NOC	Points
1	Dmitri Sautin	Russia	240.24
2	Xiao Hailiang	China	235.92
3	Fernando Platas	Mexico	234.36
4	Xiong Ni	China	230.40
5	Mark Ruiz	United States	227.97
6	Ken Terauchi	Japan	226.89
7	Andreas Wels	Germany	224.97
8	Troy Dumais	United States	224.16
9	Dean Pullar	Australia	222.78
10	Imre Lengyel	Hungary	222.60
11	Alexandre Dobroskok	Russia	221.28
12	Stefan Ahrens	Germany	218.67
13	Cassius Duran	Brazil	216.06
14	Donald Miranda	Italy	207.03
15	Tony Ally	Great Britain	206.25
16	Rafael Álvarez	Spain	201.06
17	Yoendris Salazar	Cuba	197.52
18	Robert Newbery	Australia	192.87

Semi-Final Total

Rank	Diver	NOC	Points	Qual
1	Xiong Ni	China	687.78	Q
2	Dmitri Sautin	Russia	684.75	Q
3	Fernando Platas	Mexico	678.96	Q
4	Mark Ruiz	United States	657.27	Q
5	Xiao Hailiang	China	655.83	Q
6	Andreas Wels	Germany	639.81	Q
7	Troy Dumais	United States	631.80	Q
8	Dean Pullar	Australia	629.43	Q
9	Ken Terauchi	Japan	616.77	Q
10	Imre Lengyel	Hungary	605.58	Q
11	Stefan Ahrens	Germany	604.17	Q
12	Tony Ally	Great Britain	599.61	Q
13	Alexandre Dobroskok	Russia	598.62
14	Cassius Duran	Brazil	598.14
15	Robert Newbery	Australia	594.90
16	Donald Miranda	Italy	584.04
17	Rafael Álvarez	Spain	578.61
18	Yoendris Salazar	Cuba	575.10

Final

Final Round

Rank	Diver	NOC	Points
1	Xiong Ni	China	478.32
2	Fernando Platas	Mexico	474.06
3	Dmitri Sautin	Russia	462.96
4	Xiao Hailiang	China	435.12
5	Dean Pullar	Australia	424.62
6	Troy Dumais	United States	418.56
7	Mark Ruiz	United States	410.25
8	Ken Terauchi	Japan	407.58
9	Stefan Ahrens	Germany	400.50
10	Andreas Wels	Germany	391.56
11	Imre Lengyel	Hungary	390.87
12	Tony Ally	Great Britain	377.55

Final Total

Rank	Diver	NOC	Total Points
1	Xiong Ni	China	708.72
2	Fernando Platas	Mexico	708.42
3	Dmitri Sautin	Russia	703.20
4	Xiao Hailiang	China	671.04
5	Dean Pullar	Australia	647.40
6	Troy Dumais	United States	642.72
7	Mark Ruiz	United States	638.22
8	Ken Terauchi	Japan	634.47
9	Stefan Ahrens	Germany	619.17
10	Andreas Wels	Germany	616.53
11	Imre Lengyel	Hungary	613.47
12	Tony Ally	Great Britain	583.80

References

• Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (SOCOG) (2001). Official Report of the XXVII Olympiad - Volume Three: Results (Diving) (pdf) (in English and French). Sydney, New South Wales: Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (SOCOG). pp. 27–40. ISBN 0-9579616-1-8. OCLC 49687523. Retrieved 2007-01-18.