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

Men's 3 metre springboard
at the Games of the XIX Olympiad
Medalists
   United States
   Italy
   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
1st, gold medalist(s)  Bernard Wrightson (USA) 102.95 3 67.20 1 170.15
2nd, silver medalist(s)  Klaus Dibiasi (ITA) 104.68 2 55.06 4 159.74
3rd, bronze medalist(s)  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 Did not advance
14  Jorge Telch (MEX) 90.68 14 Did not advance
15  Jakub Puchow (POL) 88.65 15 Did not advance
16  Norbert Huda (FRG) 88.43 16 Did not advance
17  Italo Salice (ITA) 87.86 17 Did not advance
18  Junji Yuasa (JPN) 86.80 18 Did not advance
19  Frank Carter (GBR) 85.90 19 Did not advance
20  Boris Polulyakh (URS) 84.32 20 Did not advance
21  Jerzy Kowalewski (POL) 79.97 21 Did not advance
22  Song Jae-Ung (KOR) 79.66 22 Did not advance
23  Alberto Moreno (CUB) 76.80 23 Did not advance
24  Salim Barjum (COL) 76.19 24 Did not advance
25  Kenneth Sully (CAN) 74.62 25 Did not advance
26  José Ponce (CUB) 72.72 26 Did not advance
27  Jerry Anderson (PUR) 68.83 27 Did not advance
28  Héctor Bas (PUR) 62.43 28 Did not advance
-  Salvador Pérez (DOM) DNS - Did not advance
-  Hakon Loken (NOR) DNS - Did not advance

References

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