Diving at the 1912 Summer Olympics – Men's 3 metre springboard

The men's 3 metre springboard, also known as the spring-board diving competition, was one of four diving events on the diving at the 1912 Summer Olympics programme. The competition was held on Monday 8 July 1912, and Tuesday 9 July 1912. Eighteen divers from seven nations competed.[1]

Men's springboard diving
at the Games of the V Olympiad
VenueStockholm Olympic Stadium
Dates8–9 July
Competitors18 from 7 nations
Medalists
Paul Günther  Germany
Hans Luber  Germany
Kurt Behrens  Germany

Results

The competition was actually held from both 3 metre and 1 metre boards. Divers performed a running plain dive and a running forward somersault from the 1 metre board, a standing plain dive and a running plain dive from the 3 metre board, and three dives of the competitor's choice from the 3 metre board. Five judges scored each diver, giving two results. Each judge gave an ordinal placing for each diver in a group, with the five scores being summed to give a total ordinal points score. The judges also gave scores more closely resembling the modern scoring system.

First round

The two divers who scored the smallest number of points in each group of the first round plus the two best scoring non-qualified divers of all groups advanced to the final. Ordinal placings were used to rank divers within the group, but were not used to determine qualification.

Group 1

PlaceDiverNationPointsScore
1Kurt Behrens Germany680.14
2Paul Günther Germany978.14
3Arthur McAleenan United States1568.02
4Ernst Brandsten Sweden2065.02
5Sven Nylund Sweden2862.60
6Eskil Brodd Sweden2962.60
7Oskar Wetzell Finland3358.70

Group 2

PlaceDiverNationPointsScore
1John Jansson Sweden577.77
2Albert Zürner Germany1074.64
3Ernst Eklund Sweden1653.02
4Carlo Bonfanti Italy1946.81

Group 3

PlaceDiverNationPointsScore
1Hans Luber Germany677.50
2Robert Zimmerman Canada1176.60
3George Gaidzik United States1674.03
4Herbert Pott Great Britain1773.94
5Ernfrid Appelqvist Sweden2562.61
6Axel Runström Sweden3058.42
7Erik Tjäder Sweden3553.56

Final

In the final, ordinal placings were the primary ranking method with dive scores being used only to break ties.

PlaceDiverNationPointsScore
Paul Günther Germany679.23
Hans Luber Germany976.78
Kurt Behrens Germany2273.73
4Albert Zürner Germany2373.33
5Robert Zimmerman Canada2472.54
6Herbert Pott Great Britain2871.45
7John Jansson Sweden3269.64
8George Gaidzik United States3668.01

References

  1. Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Diving at the 1912 Stockholm Summer Games: Men's Springboard". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 4 December 2016. Retrieved 11 May 2020.

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