Diving at the 1952 Summer Olympics – Men's 3 metre springboard

The men's 3 metre springboard, also reported as springboard diving, was one of four diving events on the Diving at the 1952 Summer Olympics programme.[1]

Men's 3 metre springboard
at the Games of the XV Olympiad
Left-right: Anderson, Browning, Clotworthy
Medalists
David Browning  United States
Miller Anderson  United States
Bob Clotworthy  United States

The competition was split into two phases on different days:

  • Preliminary round (27 July) – Divers performed six voluntary dives of limited degrees of difficulty. The eight divers with the highest scores advanced to the final.
  • Final (28 July) – Divers performed six voluntary dives without any limits of difficulty. The final score was the aggregate of the preliminary and final rounds' points.

Results

RankDiverNationPreliminaryFinal
PointsRankPointsRankTotal
David Browning United States89.591115.701205.29
Miller Anderson United States88.002111.842199.84
Bob Clotworthy United States80.643104.283184.92
4Joaquín Capilla Mexico79.42498.914178.33
5Roman Brener Soviet Union69.37796.265165.63
6Milton Busin Brazil67.97887.946155.91
7Anthony Turner Great Britain71.36580.547151.90
8Aleksey Zigalov Soviet Union71.25680.068151.31
9Yoav Raanan Israel67.709Did not advance
10Franz Worisch Austria67.1810Did not advance
11Hans Aderhold Germany67.0911Did not advance
12Werner Sobeck Germany66.7512Did not advance
13Gennady Udalov Soviet Union65.9913Did not advance
14Helge Vasenius Finland65.4114Did not advance
15Katsuichi Mori Japan65.2315Did not advance
16Peter Heatly Great Britain63.3716Did not advance
17Ahmed Kamel Aly Egypt62.9517Did not advance
18Kamal Ali Hassan Egypt62.6818Did not advance
19Rodolfo Perea Mexico62.3619Did not advance
20Peter Elliott Great Britain61.8520Did not advance
20Alberto Capilla Mexico61.8520Did not advance
22Willem Welgemoed South Africa61.6422Did not advance
23Frank Landqvist Sweden60.1123Did not advance
24Ronald Faulds Australia59.9024Did not advance
25Frank Gosling Bermuda59.5725Did not advance
26Raymond Mulinghausen France59.5226Did not advance
27Gunnar Johansson Sweden59.1127Did not advance
28Mickey Johnson Bermuda58.7028Did not advance
29Olavi Heinonen Finland58.0629Did not advance
30Henri Goosen France57.7930Did not advance
31Allan Smith Ceylon55.0031Did not advance
32Lamberto Mari Italy54.4232Did not advance
33Ahmed Fahti Mohamed Hashad Egypt50.0433Did not advance
34Francis Murphy Australia48.4234Did not advance
35Heinz Schaub Switzerland47.1535Did not advance
36Eduardo Fereda Venezuela41.9836Did not advance

The divers were distracted by a photographer in a frogman suit who stationed himself in the pool to take pictures.[2]

References

  1. "Diving at the 1952 Summer Olympics: Springboard, Men". OlyMADMen. Retrieved 15 May 2020.
  2. Wallechinsky, David (1984). The Complete Book of the Olympics. England: Penguin Books. p. 417. ISBN 0140066322.

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