Diving at the 2011 Pan American Games – Men's 3 metre springboard

The men's 3 metre springboard competition of the diving events at the 2011 Pan American Games will be held on October 27 at the Scotiabank Aquatics Center.[1] The defending Pan American Games champion is Alexandre Despatie of Canada, who will not compete due to an injury.[2] The winner of the competition (if not already qualified) will advance to compete at the 2012 Summer Olympics to be held in London, Great Britain.[3]

Men's 3 metre springboard at the XVI Pan American Games
Venue	Scotiabank Aquatics Center
Dates	October 27
Competitors	16 from 10 nations
Medalists
Yahel Castillo   Mexico   Julián Sánchez   Mexico   César Castro   Brazil
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Diving at the 2011 Pan American Games
Individual
3 m springboard	men	women
10 m platform	men	women
Synchronized
3 m springboard	men	women
10 m platform	men	women

The individual diving competitions all consist of two rounds. In the first, the divers each perform five dives. All divers advance to the advance to the finals. In the final round, the divers perform a final set of five dives, with the scores from those dives (and only those dives) used to determine final ranking.

Seven judges evaluate each dive, giving the diver a score between 0 and 10 with increments of 0.5; scores below 7.0 or above 9.5 are rare. The two highest and two lowest scores from each judge are dropped. The remaining three scores are summed, and multiplied by the degree of difficulty of the dive to give the total score for the dive. Scores from each dive in the round are summed to give the round score.