Diving at the 1924 Summer Olympics – Men's 3 metre springboard

Men's 3 metre springboard
at the Games of the VIII Olympiad
Men's 3 metre springboard; at the Games of the VIII Olympiad
Venue	Swimming Stadium Tourelles
Dates	16 July (semifinals) ; 17 July (final)
Competitors	17 from 9 nations
Medalists
	← 1920 1928 →

The men's 3 metre springboard, also reported as plongeons du tremplin (English: trampoline diving), was one of five diving events on the diving at the 1924 Summer Olympics programme. The competition was actually held from both 3 metre and 1 metre boards. Divers performed six compulsory dives - standing backward plain dive, standing forward dive with twist, standing inward piked dive with twist, standing reverse piked dive, standing reverse plain dive with twist (3 metre board) and a standing forward somersault piked dive (1 metre board) - two jury-drawn dives and four dives of the competitor's choice for a total of twelve dives. The competition was held on Wednesday 16 July 1924, and Thursday 17 July 1924.^[1]

A point-for-place system was used. For each dive, the divers were ranked according to their dive score and awarded points based on their rank for that dive (the best dive earned 1 point, the next-best 2 points, and so on).

Seventeen divers from nine nations competed.

Results

First round

The three divers who scored the smallest number of points in each group of the first round advanced to the final.

Group 1

Place	Diver	Nation	Points	Score
1	Clarence Pinkston	United States	5	672
2	Dick Eve	Australia	13	522.3
3	Curt Sjöberg	Sweden	15	523
4	Rémy Weil	France	18	497.9
5	Henk Lotgering	Netherlands	25	459.2
6	Eric MacDonald	Great Britain	29	433.2

Group 2

Place	Diver	Nation	Points	Score
1	Albert White	United States	5	681.9
2	Adolf Hellquist	Sweden	13	494.5
3	Henk Hemsing	Netherlands	14	455.2
4	Gregory Matveieff	Great Britain	21	414.1
5	Antoine Jacob	France	23	425.4
6	Arthur Bischoff	Switzerland	29	385

Group 3

Place	Diver	Nation	Points	Score
1	Pete Desjardins	United States	5	662.8
2	Edmund Lindmark	Sweden	10	557
3	Julius Balasz	Czechoslovakia	16	488
4	Paul Raeth	France	19	455.5
5	Atte Lindqvist	Finland	25	398.8

Final

Place	Diver	Nation	Points	Score
	Albert White	United States	7	696.4
	Pete Desjardins	United States	8	693.2
	Clarence Pinkston	United States	15	653
4	Edmund Lindmark	Sweden	22	599.1
5	Dick Eve	Australia	26	564.3
6	Adolf Hellquist	Sweden	30	544.9
7	Curt Sjöberg	Sweden	34	538.3
8	Henk Hemsing	Netherlands	39	490.8
9	Julius Balasz	Czechoslovakia	44	463.1

References

^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Diving at the 1924 Paris Summer Games: Men's Springboard". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 4 December 2016. Retrieved 12 May 2020.

Sources

Comité Olympique Français (1924). "Les Jeux de la VIIIe Olympiade - Rapport Officiel" (PDF). pp. p. 466. Archived from the original (pdf) on 10 April 2008. Retrieved 28 December 2006.
Herman de Wael (3 August 2003). "Diving 1924". Archived from the original on 11 June 2007. Retrieved 28 December 2006.

[1] Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Diving at the 1924 Paris Summer Games: Men's Springboard". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 4 December 2016. Retrieved 12 May 2020.

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