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
1st place, gold medalist(s) David Browning  United States
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Miller Anderson  United States
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Bob Clotworthy  United States
← 1948
1956 →

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

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Rank Diver Nation Preliminary Final
Points Rank Points Rank Total
  David Browning   United States 89.59 1 115.70 1 205.29
  Miller Anderson   United States 88.00 2 111.84 2 199.84
  Bob Clotworthy   United States 80.64 3 104.28 3 184.92
4 Joaquín Capilla   Mexico 79.42 4 98.91 4 178.33
5 Roman Brener   Soviet Union 69.37 7 96.26 5 165.63
6 Milton Busin   Brazil 67.97 8 87.94 6 155.91
7 Anthony Turner   Great Britain 71.36 5 80.54 7 151.90
8 Aleksey Zigalov   Soviet Union 71.25 6 80.06 8 151.31
9 Yoav Raanan   Israel 67.70 9 did not advance
10 Franz Worisch   Austria 67.18 10 did not advance
11 Hans Aderhold   Germany 67.09 11 did not advance
12 Werner Sobeck   Germany 66.75 12 did not advance
13 Gennady Udalov   Soviet Union 65.99 13 did not advance
14 Helge Vasenius   Finland 65.41 14 did not advance
15 Katsuichi Mori   Japan 65.23 15 did not advance
16 Peter Heatly   Great Britain 63.37 16 did not advance
17 Ahmed Kamel Aly   Egypt 62.95 17 did not advance
18 Kamal Ali Hassan   Egypt 62.68 18 did not advance
19 Rodolfo Perea   Mexico 62.36 19 did not advance
20 Peter Elliott   Great Britain 61.85 20 did not advance
20 Alberto Capilla   Mexico 61.85 20 did not advance
22 Willem Welgemoed   South Africa 61.64 22 did not advance
23 Frank Landqvist   Sweden 60.11 23 did not advance
24 Ronald Faulds   Australia 59.90 24 did not advance
25 Frank Gosling   Bermuda 59.57 25 did not advance
26 Raymond Mulinghausen   France 59.52 26 did not advance
27 Gunnar Johansson   Sweden 59.11 27 did not advance
28 Mickey Johnson   Bermuda 58.70 28 did not advance
29 Olavi Heinonen   Finland 58.06 29 did not advance
30 Henri Goosen   France 57.79 30 did not advance
31 Allan Smith   Ceylon 55.00 31 did not advance
32 Lamberto Mari   Italy 54.42 32 did not advance
33 Ahmed Fahti Mohamed Hashad   Egypt 50.04 33 did not advance
34 Francis Murphy   Australia 48.42 34 did not advance
35 Heinz Schaub   Switzerland 47.15 35 did not advance
36 Eduardo Fereda   Venezuela 41.98 36 did not advance

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

References

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  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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