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

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Men's 3 metre springboard
at the Games of the VIII Olympiad
VenueSwimming Stadium Tourelles
Dates16 July (semifinals)
17 July (final)
Competitors17 from 9 nations
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Albert White  United States
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Pete Desjardins  United States
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Clarence Pinkston  United States
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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
1st place, gold medalist(s) Albert White  United States 7 696.4
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Pete Desjardins  United States 8 693.2
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 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

  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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