Diving at the 1980 Summer Olympics – Men's 3 metre springboard

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Men's 3 metre springboard
at the Games of the XXII Olympiad
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Aleksandr Portnov  Soviet Union
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Carlos Girón  Mexico
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
Franco Cagnotto
 Italy
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The men's 3 metre springboard, also reported as springboard diving, was one of four diving events on the Diving at the 1980 Summer Olympics programme.[1]

The competition was split into two phases:

  1. Preliminary round (22 July)
    Divers performed eleven dives. The eight divers with the highest scores advanced to the final.
  2. Final (23 July)
    Divers performed another set of eleven dives and the score here obtained was combined with half of the preliminary score to determine the final ranking.

Controversy

As Aleksandr Portnov waited to do a 2 and 1/2 reverse somersault in the springboard final, cheers broke out in three adjoining swimming pool during the closing stages of Salnikov's world record breaking 1,500m swim. The diver delayed his start until the noise had subsided but, as he took his first steps along the board, even greater cheers broke out as Salnikov touched in under 15 minutes. Under the rules Portnov, having started, could not stop before take-off. On protest to the Swedish referee G.Olander he was allowed to repeat the dive and went ahead again of Mexico's

FINA
. FINA President Javier Ostas stated that the decision taken by the Swedish referee was the "correct one”. FINA assessed all the Olympic diving events and considers the judging to have been objective". Portnov remained the winner with Giron taking silver and Cagnotto of Italy bronze.

Results

Rank Diver Nation Preliminary Final
Points Rank Points Rank ½ Prel. Total
1st place, gold medalist(s) Aleksandr Portnov  Soviet Union 580.11 2 614.970 1 290.050 905.025
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Carlos Girón  Mexico 580.20 1 602.040 2 290.100 892.140
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
Franco Cagnotto
 Italy 556.32 6 593.340 3 278.160 871.500
4 Falk Hoffmann  East Germany 567.78 3 574.620 5 283.890 858.510
5 Aleksandr Kosenkov  Soviet Union 558.90 4 575.670 4 279.450 855.120
6
Christopher Snode
 Great Britain 557.10 5 565.920 6 278.550 844.470
7 Vyacheslav Troshin  Soviet Union 552.42 7 543.840 7 276.210 820.050
8 Ricardo Camacho  Spain 532.02 8 483.330 8 266.010 749.340
9 Frank Taubert  East Germany 524.04 9 did not advance
10 Dieter Waskow  East Germany 522.87 10 did not advance
11 Steve Foley  Australia 521.82 11 did not advance
12 Niki Stajković  Austria 521.04 12 did not advance
13 Petar Georgiev  Bulgaria 504.33 13 did not advance
14 Francisco Rueda  Mexico 495.63 14 did not advance
15 Kenneth Grove  Austria 491.94 15 did not advance
16 Rolando Ruiz  Cuba 489.24 16 did not advance
17 Károly Némedi  Hungary 475.17 17 did not advance
18 Reynaldo Castro  Dominican Republic 469.14 18 did not advance
19 Roman Godziński  Poland 462.48 19 did not advance
20 Jorge Mondragón  Mexico 454.17 20 did not advance
21 Michael Worisch  Austria 452.43 21 did not advance
22
Milton Machado
 Brazil 451.17 22 did not advance
23 Alex Bagiu  Romania 427.35 23 did not advance
24 David Parrington  Zimbabwe 416.67 24 did not advance

References

  1. ^ "Diving at the 1980 Summer Olympics: Springboard, Men". Olympedia. Retrieved 20 May 2020.

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